Day 5 Flashcards
peon
landless agricultural worker
bond servant
perdition
damnation, complete ruin
peregrination
journey
peremptory
demanding and leaving no choice
perennial
something long-lasting
perfidious
treacherous, disloyal
perfunctory
superficial, not thorough, lacking interest or enthusiasm
peripatetic
traveling about, moving from place to place
perquisite
any gain above stipulated salary
perspicacious
having inisight
perspicuity
clearness of expression
perspicuous
plainly expressed
pertinacious
stubborn or persistent
pestilential
causing plague, baneful
petulant
touchy and peevish
philistine
narrow minded person
phlegmatic
calm and not easily disturbed
piquant
pleasantly tart tasting
plaintive
mournful
platitude
trite remark
plaudit
enthusiastic approval
plenary
complete and full
plenitude
abundance, completeness
plumb
to examine critically in order to understand
vertical
polemical
aggressive in verbal attack, disputatious
plutocracy
society ruled by the wealthy
polity
form of government of nation or state
portend
foretell or presage
portent
sign or omen
practicable
feasible
precipitate
rash or premature
prefatory
introductory
preponderance
superiority of power, quantity, etc.
presage
to foretell
prescience
ability to foretell future
presentiment
anticipatory fear
preternatural
beoynd that which is normal in nature
prevaricate
lie
privation
hardship or want
probity
uprightness or incorruptibility
proclivity
inclination
profligate
dissipated, wasteful, wildly immoral
progenitor
ancestor
prognosticate
predict
prolixity
tedious wordiness
promulgate
proclaim a doctrine or law
prophylactic
used to prevent disease
propitiate
to appease