Day 5 Flashcards
1
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peon
A
landless agricultural worker
bond servant
2
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perdition
A
damnation, complete ruin
3
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peregrination
A
journey
4
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peremptory
A
demanding and leaving no choice
5
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perennial
A
something long-lasting
6
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perfidious
A
treacherous, disloyal
7
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perfunctory
A
superficial, not thorough, lacking interest or enthusiasm
8
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peripatetic
A
traveling about, moving from place to place
9
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perquisite
A
any gain above stipulated salary
10
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perspicacious
A
having inisight
11
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perspicuity
A
clearness of expression
12
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perspicuous
A
plainly expressed
13
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pertinacious
A
stubborn or persistent
14
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pestilential
A
causing plague, baneful
15
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petulant
A
touchy and peevish
16
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philistine
A
narrow minded person
17
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phlegmatic
A
calm and not easily disturbed
18
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piquant
A
pleasantly tart tasting
19
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plaintive
A
mournful
20
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platitude
A
trite remark
21
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plaudit
A
enthusiastic approval
22
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plenary
A
complete and full
23
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plenitude
A
abundance, completeness
24
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plumb
A
to examine critically in order to understand
vertical
25
polemical
aggressive in verbal attack, disputatious
26
plutocracy
society ruled by the wealthy
27
polity
form of government of nation or state
28
portend
foretell or presage
29
portent
sign or omen
30
practicable
feasible
31
precipitate
rash or premature
32
prefatory
introductory
33
preponderance
superiority of power, quantity, etc.
34
presage
to foretell
35
prescience
ability to foretell future
36
presentiment
anticipatory fear
37
preternatural
beoynd that which is normal in nature
38
prevaricate
lie
39
privation
hardship or want
40
probity
uprightness or incorruptibility
41
proclivity
inclination
42
profligate
dissipated, wasteful, wildly immoral
43
progenitor
ancestor
44
prognosticate
predict
45
prolixity
tedious wordiness
46
promulgate
proclaim a doctrine or law
47
prophylactic
used to prevent disease
48
propitiate
to appease
49
propitious
favorable
50
propound
to put forth for analysis
51
propriety
fitness or correct conduct
52
prosaic
dull and unimaginative, matter-of-fact
53
proscribe
to ostracize or banish
54
proselytize
to induce someone to convert to a religion or belief
55
protean
versatile, able to take on many forms
56
prevenance
origin or source or something
57
provisional
tentative
58
proviso
stipulation
59
puerile
childish
60
pugnacity
combativeness
61
pulchritude
beauty
62
punctilious
stressing nicities of conduct or form
minutely attentive
63
punitive
punishing
64
purport
intention or meaning
65
pusillanimous
cowardly or fainthearted
66
quail
to cower or lose heart
67
qualified
limited or restricted
68
quarry
victim or object of a hunt
69
quash
subdue
70
querulous
fretful or whining
71
quiescent
at rest or dormant
72
quintessence
purest and highest embodiment
73
quixotic
idealistic but impractical
74
quotidian
daily or commonplace
75
ramify
to divide into branches or subdivisions
76
rankle
to irritate or fester
77
rapacious
excessively grasping
plundering
78
rarefied
made less dense
79
ratiocination
reasoning
80
raucous
harsh and shrill
disorderly and boisterous
81
reactionary
opposing progress
82
recalcitrant
obstinately stubborn
83
recant
disclaim or disavow
84
recapitulate
to summarize
85
recidivism
habitual return to crime
86
recondite
abstruse, profound, secret
87
recourse
resorting to help when in trouble
88
recrimination
counter charges
89
rectitude
uprightness
90
redoubtable
formidable
91
redress
remedy
92
refactory
stubborn, unmanageable
93
refute
disprove
94
relegate
banish to an inferior position
95
remunerative
compensating or rewarding
96
renege
to deny, to go back on
97
repartee
clever reply
98
replete
filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed
99
reprobate
person hardened in sin
100
reprove
censure or rebuke
101
repudiate
to disown or disavow
102
requite
to repay or revenge
103
restitution
reparation
104
restive
restlessly impatient
105
resumption
taking upagain
106
retiring
most or shy
107
retroactive
taking effect before its enactment
108
rhapsodize
to speak or white in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner
109
rout
stampede or drive out
110
sacrosanct
most sacred
111
sagacious
perceptive or shrewd
112
sanctimonious
displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
113
sanguinary
bloody
114
sanguine
cheerful or hopeful
115
sardonic
disdainful or sarcastic, cynical
116
scintill
shred, least bit
117
scotch
stamp out
118
secrete
hide away o cache
119
sedition
resistance to authority
120
sedulous
diligent
121
seminal
influencing future developments
