Deck 24

Question 1

Passé

Answer 1

No longer fashionable, out of date

Question 2

Patrimony

Answer 2

Inherited from the father; heritage

Estate or property belonging by ancient endowment

Question 3

Pecuniary

Answer 3

Relating to money

Question 4

Pell-mell

Answer 4

In a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner

Recklessly hasty or disorganized

Question 5

Pellucid

Answer 5

Translucently clear; easily understood

Question 6

Penitential

Answer 6

Expressing penitence/penance (voluntary self-punishment as repentance for wrongdoing)

Question 7

Pepper (v.)

Answer 7

Cover or fill with liberal amount of scattered items
Hit repeatedly with small missiles/gunshots
Inflict severe punishment/suffering

Question 8

Peppery

Answer 8

Irritable and sharp-tongued

Question 9

Perfidy

Answer 9

Deceitfulness; untrustworthiness

Question 10

Perpetuity

Answer 10

State or quality of lasting forever

Question 11

Perquisites

Answer 11

Thing regarded as special right or privilege as result of one’s position; perk

Question 12

Pert

Answer 12

(Of a young girl/woman) Attractively lively or cheeky

Attractive because neat and jaunty

Question 13

Phased in

Answer 13

Introduced into gradually

Question 14

Philippic

Answer 14

Bitter attack or denunciation

Question 15

Pidgins

Answer 15

Simplified form of language in order to communicate, as for people not sharing common language

Question 16

Piecemeal

Answer 16

Bit-by-bit, gradually, slowly, in stages

Question 17

Pilfering

Answer 17

Stealing

Question 18

Piety

Answer 18

Quality of being religious or reverent

Belief or POV accepted with unthinking conventional reverence

Question 19

Pine

Answer 19

Suffer mental or physical decline

Miss and long for the return of

Question 20

Plangent

Answer 20

Loud, reverberating, and often melancholy