Deck 34

Question 1

privation

Answer 1

lack of comforts or necessities; poverty

Question 2

prodigal

Answer 2

wastefully extravagant

Question 3

prodigious

Answer 3

extraordinary; enormous

Question 4

profane

Answer 4

not having to do with religion, not sacred, irreverent; blasphemous

Question 5

profess

Answer 5

to declare; to declare falsely or pretend

Question 6

proficient

Answer 6

thoroughly competent; skillful

Question 7

profligate

Answer 7

extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral

Question 8

profound

Answer 8

• deep

- profound understanding is deep understanding

Question 9

progeny

Answer 9

offspring; descendants

Question 10

proletariat

Answer 10

the industrial working class

Question 11

promulgate

Answer 11

to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something

Question 12

propagate

Answer 12

to reproduce; to multiply; to spread or disseminate

Question 13

propensity

Answer 13

a natural inclination or tendency; a predilection

Question 14

propitious

Answer 14

marked by favorable signs or conditions

Question 15

proprietary

Answer 15

characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property

Question 16

propound

Answer 16

to set forth or propose; to offer for consideration

Question 17

propriety

Answer 17

properness; good manners

Question 18

prosaic

Answer 18

dull; unimaginative; like prose (as opposed to poetry)

Question 19

proscribe

Answer 19

to outlaw; to prohibit

Question 20

proselytize

Answer 20

to convert (someone) to another religion or doctrine

Question 21

protege

Answer 21

a person under the care of someone interested in his welfare or career

Question 22

protract

Answer 22

to prolong

Question 23

provident

Answer 23

preparing for the future; providing for the future; frugal

Question 24

provincial

Answer 24

limited in outlook to one’s own small corner of the world; narrow

Question 25

provisional

Answer 25

conditional; temporary; tentative