Derivatives 100-125

Question 1

Perspicacity

Answer 1

“Keenness,” shrewdness, insight, sagacity

Question 2

Pertinacious

Answer 2

Enduring, persistent, persevering

Question 3

Pithy

Answer 3

Witty, full of substance or significance, strong, vigorous

Question 4

Platitude

Answer 4

Meaningless saying, not genuine

Question 5

Pernicious

Answer 5

damaging, harmful, ruinous, deadly

Question 6

Portent

Answer 6

(n) Omen

Question 7

Precocious

Answer 7

(adj) mature at an early age

Question 8

Prescient

Answer 8

(adj) prophetic, predicting the future, seeing ahead

Question 9

Primeval

Answer 9

(adj) ancient, earliest time, “the first age”

Question 10

Probity

Answer 10

(n) integrity, scruples, strong moral principles

Question 11

Proclivity

Answer 11

(N) a tendency towards, a talent, predisposition (=propensity)

Question 12

Promulgate

Answer 12

(V) to cause to come forward, to make known, to spread publicly

Question 13

Propensity

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(N) an inclination, a tendency (=proclivity)

Question 14

Propitious

Answer 14

(Adj) favorable, gracious

Question 15

Prosaic

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(Adj) straightforward, conventional, dull, not flowery

Question 16

Proscribe

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(V) - to write forth, proclaim, outlaw, banish, to claim you cannot do something

Question 17

Protean

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(adj) - easily changing, able to change frequently

Question 18

Puerile

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(adj) - boyish

Question 19

Pugnacious

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(adj) - aggressive

Question 20

Pulcritude

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(n) - beauty, state of being beautiful

Question 21

Punctilious

Answer 21

Showing attention to detail, meticulous, perfectionist

Question 22

Quagmire

Answer 22

Puzzling

Question 23

Querulous

Answer 23

Full of complaint, griping

Question 24

Quixotic

Answer 24

Idealistic, impractical, romantic

Question 25

Rancor

Answer 25

Bitterness