Group6 Flashcards
Quibble
To argue over insignificant and irrelevant details
Quiescent
Inactive; still
Qualm
Sudden feeling of faintness or nausea; uneasy feeling about the rightness of actions
Qualified
Limited, restricted
Quail
Cower (crouch down in fear)
Quagmire
Marsh; difficult situation
Pusillanimous
Cowardly
Purport
Profess, suppose, claim
Pungent
Sharp or strong in smell or taste; penetrating, caustic; to the point
Prohibitive
So high as to prevent the purchase or use of
Propensity
Inclination, tendency
Propitiate
To win over, appease
Libation
Pouring out a drink as offering to a deity
Contagion
Spread of a harmful idea or practice (or disease)
Propriety
Correct conduct; fitness
Proscribe
To condemn, forbid, outlaw
Provident
Providing future needs, frugal
Puissant
Powerful
Punctilious
Careful in observing rules if behaviour or ceremony
Premonition
Forewarning, presentiment
Presage
To foretell, indicate in advance
Presumptuous
Rude, improperly bold, readiness to presume
Preternatural
Beyond the normal course of nature; supernatural
Prevaricate
To quibble; evade the truth
Pristine
Uncorrupted
Probity
Honesty; high-mindedness
Prodigal
Wasteful, extravagant, lavish
Prate
To talk idly, chatter
Prattle
Meaningless, foolish talk
Preamble
Preliminary statement
Precarious
Uncertain
Precept
Principle, law
Precipitate
To cause to happen, throw down from a height
Precursor
Forerunner, predecessor
Preempt
To supersede, to appropriate for oneself
Prehensile
Capable of grasping
Platitude
Stale, overused expression
Platonic
Spiritual, w/I sensual desire
Plethora
Excess, overabundance