List 21 Flashcards
Pilfer
To steal in small amounts
Pigment
颜料
Pillory
被示众嘲弄
Pinnacle
The highest point of achievement
Pinpoint
Located with extreme precision
Piquant
Spicy, provocative
Pique
To arouse anger
Pithy
Precisely meaningful, forth full and brief
Pittance
A small allownance
Pixel
像素
Placate
To soothe by concession 通过让步平息抚慰
Placebo
安慰剂
Plagiarize
To steal the ideas of another and pass off as one’s own
Plasticity
Capacity of being molded or altered
Plateau
A relatively stable period
Platitude
陈词滥调
Plausible
Superficially reasonable but often specious
Pleat
Fold,打褶
Plentitude
An abundance
Plethora
Excess,abundance
Pliable
Supple enough to bend freely without breaking
Pliant
顺从的
Plight
A bad and unfortunate situation
Plodding
To walk heavily or slowly
Pluck
Daring in the face of difficulty
Plumb
用铅锤测定深度,exactly vertical
Plummet
To decline suddenly
Plump
Chubby, fat
Plunge
To descend suddenly 突然下降
Plutocracy
Government by the wealthy
Podiatrist
足病医生
Polemic
A controversial argument
Polished
Cultured
Politic
精明能干的
Pollster
民意测验专家
Pompous
浮夸的,傲慢的
Ponderable
Considerable enough to be assessed值得考虑的
Ponderous
Of very great weight
Pontificate
To speak in a pompous or dogmatic way
Porous
多孔可渗透的
Portentous
Full of unspecifiable significance
Poseur
An insincere person
Posit
To assume as true
Posture
To assume a pretended attitude故作姿态
Potable
Suitable for drinking
Potboiler
粗制滥造的文艺作品
Potentate
One who has power to rule over others
Potentials
To make more active
Pout
噘嘴
Practitioner
One who practices a profession
Prairie
大草原
Prate
To talk long and idly
Preach
布道
Precarious
Dangerously lacking in stability
Precedent
An earlier occurrence of something similar
Precipice
悬崖
Precipitate
To cause to happen
Precipitation
降水
Precipitous
非常陡峭的
Preclude
To make impossible, prevent
Predecessor
前任,先辈
Predilection
爱好
Preeminent
Having paramount rank,outstanding
Preempt
取得优先权
Preen
整理羽毛,打扮
Preface
序言
Pregnant
Full of meaning
Premeditate
To think beforehand
Preoccupation
Extreme concern with something
Preponderant
Having superior importance
Prepossessing
Pleasing
Preposterous
Contrary to nature , common sense, absurd
Presage
预言
Prescience
Foresight
Prescription
处方
Preservative
防腐剂
Prestige
The level of respect
Presumptuous
放肆的,冒昧的
Pretense
The act of pretending
Preternatural
Surpassing the normal
Prevail
To be greater in strength
Prevalent
Widely or commonly occurring
Prevaricate
To stay from or evade the truth
Primordial
Original
Primp
To dress in a careful manner