NSF regionals vocabulary f28 Flashcards
Promulgate
To promote or make widely known
Pronto
Promptly, quickly
Propensity
A inclination or natural tendency
Propinquity
Nearness in place, very close
Props
A object used in a play or dance
Prosaic
Commonplace, dull
Prostrate
Lying stretched out on the ground
Providence
The foreseeing of god and guidance of god
Proxy
The authority of representing someone else
Puckish
Playful in a mischievous way
Purchase
To buy with a form of money
Purple patch
A run of success or good luck
Pyre
A heap of wood used for burning a corpse
Quagmire
A soft boggy area of land
Quaint
Attractively old fashioned or unusual
Quicksilver
The metallic element mercury
Quintessence
The most pure essence of a substance, the
most perfect or typical example of a class
Quintile
A aspect of 72 degrees a fifth of circle, five
Quirk
A peculiarity of action or behavior, weird
Raft
A flat buoyant used for platform made of
rubber
Rally
To bring into order again, to come together to
make an effort
Ramble
To walk without a route
Ramification
A related or derived subject, a branch
Rampart
A broad elevation or a mound of earth raised
as fortification around a place
Randy
Rude or aggressive
Rank
A position in a class or place or a competition
Rapt
Completely fascinated by what one is seeing
or hearing
Ratchet
A toothed bar with which a pawl engages
Reactionary
Opposing political or social liberalization
Ream
A standard quantity of paper (500) sheets of
paper, a large quantity
