P Flashcards
Parsimonious
Cheap
Frugal
Palliative
Conciliatory
Soothing
Patrician
N
A member of the upper class
Patronizing
Condescending
Look down on others
Paucity
Dearth
Pecuniary
Monetary
Related to money
Pedantic
Neg conn
Showing off trivial book learning
Penitent
Contrite
Penuruious
1 In poverty
2 excessively frugal
Penury
Poverty
Perfidious
Treacherous
Tending to betray
Pernicious
Subtlety Harmful, you’re often not aware
Pervasive
Penetrating
Pithy
Full of meaning
Placate
Appease
Conciliate
Plutocracy
Rule by wealthy
Poignant
Pricks your emotions
Polarize
Divide into two groups.
V or A
Portentous
Describes an augur of an ominous future event.
Potentate
PO ten tate
Ruler not bound by the rules, omnipotent
Preponderance
- Plethora, great amount
- Superiority in wealth and influence
- Superiority in weight
Prerogative
The special right or privilege of a specific group.
Suffrage is prerogative of white males
Prescience
The power to Forsee the future
Prevaricate
V
To lie or mislead
To be intentionally ambiguous with regard to a lie