P Flashcards

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Parsimonious

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Cheap

Frugal

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Palliative

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Conciliatory

Soothing

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Patrician

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A member of the upper class

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Patronizing

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Condescending

Look down on others

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Paucity

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Dearth

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Pecuniary

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Monetary

Related to money

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Pedantic

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Neg conn

Showing off trivial book learning

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Penitent

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Contrite

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Penuruious

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1 In poverty

2 excessively frugal

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Penury

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Poverty

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Perfidious

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Treacherous

Tending to betray

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Pernicious

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Subtlety Harmful, you’re often not aware

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Pervasive

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Penetrating

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Pithy

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Full of meaning

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Placate

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Appease

Conciliate

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Plutocracy

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Rule by wealthy

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Poignant

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Pricks your emotions

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Polarize

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Divide into two groups.

V or A

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Portentous

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Describes an augur of an ominous future event.

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Potentate

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PO ten tate

Ruler not bound by the rules, omnipotent

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Preponderance

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  1. Plethora, great amount
  2. Superiority in wealth and influence
  3. Superiority in weight
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Prerogative

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The special right or privilege of a specific group.

Suffrage is prerogative of white males

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Prescience

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The power to Forsee the future

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Prevaricate

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V
To lie or mislead
To be intentionally ambiguous with regard to a lie

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Privation
Deprivation State of extreme poverty Depriving someone else of necessities
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Profligate
A Prodigal Waste money
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Prognosticate
NOS | To predict
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Prolix
LIX Verbose Goes on for too long--has too many words
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Propensity
A natural tendency
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Propitious
PIH Auspicious A favorable time to do something
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Proprietor
Business owner
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Propriety
Correct or apropos behavior | Think gender roles
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Prosaic
Ordinary and dull
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Prostrate
Lying face downward Rendering someone defenseless Throw yourself on the ground
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Protégé
Proh tuh ZHEI | a person mentored by an expert
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Proverbial
From fictional stories
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Prowess
Exceptional skill or ability
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Puerile
Immature. Puerile jokes about farting
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Pugilist
Boxer. Pugilism is fighting with fists Pu JIL ist
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Pugnacious
Ready to fight Aggressive Resorts to violence (Use figuratively, mud slapping)
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Puissant
PYU sent Powerful, in position of authority
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Pusillanimous
Coward like, lack of courage | Not laziness, but fear.