Pacify-Permeate Flashcards
Painstaking
Extremely careful
Taking pains
Pacify
To calm someone down
To placate
Palliate
To relieve or alleviate something without getting rid if the problem
To assuage
To mitigate
Palpable
Capable of being touched
Obvious
Tangible
Paltry
Insignificant
Worthless
Panacea
Something that cures everything
Paradigm
A model or example
Paradox
A true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself
An untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical
Parochial
Narrow or confined in point if view
Provincial
Parody
A satirical imitation
Parsimonious
Stingy
Partisan
One who supports a particular person cause, or idea.
Patent
Obvious
Paternal
Fatherly
Father like
Pathology
The science of diseases
Patriarch
The male head of a family or tribe
Patrician
A person of noble birth
An aristocrat
Patronize
To treat as an inferior
To condescend to
Paucity
Scarcity
Peccadillo
A minor offense
Pedantic
Boringly scholarly or academic
Pedestrian
Unimaginative
Banal
Perjorative
Negative
Disparaging
Penchant
A strong taste or liking for something
A predilection
Penitent
Sorry
Repentant
Contrite
Pensive
Thoughtful and sad
Peremptory
Final
Categorical
Dictatorial
Perennial
Continual
Happening again an again or year after year.
Perfidy
Treachery
Perfunctory
Unenthusiastic
Careless
Peripatetic
Wandering
Traveling continually
Itinerant
Periphery
The outside edge or something
Perjury
Lying under oath
Permeate
To spread or seep through
To penetrate
