Pernicious-Preeminent Flashcards
Perquisite
A privilege that goes along with a job
A “perk”
Pernicious
Deadly
Extremely evil
Pertinent
Relevant
Dealing with the matter at hand
Perturb
To disturb greatly
Peruse
To read carefully
Pervade
To spread throughout
Petulant
Rude
Cranky
Ill-tempered
Philanthropy
Love of mankind, especially by doing good deeds
Philistine
A smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters
Pious
Reverent or devout
Outwardly and sometimes falsely religious
Hypocritical
Pivotal
Crucial
Placate
To pacify
To appease
To soothe
Plaintive
Expressing sadness or sorrow
Platitude
A dull or trite remark
A cliché
Plebeian
Common
Vulgar
Low-class
Plethora
An excess
Poignant
Painfully emotional
Extremely moving
Sharp or astute
Polarize
To break into opposing factions or groupings
Polemic
A powerful argument often made to attack or refute a controversial issue
Ponderous
So large as to be clumsy
Massive
Dull
Portent
An omen
A sign of something coming in the future
Postulate
Something accepted as true without proof
An axiom
Pragmatic
Practical
Down to earth
Based in experience rather than theory
Precedent
An earlier example or model of something
Precept
A rule to live by
A maxim
A principle establishing a certain kind if action or behavior
Precipitate
To cause to happen abruptly
Precipitous
Steep
Preclude
To prevent something from ever happening
Precursor
Forerunner
Something that goes before an anticipates or paves the way for whatever it is that follows
Predilection
A natural preference for something
Preeminent
Better than anyone else
Outstanding
Supreme
