Vocab 121-150 Flashcards
Mire
A stretch of swampy are boggy ground
Multifarious
Many end of various types
Mundane
Dull or boring
Nefarious
Wicked or criminal
Obsequious
Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree
Odious
Extremely unpleasant or repulsive
Opaque
Not transparent
Meticulous
Showing great attention to detail
Ostentatious
Designed to impress or attract notice
Palpable
Able to be touched or felt
Paragon
A model of excellence
Pariah
An outcast
Parochial
Relating to a church parish
Paucity
Scarcity
Pedantic
Perfectionist
Pejorative
Expressing disapproval
Philistine
A person who has no understanding to culture and the arts
Pique
Feeling of irritation or resentment
Pithy
Forcefully expressive
Poignant
Sense of sadness or regret
Polemical
Controversial writing or speech
Precocious
Having develop certain abilities an earlier age than others
Proclivity
Tendency to choose or do something regularly
Progeny
Offspring of a person
Prolific
Producing much fruit or many offspring
Prosaic
Having ordinary style or diction
Protean
Changes frequently
Protract
Prolong
Pugnacity
Having a quarrelsome nature
Pulchritude
Beauty