Vocab 281-300

Question 1

Platitude

Answer 1

A meaningless truism; a dull remark

Question 2

Plethora

Answer 2

An overabundance of; an excess, unending number

Question 3

Ponderous

Answer 3

Heavy; massive; dull; so large as to be clumsy

Question 4

Portent

Answer 4

A forewarning

Question 5

Pragmatic

Answer 5

Practical, based on experience, down-to-earth

Question 6

Precipitate

Answer 6

To cause to happen (usually suddenly)

Question 7

Preclude

Answer 7

To cut off or prevent from happening in the first place

Question 8

Preempt

Answer 8

To take the place of; to seize upon to the exclusion of something or someone else

Question 9

Prerogative

Answer 9

A right or privilege specific to a person, class, or group

Question 10

Pristine

Answer 10

Unspoiled, clean, pure

Question 11

Procreate

Answer 11

To produce offspring; to reproduce

Question 12

Prodigal

Answer 12

Recklessly extravagant; wasteful; profuse

Question 13

Progeny

Answer 13

Offspring, descendants, children

Question 14

Proliferate

Answer 14

To increase quickly

Question 15

Propensity

Answer 15

A strong natural inclination or preference; a tendency

Question 16

Proselytize

Answer 16

To actively seek to convert to a belief, usually religious; to recruit to your point of view

Question 17

Provident

Answer 17

Preparing for the future; careful

Question 18

Provisional

Answer 18

For the time being; temporary, conditional, subject to change

Question 19

Purgatory

Answer 19

Temporary state of suffering and misery; place between heaven and hell

Question 20

Plaintive

Answer 20

Expressing sadness or sorrow