Vocab II Flashcards
1
Q
Palliate
A
to make something seem less serious, gloss over
2
Q
Panegyric
A
formal praise, eulogy, encomium
3
Q
Parsimonious
A
cheap, miserly
4
Q
Petrous
A
like a rock, hard, stony
5
Q
Picaresque
A
involving clever rogues or adventurers
6
Q
Plangent
A
thundering, pounding, resounding
7
Q
Prolix
A
long winded, verbose
8
Q
Proscribe
A
to outlaw, or banish, to ostracize
9
Q
Pusillanimous
A
cowardly, craven
10
Q
Ramify
A
to be divided or subdivided, branch out
11
Q
Rebus
A
riddle, a representation of words in pictures or symbols
12
Q
Recreant
A
coward, pusillanimous
13
Q
Refractory
A
stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
14
Q
Remonstrate
A
protest, object
15
Q
Repine
A
to feel or express dejection or discontent, to long for
