Word Smart 6th the dreaded P Fuck quizlet

Pacify

to calm someone down; to placate

Painstaking

extremely careful; taking pains

Palliate

to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of 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 of view; provincial

Parody

a satirical imitation

Parsimonious

adj stingy

Partisan

one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea

Patent

obvious

Paternal

fatherly; fatherlike

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

Pejorative

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 and again or year after year

Perfidy

treachery

Perfunctory

unenthusiastic; careless

Peripatetic

wandering; traveling continually; itinerant

Periphery

the outside edge of something

Perjury

lying under oath

Permeate

to spread or seep through; to penetrate

Pernicious

deadly; extremely evil

Perquisite

a privilege that goes along with a job; a "perk"

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) reverent or devout; 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 up into opposing factions or grouping

Polemic

a powerful argument often made to attack or refute to 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 on experience rather than theory

Precedent

an earlier example or model of something

Precept

a rule to live by; a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior; a maxim

Precipitate

v to cause to happen abruptly

The budget problem was precipitated by many unexpected costs

Precipitous

steep

Preclude

to prevent something from ever happening

Precursor

forerunner; something that goes before and anticipates or paves the way of whatever it is that follows

Predilection

a natural preference for something

Preeminent

better than anyone else; outstanding; supreme

Preempt

to seize something by prior right

Premise

an assumption; the basis for a conclusion

Prepossess

to preoccupy; to influence beforehand or prejudice; to make a good impression on beforehand

Prerogative

a right or privilege connected exclusively with a position, a person, a nation, or some other group or classification

Prevail

to triumph; to overcome rivals; (with, on, upon, or with) to persuade

Pristine

original; unspoiled; pure

Prodigal

wastefully extravagant

Prodigious

extraordinary; enormous

Prodigy

an extremely talented child; an extraordinary accomplishment or occurence

Profane

not having to do with religion; irreverent; blasphemous

Profess

to declare; to declare falsely or pretend

Proficient

thoroughly competent; skillful; good(at something)

Profligate

extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral

Profound

deep (in several senses)

Profuse

flowing; extravagant

Proletariat

the industrial working class

Proliferate

to spread or grow rapidly

Prolific

abundantly productive; fruitful or fertile

Promulgate

to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something

Propensity

a natural inclination or tendency; a predilection

Jim always had a Propensity for violence

Propitious

marked by favourable signs or conditions

Proponent

an advocate; a supporter of a position

Proprietary

characteristic of an owner of property; continuing property

Propriety

properness; good manners

Prosaic

dull; unimaginative; like prose(as opposed to poetry)

Proscribe

to outlaw; to prohibit

Proselytize

to convert (someone) from one religions or doctrine to another; to recruit converts to a religion or doctrine

Protagonist

the leading character in a novel, play, or other work; a leader or champion

Protract

to prolong

Provident

preparing for the future; providing for the future; frugal

Provincial

limited in outlook to one's own small corner of the world; narrow

Provisional

conditional; temporary; tentative

Proximity

nearness

Prudent

careful; having foresight

Purported

rumoured; claimed