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English Vocab 4-8
Term | Definition |
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pedestrian | a person walking along a road or in a developed area. |
pejorative | having negative connotations |
perdition | eternal damnation |
perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality |
perspicacity | the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness. |
peruse | read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way. |
quagmire | a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot. |
quandary | a state of confusion or doubt |
quasi- | “resembling,” “having some, but not all of the features of,” |
querulous | complaining in a petulant or whining manner. |
quiddity | the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other. |
raiment | an old-fashioned word for clothing, particularly fancy clothing |
rakish | having or displaying a dashing, jaunty, or slightly disreputable quality or appearance. |
ratiocinate | form judgments by a process of logic; reason. |
rationalize | attempt to explain or justify (one's own or another's behavior or attitude) with logical, plausible reasons, even if these are not true or appropriate. |