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GRE Vocab 4000
Question | Answer |
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perennial | enduring, lasting |
perforce | by necessity |
perigee | point nearest to earth |
peripatetic | walking about |
permutation | reordering |
peroration | conclusion |
perquisite | reward, bonus |
persona | social facade |
personage | official, dignitary |
perspicacious | keen |
pert | flippant, bold |
pertinacious | persevering |
peruse | read carefully |
petrology | study of rocks |
pettifogger | unscrupulous lawyer |
petulant | irritable, peevish |
phantasm | apparition |
philatelist | stamp collector |
physic | laxative, cathartic |
picaresque | roguish, adventurous |
piecemeal | one at a time |
pillory | punish by ridicule |
pine | languish |
piteous | sorrowful, pathetic |
pithy | concise |
pittance | alms, driblet, trifle |
pixilated | eccentric, possessed |
plaintive | expressing sorrow |
platitude | trite remark |
plebeian | common, vulgar |
plenary | full |
pleonasm | redundancy, verbosity |
plethora | overabundance |
plucky | courageous |
plumb | measure |
plutocrat | wealthy person |
podgy | fat |
pogrom | massacre, mass murder |
poignant | pungent, sharp |
polity | methods of government |
poltroon | dastard |
polychromatic | many-colored |
ponderous | heavy, bulky |
pootroon | coward |
porcine | pig-like |
portend | signify, augur |
posit | stipulate |
posterior | rear, subsequent |
posterity | future generations |
postulate | supposition, premise |