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GRE Vocab 4000
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |