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SAT words 2.5
Week After Christmas
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Opulent | wealthy, abundant |
| Overt | not hidden, open |
| Painstaking | very careful, diligent |
| Pariah | an outcast |
| Parsimonious | too thrifty, stingy |
| Partisan | showing a strong support for a party or cause, characteristic or a guerrilla fighter |
| Paucity | scarcity, smallness in number or amount |
| Peerless | having no equal, better than the rest |
| Perceptive | discerning, observant, sensitive |
| Perfidy | treachery, betrayal of trust |
| Ponderous | very heavy, bulky, labored and dull or tiresome |
| Pragmatic | practical, opinionated, concerned with actual practice rather than with theory or speculation |
| Preclude | to make impossible, to shut out, to prevent |
| Precocious | having or showing much more ability or knowledge than is usual at such a young age, early or prematurely ripe or developed |
| Prestigious | honored, having an illustrious name or reputation |
| Prententious | claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, showy, self-important |
| Procrasinate | to put off doing something until a later time, to delay |
| Prodigious | enormous, extraordinary, marvelous |
| Profane | secular, not holy, not connected with religion, irreverent |
| Profusion | abundance, a great or generous amount, extravagance |