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words starting with per
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| percipient | perceptive, insightful, perspicacious, sagacious, acute, astute |
| perdition | damnation, condemnation to eternal punishment in hell |
| peremptory | in a commanding(or dogmatic) manner, brusquely imperious |
| perfidy | treachery, infidelity, being deceitful and untrustworthy |
| perfunctory | superficial, cursory, casual, carried out without real interest or effort |
| peripatetic | nomadic, moving place to place |
| peripheral | on the edge, not important |
| perjury | telling lies under oath |
| pernicious | destructive, harmful, noxious, inimical, calamitous, deleterious, detrimental |
| persnickety | fastidious, fussy, difficult, finicky, finical |
| perpituated | cause to continue |
| perpetuity | eternity |
| personable | attractive, having pleasant appearance and manner |
| perspicacious | insightful, sharp, wise, sagacious, shrewd |
| perspicacity | insight, shrewdness |
| pertinent | relevant, germane, apposite |
| peruse | read carefully |
| pervasive | spreading everywhere, prevalent, rife |
| perceptive | observant, insightful |