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Vocab Quiz #26
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Obdurate | stubborn |
| Odious | hateful; vile |
| Ornate | excessively or elaborately decorated |
| Pariah | social outcast |
| Parody | humorous imitation; spoof; takeoff; travesty |
| Parsimony | stinginess; excessive frugality |
| Paucity | scarcity |
| Penury | severe poverty; stinginess |
| Perfunctory | superficial; not thorough |
| Pernicious | very destructive |
| Pitfall | hidden danger; concealed trap |
| Pithy | concise; meaningful; substancial; meaty |
| Polemical | aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious |
| Prattle | babble |
| Precarious | uncertain; risky |
| Profligate | dissipated; wasteful; wildly immortal |
| Quagmire | soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself |
| Quell | extinguish; put down; quiet |
| Querulous | fretful; whining |
| Quiescent | at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive |