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GRE Vocab16
P words/GRE Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Palatial | relating to a palace; magnificent |
| Palliate | to make less serious; ease |
| Pallid | lacking color or liveliness |
| Panache | flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve |
| Panegyric | elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise |
| Panoply | impressive array |
| Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma |
| Paragon | model of excellence or perfection |
| Pare | to trim off excess; reduce |
| Pariah | an outcast |
| Parley | discussion, usually between enemies |
| Parry | to ward off or deflect, especially by a quickwitted answer |
| Pastiche | piece of literature or music imitating other works |
| Pathogenic | causing disease |
| Peccadillo | minor sin or offense |
| Pedant | someone who shows off learning |
| Pejorative | having bad connotations; disparaging |
| Penury | an oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty |
| Peregrinate | to wander fro place to place; to travel; especially on foot |
| Perfidious | willing to betray one's trust |
| Perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| Peripatetic | wandering from place to place, especially on foot |
| Permeate | to penetrate |
| Perspicacious | shrewd, astute, or keen |
| Pervade | to be present throughout; to permeate |
| Phalanx | a compact or close knit body of people, animals, or things |
| Philanthropy | charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness |
| Philistine | a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values |
| Phlegmatic | calm and unemotional in temperament |
| Pithy | profound or substantial yet concise, succinct and to the point |
| Placate | to soothe or pacify |
| Plastic | able to be molded, altered, or bent |
| Plebeian | crude or coarse; characteristic of commoners |
| Plethora | excess |
| Plucky | courageous; spunky |
| Polemic | controversy; argument; verbal attack |
| Politic | shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomatic |
| Polyglot | a speaker of many languages |
| Posit | to assume as real or conceded; propose as an explanation |
| Potentate | a monarch or ruler with great power |
| Pragmatic | practical, as opposed to idealistic |
| Prattle | meaningless, foolish talk |
| Precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruplty; lacking deliberation |
| Precis | short summary of facts |
| Prescient | having foresight |
| Prevaricate | to lie or deviate from the truth |
| Pristine | fresh and clean; uncorrupted |
| Probity | complete honesty and integrity |
| Proclivity | a natural inclination or predisposition |
| Prodigal | lavish; wasteful |
| Profligate | corrupt; degenerate |
| Proliferate | to increase in number quickly |
| Propitiate | to conciliate; to appease |
| Propriety | the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs |
| Prudence | wisdom, caution, or restraint |
| Puerile | childish, immature, or silly |
| Pugilism | boxing |
| Pulchritude | beauty |
| Pungent | sharp and irritating to the senses |
| Pusillanimous | cowardly; without courage |
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