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VP2** Set 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Opine | To express an opinion |
| Oscillate | To vary between opposing beliefs or feelings |
| Paean (PEE uhn) | A song or expression of praise |
| Palatial | Relating to a palace; magnificent |
| Palpable | Able of being touched or felt; easily perceived |
| Panache (puh NAHSH) | Flamboyance or dash in style or action |
| Paradigm | An outstandingly clear or typical example |
| Patent | Obvious, evident |
| Pathogenic | Causing disease |
| Patrician | Aristocratic |
| Penitent | Expressing sorrow for sins or offenses, repentant |
| Phalanx | A compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things |
| Philistine | A person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values |
| Phlegmatic | Having a sluggish, unemotional temperament |
| Pique | To arouse anger or resentment in; provoke |
| Platitude | Overused or trite remark |
| Plebeian | Crude or coarse; Characteristic of commoners |
| Politic | Shrewd and crafty in managing or dealing with things |
| Portentous | Foreshadowing, ominous; eliciting amazement and wonder |
| Posit | To assume as real or conceded; propose as an explanation |
| Potable | Suitable for drinking |
| Precipitously | Steeply; hastily |
| Presage (PRE sihj) | Something that foreshadows; a feeling of what will happen in the future |
| Preternatural | Existing outside of nature; extraordinary; supernatural |
| Prodigal | Recklessly extravagant, wasteful |
| Proffer | To offer for acceptance (propose) |
| Progenitor | An ancestor in the direct line, forefather; founder |
| Prostrate | Lying face downward in adoration or submission |
| Pugilism | Boxing |
| Pundit | One who gives opinions in an authoritative manner |
| Purport (pur PORT) | To profess, suppose, claime |
| Reactionary | Marked by extreme conservatism, especially in politics |
| Relegate | To send into exile, banish; assign |
| Remuneration | Payments for goods or services or to recompense for losses |
| Requite | To return or repay |
| Salacious | Appealing to sexual desire |
| Salient | Prominent, of notable significance |
| Satiate | To satisfy(as a need or desire) fully or to excess |
| Seamy | Morally degraded, unpleasant |
| Simian | Apelike; relating to apes |
| Sportive | Frolicsome, playful |
| Stalwart | Marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
| Stint | To be sparing or frugal; to restrict with respect to a share or allowance |
| Supersede | To cause to be set aside; to force out of use as inferior, replace |
| Tempestuous | Stormy, turbulent |
| Tremulous | Trembling, timid; easily shaken |
| Trounce | To beat severely, defeat |
| Unfrock | To dethrone, especially of priestly power |
| Veracity | Accuracy, truth |
| Veritable | Being without question, often used figuratively |
| Vilify | To slander, defame |
| Visceral | Instinctive, not intellectual; deep, emotional |
| Worst | To gain advantage over; defeat |
| Wan | Sickly pale |
| Winsome | Charming, happily engaging |
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