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Pine-Prodigious
Question | Answer |
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pine | to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor; mourn, desire |
pirate | to illegally use or reproduce; steal |
pith | the essential or central part; core, quintessence |
pithy | precise and brief; succinct |
placate | to appease; to calm by making concessions; assuage, pacify |
platitude | a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful; cliche |
plethora | an overabundance; a surplus; plenty |
plummet | to plunge or drop straight down; fall; decline |
polemical | controversial; argumentative; contentious |
pragmatic | practical rather than idealistic; realistic |
prattle | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner; chatter, blather |
preen | to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care; beautify |
prescience | knowing of events prior to their occuring; presage, foreknowledge, insight |
presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties; presuming rash |
prevaricate | to deliberately avoid the truth; mislead; misinform, deceive, hedge |
pristine | pure; uncorrupted; clean; untouched |
probity | adherence to highest principles; uprightness; integrity |
proclivity | a natural predisposition or inclination; penchant |
prodigal | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse, lavish |
prodigious | abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary; immense |