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Rainof pgs 31-42

QuestionAnswer
Pied Multicolored
To Pinion To Restrain
Pithy Concise
Plaintive Mournful
Plebian Common
Plutocracy Government by the wealthy
Poignant Piercing
Politic Prudent
Polity Form of government of nation or state
Poltroon Coward
Ponderous Weighty
To Prate To speak foolishly
Precept Practical rule guiding conduct
Preceptive Instructive
Preciosity Overrefinement in art of speech
To precipitate To hasten
Preternatural Supernatural
To prevaricate To lie
Primogeniture Seniority by birth
Probity Uprightness
Prodigal Reckless (squandering)
Prodigious Enormous
Profligate Immoral
Prolix Verbose
To propagate To spread
Prophylactic Used to prevent disease
Propitious Favorable
To propititate To appease
Prosaic Dull
Proselyte Convert
Prosody The art of versification
Provenance Origin or source of something
Provident Thrifty
Pugnacious Combative
Pulchritude Beauty
Pundit Learned person
Purblind Obtuse
To Purloin To steal
Pusillanimous Cowardly
Putative Supposed
To Quaff To drink with relish
To Quail To lose heart
Quaquaversal turning in all directions
Querulent Given to unfounded suspicions
Querulous Picky
Rake Libertine
Rakish Stylish
Rampant Defensive mound of earth
Rapacious Grasping
Rapprochement Reconciliation
Rebus Pictures symbolizing words
Recondite Secret
Recreant Coward
Recrimination Countercharge
Recusant Person who refuses to comply
Redolent Fragrant
Redoubtable Causing fear
Refractory Stubborn
To Regale To entertain
To remonstrate To protest
To rend To split
Repartee Clever reply
To repine To complain
Reprobate Person hardened in sin
Reprobate Scoundrel
To requite To revenge
Restive Restless
Reticent Reserved
Reticulated Covered by a network
Retinue Attendants
To Retrograde To go backwards
To Rhapsodize To speak or write about something in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic vein
Rhetoric Insincere language
Ribald Profane
Rife Abundant
To Roil To make liquids murky by stirring up sediments
Rubicund Reddish color
To rusticate To dwell in the country
Salacious Lustful
Sallow Yellowish
Salutary Healthy
Sanguinary Bloody
Sanguine Blood-red
Sartorial Pertaining to tailors
Saturnine Gloomy
Savant Scholar
Savoir faire Sophistication
Scion Offspring
Scullion Menial kitchen worker
Scurrilous Obscene
Sedition Resistance to authority
Sedulous Diligent
Seminal Germinal
Senescence Aging
To Sequester To confiscate
Serendipity Aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident
Shambles Slaughterhouse
To shunt To divert
Sideral Relating to the stars
Sinecure Position without responsibility
Sinous Winding in and out
Skulduggery Dishonest behavior
To slake To satisfy
Sleazy Flimsy
Sobriquet Nickname
Sojourn Temporary visit
Solecism Flagrantly incorrect grammatical construction
Solicitous Worried
Soliloquy Talking to oneself
Sophist Teacher of philosophy
Sophistication Artificiality
Sophistry Seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning
Spate Sudden flood
Specious Seemingly reasonable but incorrect
Spectral Ghostly
Splenetic Spiteful
Spurious False
Squalid Dirty
To Staunch To check flow of blood
Stentorian Extremely loud
Stoic Person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
Stolidity Dullness
Stricture Critical comments
Strut Supporting bar
Stygian Gloomy
Subaltern Subordinate
Succor Aid
To Suffuse To spread over
To sully To tarnish
Sumptuary Something that limits or regulates expenditure
To sunder To separate
Supercilious Contemptous
Supernal Heavenly
To Suppurate To create pus
Surcease Cessation
To Surfeit To cloy
Surrepticious Secret
Sybarite Lover of Luxury
Sycophant Servile flatterer
Sylvan Rustic
Synecdoche A figure of speech by which the whole of a thing is put for the part
Taciturn Habitually silent
Taper Candle
Tarn Small mountain lake
Tautological Redundant
Tawny Tan
To temporize To Stall
Tendentious Having an aim
Tenet Doctrine
Tensile Capable of being stretched
Tergiversation Evasion
Terse Concise
Tesselated Inlaid with differently colored materials in small squares
Thaumaturgist Magician
Theocracy Government by religious leaders
Thespian Pertaining to drama
Thrall Slave
Timbre Quality of musical tone
To Toady To kiss up to someone
Tocsin Alarm bell
Torpor Lethargy
Touchstone Stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys
Tractable Docile
To Traduce To expose to slander
Travail Painful labor
Trenchant Cutting
Trencherman Good eater
Trite Commonplace
Troglodyte Cave dweller
Trope Figure of speech
Troth Pledge of good faith
Truculence Ferocity
Tryst Meeting
Tumid Pompous
Turgid Swollen
Tyro (tiro) Beginner
Ubiquitous Omnipresent
Umbrage Resentment
Uncanny Strange
Unctuous Oily
Unfledged Immature
Unobtrusive Inconspicious
Unsullied Untarnished
To Upbraid To scold
Urbane Suave
Vacuous Empty
Vagary Whim
Vainglorious Boastful
Valedictory Pertaining to farewell
Valetudinarian Sickly
Vapid Insipid
Variegated Multicolored
Vaunted Hyped
Venal Capable of being bribed
Venial Forgivable
Ventral Abdominal
Verdigiris Oxidation on copper
Verisimilitude Appearance of truth
Vernal Pertaining to spring
Vertiginous Giddy
Verve Enthusiasm
Viand Food
Vicarious Acting as a substitute
Vicissitudes Ups and downs of life
Victuals Food
Vignette Picture
Virulent Extremely poisonous
Viscid Sticky
To Vitiate To corrupt
Vitriolic Corrosive
Vituperative Abusive
Vixen Female fox, ill tempered woman
Voluble Fluent
To Vouchsafe To guarantee
Vulpine Like a fox
Waggish Tricky
Wan Pallid
Warren Rabbit tunnel
Wastrel Squanderer
Welter Turmoil
To Welter To wallow
Whelp Pup
To winnow To sift
Winsome Agreeable
Wizened Withered
Wont Custom
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