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WS quick quiz 61-65
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| painstaking | extremely careful ; taking pains |
| palliate | to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of the problem ; to assuage ; to mitigate |
| palpable | capable of being touched ; obvious ; tangible |
| paltry | insignificant ; worthless |
| panacea | something that cures everything |
| paradigm | a model or example |
| paradox | a true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself ; an untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical |
| parochial | narrow or confined in point of view ; provincial |
| parody | a satirical imitation |
| parsimonious | stingy |
| partisan | one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea |
| patent | obvious |
| paternal | fatherly ; fatherlike |
| pathology | the science of diseases |
| patriarch | the male head of a family or tribe |
| patrician | a person of noble birth ; an aristocrat |
| patronize | to treat as an inferior ; to condescend to |
| paucity | scarcity |
| peccadillo | a minor offense |
| pedantic | boringly scholarly or academic |
| pedestrian | unimaginative ; banal |
| pejorative | negative ; disparaging |
| penchant | a strong taste or liking for something ; a predilection |
| penitent | sorry ; repentant ; contrite |
| pensive | thoughtful and sad |
| peremptory | final ; categorical ; dictatorial |
| perennial | continual ; happening again and again or year after year |
| perfidy | treachery |
| perfunctory | unenthusiastic ; careless |
| peripatetic | wandering ; traveling continually ; itinerant |
| periphery | the outside edge of something |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| permeate | to spread or seep through ; to penetrate |
| pernicious | deadly ; extremely evil |
| perquisite | a privilege that goes along with a job ; a perk |
| pertinent | relevant ; dealing with the matter at hand |
| perturb | to disturb greatly |
| peruse | to read carefully |
| pervade | to spread throughout |
| petulant | rude ; cranky ; ill-tempered |
| philanthropy | love of mankind, especially by doing good deeds |
| philistine | a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters |
| plous | reverent or devout ; outwardly (and sometimes falsely) reverent or devout ; hypocritical |
| pivotal | crucial |
| placate | to pacify ; to appease ; to soothe |
| plaintive | expressing sadness or sorrow |
| platitude | a dull or trite remark ; a cliche |
| plebeian | common ; vulgar ; low class ; bourgeois |
| plethora | an excess |
| poignant | painfully emotional ; extremely moving ; sharp or astute |
| polarize | to break up into opposing factions or groupings |
| polemic | a powerful argument often make to attack or refute a controversial issue |
| ponderous | so large as to be clumsy ; massive ; dull |
| portent | an omen ; a sign of something coming in the future |
| postulate | something accepted as true without proof ; and axiom |
| pragmatic | practical ; down to earth ; based on experience rather than theory |
| precedent | an earlier example or model of something |
| precept | a rule to live by ; a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior ; a maxim |
| precipitate | to cause to happen abruptly |
| precipitous | steep |
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