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GRE Words #7
"P" and "Q" Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Paleontology (noun) | study of past geological eras through fossil remains |
| Pallid (adj) | lacking color or liveliness |
| Paragon (noun) | model of excellence or perfection |
| Partisan (adj) | one-sided; committed to a party or group or cause; prejudiced |
| Pathological (adj) | departing from normal condition |
| Pathos (noun) | quality that causes a feeling of pity or sorrow |
| Patois (noun) | a regional dialect; nonstandard speech; jargon |
| Paucity (noun) | scarcity |
| Penchant (noun) | inclination |
| Peregrination (noun) | a wandering from place to place |
| Peremptory (adj) | imperative; leaving no choice |
| Perfidious (adj) | faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy |
| Perigee (noun) | point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth |
| Permeable (adj) | penetrable |
| Perturb (verb) | to disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious; cause a body to deviate from its regular orbit |
| Perturbation (noun) | disturbance |
| Pervasive (adj) | having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
| Petulant (adj) | rude; peevish |
| Phoenix (noun) | mythical, immortal bird that lives for 500 years, burns itself to death, and rises from its ashes; anything that is restored after suffering great destruction |
| Physiognomy (noun) | facial features |
| Piety (noun) | devoutness |
| Piquant (adj) | appealingly stimulating; pleasantly pungent; attractive |
| Pique (noun) | fleeting feeling of hurt pride |
| Pique (verb) | to provoke or arouse |
| Placid (adj) | calm |
| Plaintive (adj) | melancholy; mournful |
| Plasticity (noun) | condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliability |
| Platonic (adj) | spiritual; without sexual desire; theoretical |
| Plumb (verb) | to determine the depth; to examine deeply |
| Plume (verb) | to congratulate oneself in a self-satisfied way |
| Plutocracy (noun) | society ruled by the wealthy |
| Porous (adj) | full of holed; permeable to liquids |
| Poseur (noun) | person who affects an attitude or identity to impress others |
| Pragmatism (noun) | practical way of approaching situations or solving problems |
| Prate (verb) | to talk idly; chatter |
| Preamble (noun) | preliminary statement |
| Precarious (adj) | uncertain |
| Precept (noun) | principle; law |
| Preempt (verb) | to supersede; appropriate for oneself |
| Prehensile (adj) | capable of grasping |
| Premonition (noun) | forewarning; presentiment |
| Presage (verb) | to foretell; indicate in advance |
| Presumptuous (adj) | rude; improperly bold |
| Preternatural (adj) | beyond the normal course of nature; supernatural |
| Primordial (adj) | original; existing from the beginning |
| Problematic (adj) | posing a problem; doubtful; unsettled |
| Profound (adj) | deep; not superficial |
| Profundity (noun) | the quality of being profound |
| Prohibitive (adj) | so high as to prevent the purchase or use of; preventing; forbidding |
| Propriety (noun) | correct conduct; fitness |
| Proscribe (verb) | to condemn; forbid; outlaw |
| Proscriptive (adj) | relating to prohibition |
| Provident (adj) | providing for future needs; frugal |
| Punctilious (adj) | careful in observing rules of behavior or ceremony |
| Purport (verb) | to profess; suppose; claim |
| Purport (noun) | intended or implied |
| Paean (noun) | a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
| Palliate (verb) | to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
| Panegyric (noun) | formal praise, eulogy, encomium |
| Parody (noun) | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
| Parsimonious (adj) | cheap, miserly |
| Pedagogy (noun) | the profession or principles of teaching or instructing |
| Pedantic (adj) | overly concerned with the trivial details of learning or education; show-offish about one's knowledge |
| Pedestrian (adj) | commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
| Pellucid (adj) | transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
| Penurious (adj) | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
| Penury (noun) | poverty; destitution |
| Perennial (adj) | recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
| Perfidy (noun) | intentional breach of faith; treachery |
| Perfunctory (adj) | cursory; done without care or interest |
| Pernicious (adj) | extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
| Peroration (noun) | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
| Perspicacious (adj) | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
| Peruse (verb) | to examine with great care |
| Pervade (verb) | to permeate throughout |
| Phlegmatic (adj) | calm; sluggish; unemotional |
| Pied (adj) | multicolored, usually in blotches |
| Pine (verb) | to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
| Pious (adj) | extremely reverent or devout; showing string religious devotion |
| Pirate (verb) | to illegally use or reproduce |
| Pith (noun) | the essential or central part |
| Pithy (adj) | precise and brief |
| Placate (verb) | to appease; to calm by making concessions |
| Plangent (adj) | pounding, thundering, resounding |
| Plastic (adj) | moldable, pliable, not rigid |
| Platitude (noun) | a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
| Plethora (noun) | an overabundance; a surplus |
| Pluck (noun) | courage, spunk, fortitude |
| Plummet (verb) | to plunge or drop straight down |
| Polemical (adj) | controversial; argumentative |
| Pragmatic (adj) | practical rather than idealistic |
| Prattle (verb) | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
| Precipitate (adj) | acting with excessive haste or impulse |
| Precipitate (verb) | to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
| Precursor (noun) | one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
| Predilection (noun) | a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| Preen (verb) | to dress up; to primp to groom oneself with elaborate care |
| Prescience (noun) | foreknowledge of events; knowledge of events prior to their occurrence |
| Presumptuous (adj) | overstepping due bonds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
| Prevaricate (verb) | to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
| Pristine (adj) | pure; uncorrupted; clean |
| Prize (verb) | to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
| Probity (noun) | adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
| Proclivity (noun) | a natural predisposition or inclination |
| Prodigal (adj) | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
| Prodigious (adj) | abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
| Profligate (adj) | excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
| Profuse (adj) | given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
| Proliferate (verb) | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
| Prolific (adj) | producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
| Prolix (adj) | long-winded, verbose |
| Propensity (noun) | a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
| Propitiate (verb) | to appease; to conciliate |
| Prosaic (adj) | dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
| Puerile (adj) | childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
| Puissance (noun) | power, strength |
| Pungent (adj) | characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
| Pusillanimous (adj) | cowardly, craven |
| Putrefy (verb) | to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
| Quagmire (noun) | marsh; difficult situation |
| Quibble (verb) | to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details |
| Quorum (noun) | number of members necessary to conduct a meeting |
| Quaff (verb) | to drink deeply |
| Quail (verb) | to lose courage; to turn frightened |
| Qualify (verb) | to limit |
| Qualms (noun) | misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
| Queries (noun) | questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
| Querulous (adj) | prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
| Quiescence (adj) | stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest |
| Quixotic (adj) | foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
| Quotidian (adj) | occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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