Vocabulary #9
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- Pilfer, purloin, filch, loot
- to steal
- Plenitude
- an abundance
- Pallid
- pale
- Peremptory
- final
- Parsimonious
- stingy
- Penury
- extreme poverty
- Perspicacious
- quick to discern or understand
- Onerous
- burdensome
- Perfidy
- a deliberate breach of faith; calculated violation of trust; treachery
- Palisades
- steep cliffs along a river
- Pittance
- a very small amount
- Overt
- open to view, unhidden and obvious
- Plutocratic
- having great influence due to money; governing by the weathy
- Panegyric
- a speech of praise, laudation
- Pertinent
- relevant to the subject
- Palladium
- protection something
- Palatable
- pleasing or acceptable to the taste; acceptable to the mind
- Opus
- a literary work or other artistic composition
- Oust
- to expel, kick out
- Opportune
- timely; occurring at a good time
- Officious
- pushy in giving opinions
- Penurious
- extremely poor or stingy; having little money
- Perfunctory
- done routinely and with little interest or care; acting with indifference
- Omnivore
- something that eats everything, both plant and animal
- Omnipotent
- all-powerful
- Orient
- the East, China and Japan
- Palpitate
- to beat rapidly
- Parvenu
- a newly rich person
- Onus
- a great burden
- Opulent
- rich, wealthy
- Philogyny
- a love of women
- Philistine
- a narrow-minded prosaic person; smug, ignorant person held to be indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values
- Paramount
- a primary thing, of most importance
- Ordain
- to decree or order
- Peruse
- to read or to study
- Philanthropist
- a lover of humanity
- Panacea
- a cure-all
- Paragon
- a perfect example
- Palaver
- idle talk
- Pedantic
- stressing trivial points of learning; overly scholarly
- Plausible
- Seemingly or apparently valid, likely to occur; acceptable
- Pithy
- short, concise
- Paean
- a song of joy
- Pensive
- thoughtful in a sad way; deeply, often wistfully or dreamily thoughtful
- Philosopher
- one who loves to gain wisdom
- Perfidious
- treacherous, deceitful
- Omniscient
- all-knowing, all-seeing
- Pinnacle
- a peak, the highest point
- Ostensible
- apparent at first glance; probable
- Petulant
- impatient or irritable, especially over a petty annoyance; peevish
- Paucity
- a small amount, dearth, scarcity
- Pathogenic
- causing disease
- Platitude
- a trite or weak utterance; a dull or stale truism; a cliche
- Philharmonic
- loving music
- Peripheral
- on the outside
- Pernicious
- causing great harm; destructive
- Palette
- an artist's color board
- Philippic
- a bitter denunciation in a speech
- Partisan
- supporting one side
- Palpable
- capable of being handled, touched, or felt; tangible; easily perceived; obvious
- Placate
- to pacify; to appease
- Patriarchy
- rule by the father; government ruled by a man
- Personification
- giving human characteristics to non human things
- Philology
- a love of language
- Odyssey
- a long travel; journey
- Phlebotomy
- process of cutting a vein so that blood is released
- Philhellenism
- a love of Greeks
- Ostentatious
- done to impress others; showy; pretentious