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- pentathlon
- The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
- prejudice
- A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
- palette
- A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
- pusillanimous
- Without spirit or bravery.
- pinchers
- An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
- protoplasm
- The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
- prodigy
- A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities.
- peninsular
- Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
- parallel
- To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
- polytheism
- The doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one.
- plaudit
- An expression of applause.
- plural
- Containing or consisting of more than one.
- panic
- A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
- posterior
- The hinder part.
- Quixotic
- Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
- propaganda
- Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
- protrusion
- The act of protruding.
- peter
- To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
- pavilion
- An open structure for temporary shelter.
- preservation
- Conservatio,
- plagiarism
- The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's ow,
- parsimonious
- Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
- penance
- Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
- productive
- Yielding in abundance.
- peccadillo
- A small breach of propriety or principle.
- poise
- Equilibrium.
- perverse
- Unreasonable.
- prohibitionist
- One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
- plurality
- A majority.
- quay
- A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
- polycracy
- The rule of many.
- pitiable
- Contemptible.
- philharmonic
- Fond of music.
- pastoral
- Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
- propel
- To drive or urge forward.
- propagate
- To spread abroad or from person to perso,
- pyre
- A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
- psychiatry
- The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
- plenitude
- Abundance.
- protrude
- To push out or thrust forth.
- populace
- The common people.
- physiography
- Description of nature.
- proportionate
- Being in proportio,
- prevention
- Thwarting.
- peremptory
- Precluding question or appeal.
- predominate
- To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
- pledgeor
- One who gives a pledge.
- peccant
- Guilty.
- pertinacious
- Persistent or unyielding.
- pollute
- To contaminate.
- permutation
- Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
- paternity
- Fatherhood.
- percipient
- One who or that which perceives.
- protege
- One specially cared for and favored by another usually older perso,
- prima
- First.
- qualification
- A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
- pneumatic
- Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
- pendulum
- A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
- proverb
- A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
- pectoral
- Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
- pillage
- Open robbery, as in war.
- philogynist
- One who is fond of wome,
- paly
- Lacking color or brilliancy.
- quintet
- Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
- plummet
- A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
- preemption
- The right or act of purchasing before others.
- quackery
- Charlatanry
- prodigious
- Immense.
- pedal
- A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
- predominant
- Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
- pact
- A covenant.
- perceive
- To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
- proficient
- Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
- precipice
- A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
- physique
- The physical structure or organization of a perso,
- principle
- A general truth or propositio,
- quarterly
- Occurring or made at intervals of three months.
- proclamation
- Any announcement made in a public manner.
- quantity
- Magnitude.
- penitential
- Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
- pincers
- An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
- perspiration
- Sweat.
- prehensible
- Capable of being grasped.
- pantheism
- The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
- prehension
- The act of laying hold of or grasping.
- perceptible
- Cognizable.
- pernicious
- Tending to kill or hurt.
- pedestal
- A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
- patronize
- To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
- prefatory
- Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
- quite ad
- Fully.
- profiteer
- One who profits.
- parallelism
- Essential likeness.
- perforate
- To make a hole or holes through.
- persecution
- Harsh or malignant oppressio,
- precocious
- Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
- positive
- Free from doubt or hesitatio,
- parity
- Equality, as of condition or rank.
- priory
- A monastic house.
- quarter
- One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
- privilege
- A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions.
- possess
- To ow,
- promiscuous
- Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
- profuse
- Produced or displayed in overabundance.
- propulsion
- A driving onward or forward.
- pestilence
- A raging epidemic.
- posse
- A force of me,
- paralyze
- To deprive of the power to act.
- presentient
- Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
- petulant
- Displaying impatience.
- palinode
- A retractio,
- penetrate
- To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
- predict
- To foretell.
- peaceable
- Tranquil.
- procrastination
- Delay.
- perquisite
- Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
- precession
- The act of going forward.
- prophesy
- To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
- preamble
- A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
- philosophize
- To seek ultimate causes and principles.
- perfidy
- Treachery.
- possession
- The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
- perhaps ad
- Possibly.
- psychic
- Pertaining to the mind or soul.
- pretext
- A fictitious reason or motive.
- picayune
- Of small value.
- profile
- An outline or contour.
- penultimate
- A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
- papyrus
- The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
- physicist
- A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
- philanthropist
- One who endeavors to help his fellow me,
- prescript
- Prescribed as a rule or model.
- paragon
- A model of excellence.
- persuadable
- capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the feelings.
- physiognomy
- The external appearance merely.
- probity
- Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
- preparatory
- Having to do with what is preliminary.
- Pariah
- A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
- quarantine
- The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease.
- precise
- Exact.
- preeminence
- Special eminence.
- perspective
- The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
- polygamy
- the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
- quartet
- A composition for four voices or four instruments.
- preference
- An object of favor or choice.
- preestablish
- To settle or arrange beforehand.
- potentate
- One possessed of great power or sway.
- poetic
- Pertaining to poetry.
- proxy
- A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
- qualm
- A fit of nausea.
- panacea
- A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
- placate
- To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
- pedagogy
- The science and art of teaching
- pseudapostle
- A pretended or false apostle.
- pompous
- Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
- plenteous
- Abundant.
- privateer
- A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
- pomposity
- The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
- pentad
- The number five.
- promontory
- A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
- pollen
- The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
- protagonist
- A leader in any enterprise or contest.
- philanthropic
- Benevolent.
- psychotherapy
- The treatment of mental disease.
- penurious
- Excessively sparing in the use of money.
- phenomenal
- Extraordinary or marvelous.
- principality
- The territory of a reigning prince.
- poignancy
- Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
- persistence
- A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
- perpetrator
- The doer of a wrong or a criminal act.
- pellucid
- Translucent.
- potency
- Power.
- purloin
- To steal.
- paternal
- Fatherly.
- predominance
- Ascendancy or preponderance.
- perspicuous
- Lucid.
- propriety
- Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
- peerless
- Of unequaled excellence or worth.
- pseudonymity
- The state or character of using a fictitious name.
- pamphleteer
- To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
- pentagram
- A figure having five points or lobes.
- playful
- Frolicsome.
- permanent
- Durable.
- puissant
- Possessing strength.
- pathos
- The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
- periodicity
- The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals.
- promulgate
- To proclaim.
- piece
- A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
- pervasion
- The state of spreading through every part.
- physics
- The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
- protuberance
- Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
- prefer
- To hold in higher estimatio,
- position
- The manner in which a thing is placed.
- protuberant
- Bulging.
- prevaricate
- To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attentio,
- participant
- One having a share or part.
- pacify
- To bring into a peaceful state.
- pendulous
- Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
- pediatrics
- The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
- persuade
- To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflectio,
- preternatural
- Extraordinary.
- platitude
- A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
- pentavalent
- Quinqeuvalent.
- prosody
- The science of poetical forms.
- paroxysm
- A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
- pretentious
- Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
- paramount
- Supreme in authority.
- preposterous
- Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
- phenomenon
- Any unusual occurrence.
- privy
- Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transactio,
- penitence
- Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
- prickle
- To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
- propellant
- Propelling.
- precedence
- Priority in place, time, or rank.
- pauper
- One without means of support.
- protector
- A defender.
- quarto
- An eight-page newspaper of any size.
- philanthropy
- Active humanitarianism.
- prediction
- A prophecy.
- predicate
- To state as belonging to something.
- partisan
- Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
- pseudonym
- A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
- prohibition
- A decree or an order forbidding something.
- projection
- A prominence.
- phonogram
- A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
- persist
- To continue steadfast against oppositio,
- pyx
- A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.
- pamphlet
- A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
- perfectible
- Capable of being made perfect.
- quibble
- An utterly trivial distinction or objectio,
- pandemonium
- A fiendish or riotous uproar.
- perspire
- To excrete through the pores of the ski,
- pervert
- One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
- phonology
- The science of human vocal sounds.
- perception
- Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
- proceed
- To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruptio,
- querulous
- Habitually complaining.
- prolific
- Producing offspring or fruit.
- preoccupy
- To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
- provident
- Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
- preengage
- To preoccupy.
- pertinent
- Relevant.
- playwright
- A maker of plays for the stage.
- philander
- To play at courtship with a woma,
- putrescent
- Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
- plenipotentiary
- A person fully empowered to transact any business.
- pecuniary
- Consisting of money.
- panegyric
- A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
- proselyte
- One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
- peaceful
- Tranquil.
- palpable
- perceptible by feeling or touch.
- provocation
- An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
- perpendicular
- Straight up and dow,
- peevish
- Petulant. (irritable)
- prattle
- To utter in simple or childish talk.
- predatory
- Prone to pillaging.
- peerage
- The nobility.
- presage
- To foretell.
- query
- To make inquiry.
- pharmacy
- The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
- payee
- A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
- partible
- Separable.
- powerless
- Impotent.
- proffer
- To offer to another for acceptance.
- perennial
- Continuing though the year or through many years.
- prescience
- Knowledge of events before they take place.
- pharmacopoeia
- A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
- prophecy
- Any prediction or foretelling.
- prominent
- Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
- quandary
- A puzzling predicament.
- polyglot
- Speaking several tongues.
- prurient
- Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
- phosphorescence
- The property of emitting light.
- provincial
- Uncultured in thought and manner.
- protract
- To prolong.
- phlegmatic
- Not easily roused to feeling or actio,
- prolix
- Verbose.
- protomartyr
- The earliest victim in any cause.
- percussion
- The sharp striking of one body against another.
- punctual
- Observant and exact in points of time.
- patriotism
- Love and devotion to one's country.
- preparation
- An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
- pendant
- Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
- passive
- Unresponsive.
- potent
- Physically powerful.
- pinnacle
- A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
- propitious
- Kindly disposed.
- pittance
- Any small portion or meager allowance.
- perambulate
- To walk about.
- personnel
- The force of persons collectively employed in some service.
- portend
- To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
- prudence
- Cautio,
- paronymous
- Derived from the same root or primitive word.
- plumb
- A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
- penetration
- Discernment.
- prehensile
- Adapted for grasping or holding.
- perfunctory
- Half-hearted.
- piecemeal ad
- Gradually.
- predecessor
- An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
- parlor
- A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
- preoccupation
- The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
- pantoscope
- A very wide-angled photographic lens.
- plea
- An argument to obtain some desired actio,
- precedential
- Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
- perspicacity
- Acuteness or discernment.
- prospectus
- A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
- postgraduate
- Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
- permanence
- A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
- precipitate
- To force forward prematurely.
- panoply
- A full set of armor.
- participate
- To receive or have a part or share of.
- quarrelsome
- Irascible.
- poignant
- Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
- profession
- Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
- pallid
- Of a pale or wan appearance.
- patriarch
- The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
- purveyor
- one who supplies
- plausible
- Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
- premonition
- Foreboding.
- populous
- Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
- preferential
- Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
- psychopathic
- Morally irresponsible.
- pontiff
- The Pope.
- photoelectric
- Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
- polar
- Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
- quiescence
- Quiet.
- proletarian
- A person of the lowest or poorest class.
- quietus
- A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
- polysyllable
- Having several syllables, especially more than three syllables.
- procrastinate
- To put off till tomorrow or till a future time.
- presentment
- Semblance.
- penetrable
- That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
- pitiful
- Wretched.
- preponderant
- Prevalent.
- posit
- To present in an orderly manner.
- primitive
- Pertaining to the beginning or early times.
- palate
- The roof of the mouth.
- probate
- Relating to making proof, as of a will.
- perturbation
- Mental excitement or confusio,
- prevalence
- Frequency.
- preponderate
- To exceed in influence or power.
- personality
- The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
- promenade
- To walk for amusement or exercise.
- prescription
- An authoritative directio,
- Protestant
- A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment.
- purl
- To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
- pension
- A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
- propeller
- One who or that which propels.
- probation
- Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like.
- Parisian
- Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
- pedigree
- One's line of ancestors.
- phonic
- Pertaining to the nature of sound.
- profligate
- Abandoned to vice.
- panorama
- A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
- pervasive
- Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
- pulmonary
- Pertaining to the lungs.
- parley
- To converse i,
- preexist
- To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
- prerogative
- Having superior rank or precedence.
- polyhedron
- A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
- perfumery
- The preparation of perfumes.
- promoter
- A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
- preexistence
- Existence antecedent to something.
- prelacy
- A system of church government.
- pageant
- A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
- procedure
- A manner or method of acting.
- premise
- A judgment as a conclusio,
- proctor
- An agent acting for another.
- possessive
- Pertaining to the having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command.
- petrify
- To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
- pyromania
- An insane propensity to set things on fire.
- pupilage
- The state or period of being a student.
- passible
- Capable of feeling of suffering.
- pall
- To make dull by satiety.
- proficiency
- An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
- postdate
- To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
- predicament
- A difficult, trying situation or plight.
- portfolio
- A portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc.
- pantomime
- Sign-language.
- possessor
- One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
- queue
- A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
- providential
- Effected by divine guidance.
- plenary
- Entire.
- practicable
- Feasible.
- parliament
- A legislative body.
- postscript
- Something added to a letter after the writer's signature.
- pungent
- Affecting the sense of smell.
- plebeian
- Commo,
- pleasant
- Agreeable.
- palliate
- To cause to appear less guilty.
- pleasurable
- Affording gratificatio,
- prelude
- An introductory or opening performance.
- paraphernalia
- Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
- prolong
- To extend in time or duratio,
- poetics
- The rules and principles of poetry.
- placid
- Serene.
- parentage
- The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.
- plutocracy
- A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
- pandemic
- Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
- quiescent
- Being in a state of repose or inactio,
- potential
- Anything that may be possible.
- permissible
- That may be allowed.
- prospector
- One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
- Pantheon
- A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
- preferment
- Preference.
- patronymic
- Formed after one's father's name.
- petulance
- The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
- pique
- To excite a slight degree of anger i,
- pedagogics
- The science and art of teaching.
- prototype
- A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit.
- packet
- A bundle, as of letters.
- poesy
- Poetry.
- philologist
- An expert in linguistics.
- pretension
- A bold or presumptuous assertio,
- quadrate
- To divide into quarters.
- pertinacity
- Unyielding adherence.
- protocol
- A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty.
- peripatetic
- Walking about.
- prefix
- To attach at the beginning.
- pommel
- To beat with something thick or bulky.
- philology
- The study of language in connection with history and literature.
- polemics
- The art of controversy or disputatio,
- pagan
- A worshiper of false gods.
- parlance
- Mode of speech.
- prosaic
- Unimaginative.
- planisphere
- A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
- persiflage
- Banter.
- proscenium
- That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
- preclude
- To prevent.
- pauperism
- Dependence on charity.
- polyarchy
- Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
- polygon
- A figure having many angles.
- persevere
- To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
- pungency
- The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
- physiocracy
- The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
- presentiment
- Foreboding.
- prevalent
- Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
- presumptuous
- Assuming too much.
- prepossession
- A preconceived liking.
- paralysis
- Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
- prudential
- Proceeding or marked by cautio,
- philately
- The study and collection of stamps.
- peccable
- Capable of sinning.
- presumption
- That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved.
- proscription
- Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
- precaution
- A provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger.
- priggish
- Conceited.
- quiet
- Making no noise.
- paraphrase
- Translate freely.
- perturb
- To disturb greatly.
- partition
- That which separates anything into distinct parts.
- piteous
- Compassionate.
- prohibitory
- Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- peddle
- To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
- paucity
- Fewness.
- patrimony
- An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
- privity
- Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
- pedant
- A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
- prominence
- The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
- pare
- To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
- pervade
- To pass or spread through every part.
- puerile
- Childish.
- palatial
- Magnificent.
- patrician
- Of senatorial or noble rank.
- perusal
- The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
- probe
- To search through and through.
- prim
- Stiffly proper.
- primer
- An elementary reading-book for childre,
- promissory
- Expressing an engagement to pay.
- personage
- A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high statio,
- perjure
- To swear falsely to.
- Pan-American
- Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
- progression
- A moving forward or proceeding in course.
- photometer
- Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
- prescriptible
- Derived from authoritative directio,
- perversion
- Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
- protective
- Sheltering.
- punctilious
- Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
- perform
- To accomplish.
- progeny
- Offspring.
- paleontology
- The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
- pentameter
- In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
- pyrotechnic
- Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture.
- potion
- A dose of liquid medicine.
- pedestrian
- One who journeys on foot.
- paramour
- One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
- proximately ad
- Immediately.
- proviso
- A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
- proscribe
- To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciatio,
- pillory
- A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scor,
- pervious
- Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
- pugnacious
- Quarrelsome.
- pedagogue
- A schoolmaster.
- premature
- Coming too soo,
- protuberate
- To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
- preempt
- To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
- poetaster
- An inferior poet.
- physiology
- The science of organic functions.
- prologue
- A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
- personal
- Not general or public.
- quintessence
- The most essential part of anything.
- parable
- A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
- precedent
- An instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
- phonetic
- Representing articulate sounds or speech.
- pluperfect
- Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or actio,
- permeate
- To pervade.
- pestilent
- Having a malign influence or effect.
- pentagon
- A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
- philosophy
- The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
- penchant
- A bias in favor of something.
- purgatory
- An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering.
- ponderous
- Unusually weighty or forcible.
- qualify
- To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
- pious
- Religious.
- precision
- Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
- preferable
- More desirable than others.
- prostrate
- Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
- panel
- A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
- perversity
- Wickedness.
- prescient
- Foreknowing.
- pudgy
- Small and fat.
- protection
- Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
- portent
- Anything that indicates what is to happe,
- prudery
- An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
- ponder
- To meditate or reflect upo,
- percolate
- To filter.
- perpetuate
- To preserve from extinction or oblivio,
- pristine
- Primitive.
- patter
- To mumble something over and over.
- photometry
- The art of measuring the intensity of light.
- preface
- A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
- penalty
- The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
- prelate
- One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
- punitive
- Pertaining to punishment.
- premier
- First in rank or positio,
- palsy
- Paralysis.
- perigee
- The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
- perseverance
- A persistence in purpose and effort.
- precarious
- Perilous.
- parse
- To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
- principal
- Most important.
- penury
- Indigence.
- professor
- A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college.
- parricide
- The murder of a parent.
- pennant
- A small flag.
- percipience
- The act of perceiving.
- prodigal
- One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
- parody
- To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.
- peddler
- One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
- percolator
- A filter.
- pioneer
- One among the first to explore a country.
- precede
- To happen first.
- prowess
- Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
- plasticity
- The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
- profligacy
- Shameless viciousness.
- perjury
- A solemn assertion of a falsity.
- pestilential
- having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
- possible
- Being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural.
- precipitant
- Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
- papacy
- The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- primeval
- Belonging to the first ages.
- pitiless
- Hard-hearted.
- purport
- Intent.
- parish
- The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.
- prate
- To talk about vainly or foolishly.
- pentahedron
- A solid bounded by five plane faces.
- precursor
- A forerunner or herald.
- pledgee
- The person to whom anything is pledged.
- paradox
- A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
- quadruple
- To multiply by four.
- piccolo
- A small flute.
- preordain
- To foreordai,
- perspicacious
- Astute.
- polytechnic
- Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.