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SAT words from 'pedagogy' to 'perfidy'

Words alphabetically from 'pedagogy' to 'perfidy' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/

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pedagogy
The science and art of teaching
pedal
A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines.
pedant
A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
peddle
To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
pedestal
A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
pedestrian
One who journeys on foot.
pediatrics
The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
pedigree
One's line of ancestors.
peddler
One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
peerage
The nobility.
peerless
Of unequaled excellence or worth.
peevish
Petulant. (irritable)
pellucid
Translucent.
penalty
The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
penance
Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of penitence.
penchant
A bias in favor of something.
pendant
Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
pendulous
Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
pendulum
A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
penetrable
That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
penetrate
To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
penetration
Discernment.
peninsular
Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
penitence
Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
penitential
Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
pennant
A small flag.
pension
A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
pentagram
A figure having five points or lobes.
pentavalent
Quinqeuvalent.
pentad
The number five.
pentagon
A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides.
pentahedron
A solid bounded by five plane faces.
pentameter
In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.
pentathlon
The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
penultimate
A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
penurious
Excessively sparing in the use of money.
penury
Indigence.
perambulate
To walk about.
perceive
To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
perceptible
Cognizable.
perception
Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world.
percipience
The act of perceiving.
percipient
One who or that which perceives.
percolate
To filter.
percolator
A filter.
percussion
The sharp striking of one body against another.
peremptory
Precluding question or appeal.
perennial
Continuing though the year or through many years.
perfectible
Capable of being made perfect.
perfidy
Treachery.

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