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.