SAT Vocab (Palliate-Probity)
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- Perfidious
- disloyal, unfaithful
- Persipicacity
- shrewdness, perceptiveness
- Phlegmatic
- uninterested, unresponsive
- Paragon
- a model of excellence or perfection
- Palliate
- to reduce the severity of
- Parsimony
- frugality, stinginess
- Presumptuous
- disrespectfully bold
- Penultimate
- next to last
- Prescribe
- to lay down a rule
- Polemic
- an aggressive argument against a specific opinion
- Preponderance
- superiority in importance or quantity
- Pretense
- an appearance or action intended to deceive
- Placate
- to ease the anger of, soothe
- Plaudits
- enthusiastic approval, applause
- Plenitude
- an abundance
- Platitude
- an uninspired remark, cliché
- Pathos
- an emotion of sympathy
- Pervasive
- having the tendency to spread throughout
- Paradigm
- an example that is a perfect pattern or model
- Perfunctory
- showing little interest or enthusiasm
- Prescient
- to have foreknowledge of events
- Pertinacious
- stubbornly persistent
- Pithy
- concisely meaningful
- Preclude
- to prevent
- Panacea
- a remedy for all ills or difficulties
- Petulance
- rudeness, irritability
- Penchant
- a tendency, partiality, preference
- Pejorative
- small in quantity
- Predilection
- a preference or inclination for something
- Potentate
- one who has great power, a ruler
- Penurious
- miserly, stingy
- Pathology
- a deviation from the normal
- Pittance
- a very small amount, especially relating to money
- Pragmatic
- practical
- Pallid
- lacking color
- Presage
- an omen
- Pariah
- an outcast
- Pernicious
- extremely destructive or harmful
- Precocious
- advanced, developing ahead of time
- Privation
- lacking basic necessities
- Potable
- suitable for drinking
- Precipice
- the face of a cliff, a steep or overhanging place
- Pert
- flippant, bold
- Paucity
- small in quantity
- Pellucid
- easily intelligible, clear
- Poignant
- deeply affecting, moving
- Prepossessing
- occupying the mind to the exclusion of other thoughts or feelings
- Portent
- an omen
- Probity
- virtue, integrity
- Penitent
- remorseful, regretful