Shelnut vocab 10 ONE
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- Presentiment
- A dreaded fear or foreboading
- Progeny
- descendants, children, offspring
- Predecessor
- someone or something that comes before
- Profligate
- given over to indulgence; recklessly wasteful; widly extravagant
- Proletarian
- a member of the lowest social or economic class of a community; the laboring class (prole--slang)
- Procure
- to obtain
- Portentous
- warning of evil; ominous
- Prolific
- abundant in productivity or growth
- Precipitous
- steep or overly hasty; falling,flowing or rush with steep descent
- Prevaricate
- to lie, to not tell the truth
- Pontificate
- to act like a pontiff; to speak in a pompous or arrogant manner
- Predilection
- a preference; a prepossession in favor or something; partiality
- Prima donna
- a high strung, vain person; a female lead in a play
- Post war
- occuring after war
- Presumptuous
- overstepping due bounds; taking boundries
- Polyarchy
- a rule by many
- Prodigy
- a marvel, wonder; a person, esp. a child, with extradinary talent
- Ponderous
- having great weight; unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull
- Prescience
- foreknowledge of events; forsight; prudence
- Prevalent
- in general use or acceptance; widespread
- Pretentious
- claiming to be important; showing off wealth
- Presage
- to forewarn
- Portend
- to warn, to warn of the future
- Posthumous
- occuring after death
- Procreate
- to engender, generate, to create a new life