psat vocab 451-500
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- painstaking
- expending or showing diligent care and great effort
- palatable
- agreeable; pleasing to the taste
- pallid
- pale; wan
- panacea
- cure-all; remedy for all diseases
- pandemonium
- wild tumult
- parable
- short tale illustrating a moral principle
- paragon
- model of perfection
- partisan
- one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
- pastoral
- rural; simple and peaceful; idyllic; relating to shepherds
- pedantic
- showing off learning; bookish
- peerless
- having to equal; imcomparable
- perdition
- damnation; complete ruin
- peremptory
- demanding and leaving no choice
- perfidious
- treacherous; disloyal
- perfunctory
- superficial; not thorough; lakcing interest, care, or enthusiasm
- perjury
- false testimony while under oath
- permutation
- transformation; rearragnement of elements
- perpetrate
- commit an offense
- perpetual
- everlasting
- perturbation
- mental agitation
- peruse
- read with care
- pervasive
- pervading; spread throughout every part
- perverse
- stubbornly wrongheaded;
- petulant
- touchy; peevish
- phlegmatic
- not easily excited to action or emtional displays; calm; sluggish
- pique
- provoke or arouse; annoy; irritation; resentment
- placate
- pacify; conciliate
- placid
- calm; peaceful
- pragmatic
- practical point of view
- premise
- a proposition supporting a conclusion
- prudent
- wise or judicious in practical affairs, discreet
- recluse
- someone who lives in isolation, seclusion
- repudiate
- to reject, cut off, disown w/ disapproval
- reticent
- silent reserved, reluctant, restrained, diffident?
- reverent
- deeply respectful, reverence
- sagacious
- shrewd
- stoic
- showing no emotion, passion unmoved by joy or grief
- stratagem
- a plan, scheme, trick for suprising, deceiving enemy
- subversive
- to cause the downfall, destruction of (to overthrow, undermine principles)
- taciturn
- inclined to silence, reluctant to join conversation (diffident, reticent)
- transcendent
- superior, supreme, going beyond ordinary limits, exceeding
- trepidation
- tremulous fear, alarm, agitation, perturbation, trembling
- urbane
- sophisticated characteristics, elegance
- vacillate
- to waver in opinion, sway, indecisive
- voracious
- craving, consuming large quantities of food, exceedingly ear or avid