SAT Vocab 14
Terms
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copy deck
- Parry; verb
- to ward off or deflect
- Parsimony; noun
- stinginess
- Pastiche; noun
- piece of literature or music imitating other works
- Paucity; noun
- scarcity, lack
- Peccadillo; noun
- minor sin or offense
- Pedagogue; noun
- teacher
- Pedant; noun
- uninspired, boring academic
- Pejorative; adj
- having bad connotations; disparaging
- Percipient; adj
- discerning, able to perceive
- Perdition; noun
- complete and utter loss; damnation
- Perfidious; adj
- faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
- Perfunctory; adj
- done in a routine way, indifferent
- Peripatetic; adj
- moving from place to place
- Permeable; adj
- penetrable
- Pernicious; adj
- very harmful
- Perspicacious; adj
- shrewd, astute, keen-witted
- Pertinacious; adj
- persistaent, stubborn
- Pestilence; noun
- epidemic, plague
- Petulance, noun
- rudeness, peevishness
- Phlegmatic; adj
- sluggish; calm in temperament
- Pilfer; verb
- to steal
- Pithy; adj
- profound, substantial, concise, succinct, to the point
- Pittance; noun
- meager amount or wage
- Placate; verb
- to soothe or pacify
- Ply; verb
- to join together; to use diligently; to engage
- Polemic; noun
- controversy, arguement; verbal attack
- Pontificate; verb
- to speak in a pretentious manner
- Precipitate; adj
- sudden and unexpected
- Precipitate; verb
- to cause to happen; to throw down from height
- Predilection; noun
- preference, liking