TAC Unit 22 Vocabulary--9th grade
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- passive
- taking an inactive or submissive role
- patrician
- a person with refined upbringing, manners, or taste
- phenomenal
- exceptional; very, very special or out of the ordinary
- philanthropist
- a very wealthy person who gives money away for a good cause
- pictorial
- something represented using pictures rather than words
- pillage
- To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder
- pinnacle
- the highest point
- placid
- calm
- plastic
- flexible; also, a common material used to make things
- plausible
- easy to believe
- politic
- Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; shrewd, cunning
- pollute
- contaminate
- populous
- a lot of people living in a small area
- portentous
- an advanced warning
- potential
- possible; one's possibilities
- practicable
- possible; able to put something into practice
- precision
- exact; something done in an exact way without making any mistakes
- preoccupied
- Excessively concerned with something; distracted
- preposterous
- absurd or extremely foolish
- prescribe
- To establish laws, rules, or directions