| Term | Definition |
|---|
| plaintive | mournful melancholy sorrowful |
| plaque | flat metal on a wall as a memorial |
| platitude | a trite or banal statement unoriginality |
| plea | request |
| plead | address a court of law as an advocate |
| plethora | glut |
| pliant | pliable easily bent shaped or twisted |
| plod | continue doing something without resting |
| pluck | pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers) |
| plumb | get to the root of |
| plummet | fall plunge steeply |
| plunge | move quickly suddenly and with force |
| poignant | deeply moving keen |
| poncho | large piece of cloth |
| ponderous | heavy bulky dull |
| portent | omen marvelous threatening |
| precarious | uncertain risky dangerous |
| precepts | rules establishing standards of conduct |
| preclude | prevent make impossible |
| precursory | preliminary anticipating |
| predilection | special liking mental preference |
| predominate | have more power than others |
| preen | tidy/show self-satisfaction |
| premature | doing or happening something before the right time |
| preponderance | greatness in number strength weight |
| presage | warning sign |
| presumption | arrogance |
| preternatural | not normal or usual |
| prevalent | common |
| prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth |
| prim | neat formal |
| pristine | primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated |
| probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle |
| proclivity | inclination |
| procrastination | keeping on putting off |
| prodigal | wasteful reckless with money |
| prodigious | enormous wonderful |
| profane | worldly having contempt for God |
| profligacy | shameless immorality |
| profligate | wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant |
| profundity | depth |
| profuse | abundant/lavish |
| proliferate | grow reproduce by rapid multification |
| prolix | tiring because too long |
| prone | prostrate inclined to (undesirable things) |
| propagation | increasing the number spreading extending |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
| propitiatory | conciliatory appeasing mitigating |
| propitious | auspicious presenting favorable circumstances |
| prosaic | everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian |
| proscribe | denounce as dangerous |
| protracted | prolonged |
| provident | frugal looking to the future |
| provisional | of the present time only |
| provoke | make angry vax |
| prudence | careful forethought |
| prudish | easily shocked excessively modest |
| prune | dried plum silly person |
| pry | get something inquire too curiously |
| pucker | wrinkle |
| pugnacious | fond of in the habit of fighting |
| puissance | strength |
| punctilious | precise paying attention to trivialities |
| pundit | pedant authority on a subject |
| pungency | sharpness stinging quality |
| purvey | provide supply |
| pusillanimous | cowardly craven |
| putrefaction | becoming rotten |
| pyre | large pile of wood for burning |
| quack | person dishonestly claiming to something |
| quaff | drink deeply |
| quail | lose courage turn frightened |
| qualm | feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness |
| quandary | state of doubt or perplexity |
| quell | suppress subdue |
| quibble | try to avoid by sophistication |
| quiescence | state of being passive/motionless |
| quiescent | at rest dormant torpid |
| quirk | habit or action peculiar to smb or something |
| quixotic | generous unselfish |
| quotidian | banal everyday |
| rabble | mob crowd the lower classes of populace |
| raconteur | person who tells anecdotes |
| raffish | low vulgar base tawdry |
| ramify | to be divided or subdivided to branch out |
| rancorous | feeling bitterness spitefulness |
| rant | use extravagant language |
| rapacious | greedy (esp for money) |
| rarefy | to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine |
| rave | act with excessive enthusiasm |
| reactionary | opposing progress |
| rebuff | snub |
| recalcitrant | disobedient |
| recant | take back as being FALSE give up |
| recast | cast or fashion anew |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| reciprocity | granting of privileges in return for similar |
| recitals | a number of performance of music |
| recluse | person who lives alone and avoids people |
| recompense | make payment to reward punish |
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