SAT WORDS: P part 2
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14 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pensive | engaged in deep, often sad, thought |
| penurious | parsimonious (stingy not sharey) poverty (which relates with penury) |
| penury | poverty; destitution |
| destitution | a state without friends or money or prospects |
| perfidious | dishonest ( with an evil connotation) |
| connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word |
| perfunctory | done routinely, carelessly, and listlessly |
| permeable | capable of being permeated |
| permeate | to spread or flow through |
| perspicacious | perceptive; understanding |
| perceptive | having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation |
| petulant | unreasonably irritable or ill tempered |
| philanthropy | improvement of the world through charity; love of humanity in general |
| pillage | to rob violently |
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