Word Smart 3rd Tri Cumulative
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pearlbasinski on May 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 PRODIGIOUS | extraordinary; enormous |
| PRODIGY | an extremely talented child; an extraordinary accomplishment or occurrence |
| PROFANE | not having to do with religion; irreverent; blasphemous |
| PROFESS | to declare; to declare falsely or pretend |
| PROFICIENT | thoroughly competent; skillful; good (at something) |
| PROFLIGATE | extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral |
| PROFOUND | deep (in several senses) |
| PROFUSE | flowing; extravagantly |
| PROLETARIAT | the industrial working class |
| PROLIFERATE | to spread or grow rapidly |
| PROLIFIC | abundantly productive; fruitful or fertile |
| PROMULGATE | to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something |
| PROPENSITY | a natural inclination or tendency; a predilection |
| PROPITIOUS | marked by favorable sins or conditions |
| PROPONENT | an advocate; a supporter of an position |
| PROPRIETARY | characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property |
| PROPRIETY | properness; good manners |
| PROSAIC | dull; unimaginative; like prose (as opposed to poetry) |
| PROSCRIBE | to outlaw; to prohibit |
| PROSELYTIZE | to convert (someone) from one religion or doctrine to another; to recruit converts to a religion or doctrine |
| PROTAGONIST | the leading character in a novel, play, or other work; a leader or champion |
| PROTRACT | to prolong |
| PROVIDENT | preparing for the future; providing for the future; frugal |
| PROVINCIAL | limited in outlook to one's own small corner of the world; narrow |
| PROVISIONAL | conditional; temporary; tentative |
| PROXIMITY | nearness |
| PRUDENT | careful; having foresight |
| PURPORTED | rumored; claimed |
| PUTATIVE | commonly accepted; supposed; reputed |
| PRO | much, for, a lot |
| VID/VIS | to see |
| QUALIFY | to modify or restrict |
| QUALITATIVE | having to do with the quality or qualities of something (as opposed to the quantity) |
| QUERULOUS | complaining; grumbling; whining |
| QUIXOTIC | romantic or idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree |
| RAMIFICATION | a consequence; a branching out |
| RANCOR | bitter, long-lasting ill will or resentment |
| RAPACIOUS | greedy; plundering; avaricious |
| REBUKE | to criticize sharply |
| REBUT | to contradict; to argue in opposition to; to prove tot be false |
| RECALCITRANT | stubbornly defiant of authority or control; disobedient |
| REACTANT | to publicly take back and deny (something previously said or believed) to openly confess error |
| RECIPROCAL | mutual; shared; interchangeable |
| RECLUSIVE | hermitlike; withdrawn from society |
| RECONDITE | hard to understand; over one's head |
| RECRIMINATION | a bitter counteraccusation, or the act of making a bitter counteraccusation |
| REDOLENT | fragrant |
| REDUNDANT | unnecessarily respective; excessive; excessively wordy |
| REFUTE | to prove to be false; to disprove |
| REITERATE | to say again; to repeat |
| RELEGATE | to banish; to send away |
| RELENTLESS | continuous; unstoppable |
| RELINQUISH | to release or let go of; to surrender; to stop doing |
| REMONSTRATE | to argue against; to protest; to raise objections |
| RENAISSANCE | a birth or revival |
| RENOUNCE | to give up formally or resign; to disown; to have nothing to do with anymore |
| NAT/NAS/NAI | to be born |
| NOUNC/NUNC | to announce |
| CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT | to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide |
| CLA/CLO/CLU | shut, close |
| REPARATION | paying back; making amends; compensation |
| REPERCUSSION | a consequence; an indirect effect |
| REPLENISH | to fill again; to resupply; to restore |
| REPLETE | completely filled; abounding |
| REPREHENSIBLE | worthy of severe blame or censure |
| REPRISAL | a military action undertaken in revenge for another; an act of taking "an eye for an eye" |
| REPROACH | to scold, usually in disappointment; to blame; to disgrace |
| REPROVE | to criticize mildly |
| REPUDIATE | to reject; to renounce; to disown; to have nothing to do with |
| REQUISITE | required; necessary |
| RESOLUTE | determined; firm; unwavering |
| RESPITE | a period of rest or relief |
| RETICENT | quiet; restrained; reluctant to speak, especially about oneself |
| REVERE | to respect highly; to honor |
| RHETORIC | the art of formal speaking or writing; inflated discourse |
| RIGOROUS | strict; harsh; severe |
| ROBUST | strong and healthy; vigorous |
| ROUGE | a criminally dishonest person; a scoundrel |
| RUDIMENTARY | basic; crude; unformed or undeveloped |
| RUMINATE | to contemplate; to ponder; to mull over |
| RUSTIC | rural; lacking urban comforts or sophistication; primitive |
| SACCHARINE | sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet |
| SACRILEGE | a violation of something sacred; blasphemy |
| SACROSANCT | sacred; held t be inviolable |
| SAGACIOUS | discerning; shrewd; keen in judgment; wise |
| SALIENT | sticking out; conspicuous; leaping |
| SALUTARY | healthful; remedial; curative |
| SANCTIMONOUS | pretending to be devout; affecting religious feeling |
| SANGUINE | cheerful; optimistic; hopeful |
| SARDONIC | mocking; scornful |
| SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT | to leap, to jump |
| SACR/SANCT/SECR | sacred |
| SCINTILLATE | to sparkle, either literally or figuratively |
| SCRUPULOUS | strict; careful; hesitant of ethical reasons |
| SCRUTINIZE | to examine very carefully |
| SECULAR | having nothing to o with religion or spiritual concerns |
| SEDITION | treason; the incitement public disorder or rebellion |
| SEGREGATE | to separate |
| SENSORY | having to do with the senses or sensation |
| SENTIENT | able to perceive by the senses; conscious |
| SEQUESTER | to set or keep apart |
| SERENDIPITY | accidental good fortune; discovering good things without looking for them |
| SERVILE | submissive and subservient; like a servant |
| SINGULAR | unique; superior; exceptional; strange |
| SINISTER | evil, wicked; foreshadowing evil, trouble, or wickedness |
| SLANDER | to speak badly about someone publicly; to defame; to spread malicious rumor |
| SLOTH | laziness; sluggishness |
| SOBRIETY | the state of being sober; seriousness |
| SOLICITOUS | eager and attentive, often to the point of hovering; anxiously caring or attentive |
| SOVENT | nit broke or bankrupt; able to pay one's bills |
| SOPORIFIC | sleep inducing; boring; sleepy |
| SORID | vile; filthy; squalid |
| SPAWN | to bring forth; to produce a large number |
| SPECIOUS | deceptively plausible or attractive |
| SPORADIC | stopping and starting; scattered; occurring |
| SPURIOUS | false; fake |
| SQUALOR | filths; wretched, degraded, or repulsive living conditions |
| SQUANDER | to waste |
| STAGNATION | motionlessness; inactivity |
| STATIC | stationary; not changing or moving |
| STAUNCH | firmly committed; firmly in favor of; steadfast |
| STEADFAST | loyal; faithful |
| STIGMATIZE | to brand with disgrace; to set a mark of disgrace upon |
| STIPULATE | to require something as part of an agreement |
| STOIC | indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain, joy or grief, to fortune or misfortune |
| STRATUM | a layer; a level |
| STRICTURE | a restriction; a limitation; a negative criticism |
| SE | apart |
| SED/SESS/SID | to sit, to be still, to plan, to plot |
| SENS/SENT | to feel, to be aware |
| SOL | to loosen, to free |
| SPEC/SPIC/SPIT | to look, to see |
| STA/STI | to stand, to be in a place |
| CUB/CUMB | to lie down |
| TENET | a shared principle or belief |
| TENATIVE | experimental; temporary; uncertain |
| TENUOUS | flimsy; extremely thin |
| TERSE | using no unnecessary words; succinct |
| THEOLOGY | the study of God or religion |
| TIRADE | a prolonged, bitter speech |
| TORPOR | sluggishness; inactivity; apathy |
| TOUCHSTONE | a standard; a test of authenticity or quality |
| TOUT | to praise highly; to brad publicly about |
| TRANSCEND | to go beyond or above; to surpass |
| TRANSGRESS | to violate (a law); to sin |
| TRANSIENT | not staying for a long time temporary |
| TREPIDATEION | fear; apprehension; nervous trembling |
| TURPITUDE | shameful wickedness; depravity |
| UBIQUITOUS | being everywhere at the same time |
| UNCONSCIONABLE | not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous |
| UNCTUOUS | oily, both literally and figuratively; insincere |
| UNIFORM | consistent; unchanging; the same for everyone |
| UNREMITTING | unceasing; unabated; relentless |
| UNWITTING | unintentional; ignorant; not aware |
| URBANE | poised; sophisticated; refined |
| USURP | to seize wrongfully |
| UTILITARIAN | stressing usefulness or utility above all other qualities; pragmatic |
| UTOPIA | an ideal society |
| TEND/TRANS/TENT/TENU | to hold |
| THEO | god |
| TRANS | across |
| US/UT | to use |
| VASCILLATE | to be indecisive; to waver |
| VAPID | without liveliness; dull; spiritless |
| VEHEMENT | intense; forceful; violent |
| VENAL | capable of being bribed; willing to do anything for money; corrupt |
| VENERATE | to revere; to treat as something holy, especially because of great age |
| VERACITY | truthfulness |
| VERBOSE | using too many words; not succinct; circumlocutory |
| VERISMILITUDE | similarly to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing |
| VERNACULAR | everyday speech; slang; idiom |
| VESTIGE | a remaining bit of something; a last trace |
| VEX | to annoy; to pester; to confuse |
| VIABLE | capable of living; workable |
| VICARIOUS | experienced, performed, or suffered through someone else; living through the experience of another as though they were one's own experiences |
| VICISSITUDE | upheaval; natural change; change in fortune |
| VILIFY | to say vile things about; to defame |
| VINDICATE | to clear formal blame or suspicion; to justify |
| VINDICTIVE | seeking revenge |
| VIRTUOSO | a masterful musician; a master practitioner in some other field |
| VIRULENT | extremely poisonous; malignant; full of hate |
| VISONARY | a dreamer; someone with impractical goals or ideas about he future |
| VITATE | to make impure; to pollute |
| VITRIOLIC | caustic; full of bitterness |
| VOCATION | an occupation; a job |
| VOIFEROUS | loud; noisy |
| VOLATILE | quick to evaporate; highly unstable; explosive |
| VOLITION | will; conscious choice |
| WANTON | malicious; unjustifiable; unprovoked; egregious |
| Willful | deliberate; obstinate; insistent on having one's way |
| WISTFUL | yearning; sadly longing |
| ZEALOUS | enthusiastically devoted to something; fervent |
| VER | truth |
| VOC/VOK | to call |
| VOL | to wish |
| PERVADE | to spread throughout |
| PETULANT | rude; cranky; ill-tempered |
| PHILANTHROPY | love of mankind, especially by doing good deeds |
| PHILISTINE | a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters |
| PIOUS | reverent or devout; outwardly (and sometimes falsely) reverent or devout; hypocritical |
| PIVOTAL | crucial |
| PLACATE | to pacify; to appease; to soothe |
| PLAINTIVE | expressing sadness or sorrow |
| PLATITUDE | a dull or trite remark; a cliche |
| PLEBEIAN | common; vulgar; low-class |
| PLETHORA | an excess |
| POIGNANT | painful emotional; extremely moving; sharp or astute |
| POLARIZE | to break up into opposing factions or groupings |
| POLEMIC | a powerful argument often made to attack or refute a controversial issue |
| PONDEROUS | so large as to be clumsy; massive; dull |
| PORTENT | an omen; a sign of something coming in the future |
| POSTULATE | something accepted as true without proof; an axiom |
| PRAGMATIC | practical; down to earth; based on experience rather than theory |
| PRECEDENT | an earlier example or model of something |
| PRECEPT | a rule to live by; a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior; a maxim |
| PRECIPITATE | to cause to happen abruptly |
| PRECIPITOUS | steep |
| PRECLUDE | to prevent something from ever happening |
| PRECURSOR | forerunner; something that goes before and anticipates or paves the way for whatever it is that follows |
| PREDILECTION | a natural preference for something |
| PREEMINENT | better than anyone else; outstanding; supreme |
| PREEMPT | to seize something by prior right |
| PREMISE | an assumption; the basis for a conclusion |
| PREPOSSESS | to preoccupy; to influence beforehand or prejudice; to make a good impression on beforehand |
| PREROGATIVE | a right or privilege connected exclusively with a position a person, a class, a nation, or some other group or classification |
| PREVAIL | to triumph; to overcome rivals; (with on, upon, or with) to persuade |
| PRISTINE | original; unspoiled; pure |
| PRODIGAL | wastefully extravagant |
| PHIL | love |
| PLAC | to please |
| PLE | to fill |
| PRE | before |
| PATENT | obvious |
| PATERNAL | fatherly; fatherlike |
| PATHOLOGY | the science of diseases |
| PATRIARCH | the male head of a family or tribe |
| PATRICIAN | a person of noble birth; an aristocrat |
| PATRONIZE | to treat as an inferior; to condescend to |
| PAUCITY | scarcity |
| PECCADILLO | a minor offense |
| PEDANTIC | boringly scholarly or academic |
| PEDESTRIAN | unimaginative; banal |
| PEJORATIVE | negative; disparaging |
| PENCHANT | a strong taste or liking for something; a predilection |
| PENITENT | sorry; repentant; contrite |
| PENSIVE | thoughtful and sad |
| PEREMPTORY | final; categorical; dictatorial |
| PERENNIAL | continual; happening again and again or year after year |
| PERFIDY | treachery |
| PERFUNCTORY | unenthusiastic; careless |
| PERIPATETIC | wandering; traveling continually; itinerant |
| PERIPHERY | the outside edge of something |
| PERJURY | lying under oath |
| PERMEATE | to spread or seep through; to penetrate |
| PERNICIOUS | deadly; extremely evil |
| PERQUISITE | a privilege that goes along with a job; a "perk" |
| PERTINENT | relevant; dealing with the matter at hand |
| PERTURB | to disturb greatly |
| PERUSE | to read carefully |
| PAS/PAT/PATH | feeling, suffering, disease |
| PATER/PATR | father, support |
| PED/POD | food |
| PEN/PUN | to pay, to compensate |
| PER | completely wrong |
| PERI | around |
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