Advanced Hit Parade Subset 5
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52 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pique | resentment; to annoy, irritate, or offend; to excite, provoke, or arouse |
| placebo | inactive pill prescribed for mental relief rather than for physical effect; something tending to soothe |
| plangent | pounding, thundering, resounding |
| plumb | to measure the depth; to examine critically |
| poignant | distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional |
| poseur | affected or insincere person; literally, a poser |
| prate | to chatter, to babble, as in prattle |
| precept | rule establishing standards of conduct |
| preempt | to replace; to supersede; to appropriate |
| prolix | long winded; verbose |
| propinquity | nearness in place or time; affinity of nature |
| provident | frugal; looking to the future |
| puerile | childish; immature |
| pugnacious | contentious; quarrelsome; contumacious; given to fighting; belligerent |
| puissance | power; strength |
| punctilious | precise; paying attention to trivialities; especially in regard to etiquette |
| pusillanimous | cowardly; craven |
| raffish | tawdry; flashy; meretricious; low; vulgar; base |
| ramify | to be divided or subdivided; to branch out |
| rapacious | voracious; greedy; plundering |
| rebus | riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
| recondite | abstruse; profound; arcane |
| reconnaissance | preliminary survey to gain information, especially of an enemy |
| reconnoiter | to engage in reconnaissance |
| recreant | coward; cowardly; craven; pusillanimous |
| recumbent | leaning; resting; prone |
| redolent | fragrant; suggestive or evocative |
| regale | to delight or entertain; to feast |
| remonstrate | to protest; to object |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent; to long for |
| rubric | heading, title or category |
| rue | to regret; to feel remorse or sorrow |
| runic | mysterious; magical |
| sagacious | having sound judgment; perceptive; wise |
| salacious | obscene |
| salutary | wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health |
| sanctimony | self-righteousness |
| sanguine | cheerful; confident; optimistic |
| satiate | to surfeit; to overindulge |
| saturnine | gloomy; dark; sullen; morose |
| seine | a large net dragged to catch fish |
| seminal | like a seed; constituting a source; originative |
| sententious | aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
| sidereal | astral; relating to stars or constellations |
| simper | to smirk; a silly smile |
| sinecure | position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income |
| sinuous | winding; undulating; serpentine |
| slake | to satisfy or quench |
| sodden | soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull |
| solder | to weld, fuse, or join |
| sophistry | fallacious reasoning; faulty logic |
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