8th Grade Spelling Words Week 6
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Profane | not having to do with religion; irreverent; blasphemous |
| Proficient | thoroughly competent; skillful; good (at something) |
| Profess | to declare; to declare falsely or pretend |
| Profligate | extravagantly wasteful and, usually, wildly immoral |
| Profound | deep (in several senses) |
| Profuse | flowing; extravagant |
| 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 signs or conditions |
| Proponent | an advocate; a supporter of a position |
| Proprietary | characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property |
| Propriety | properness, good manners |
| Prosaic | a dull; unimaginative; like prose as opposed to poetry |
| Proselytize | v to convert someone from one religion or doctrine to another; to recruit converts to a religion or doctrine |
| Proscribe | to outlaw; to prohibit |
| Protagonist | n the leading character in a novel play or other work; a leader or champion |
| Protract | to prolong |
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