Flashcards: Bowyer 23
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kasielasserre1 on February 14, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pastiche | peice of music or literature imitating other work |
| pathogenic | causing disease |
| pathos | pity, compassion |
| patrician | aristocrat |
| patrimony | inheritance or heritage derived from one's father |
| patronize | to condescend to, dispariage; to buy from |
| paucity | scarcity, lack |
| pauper | very poor person |
| peccadillo | minor sin or offense |
| peculation | theft of money or goods |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| pedant | uninspired, boring academic |
| pejorative | having bad conotations, dispairaging |
| pellucid | transparent, translucent; easily understood |
| penitent | expressing sorrow for sins or offenses, repentant |
| pensive | thoughtful |
| penultimate | next to last |
| penumbra | partial shadow |
| perambulator | baby carriage |
| percipient | disearning, able to perceive |
| perdition | complete and utter loss; damnation |
| peregrinate | to wander from place to place |
| perfidious | faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy |
| perfunctory | done in a routine way; indifferent |
| perihelion | point in an orbit nearest to the sun |
| peripatetic | moving from place to place |
| perjure | to tell a lie under oath |
| pernicious | very harmful |
| perspicacious | shrud, astoot, keenwitted |
| pertinacious | persistant, stubborn |
| perturbation | disturbance |
| perusal | close examination |
| petulance | rudeness, peevishness |
| phalanx | mass group of soldiers, people, or things |
| philistine | narrowminded person, someone lacking appreciation for art or culture |
| philology | the study of words |
| phlegmatic | calm in tempermant, sluggish |
| phobia | anxiety, horror |
| phoenix | mythical, immortal bird which lives for 500 years, burns itself to death and rises from its ashes |
| phonetics | study of speech sounds |
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