Flashcards: Bowyer 24
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kasielasserre1 on February 22, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 penury | extreme poverty |
| piety | devoutness |
| pilfer | to steal |
| pillage | to loot, especially during a war |
| pinnacle | peak, highest point of development |
| pious | dedicated, devout, extremely religious |
| pique | fleeting feeling of hurt pride |
| pithy | profound, substantial; concise, succinct, to the point |
| pittance | meager amount or wage |
| placate | to soothe or pacify |
| plagiarist | one who steals wrods or ideas |
| plaintiff | an injured person in a lawsuit |
| plait | to braid |
| platitude | a stale, overused expression |
| plebeian | crude, vulger, low class |
| plethora | excess, over abundance |
| pliant | pliable, yeilding |
| plucky | courageous, spunky |
| poignant | emotionally moving (pathos) |
| polarize | to tend toward opposite extremes |
| polemic | controversary, argument; verbal attack |
| polyglot | someone who speaks many languages |
| ponderous | weighty, heavy, large |
| pontificate | speak in a pretencious manner |
| pore | to study closely or metitativelyl |
| portent | omen |
| portly | stout, dignified |
| posit | to put in position; to suggest an idea |
| posterity | future generations; all of a person's decendents |
| potable | drinkable |
| potentate | monarch or ruler with great power |
| prattle | meaningless, foolish talk |
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