#12 Vocabulary
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svarelalsu on January 30, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 paternal | fatherly |
| patriarch | father and ruler |
| patricide | killing one's father |
| patrilineal | kinship through the father |
| pacifism | opposition to war |
| pacify | to make peaceful |
| impecunious | poor |
| pecuniary | involving money |
| perfuse | to pour on or through |
| permeate | to pass through |
| plebeian | one of the common people |
| plebiscite | expression of the people's will by ballot |
| portal | doorway |
| portcullis | door of iron bars |
| export | to carry out |
| portable | able to be carried |
| portage | carrying |
| postdiluvian | after the flood |
| posthumous | after death |
| postmeridian | after noon |
| postnatal | after birth |
| postnuptual | after marriage |
| preterhuman | superhuman |
| preternatural | abnormal |
| primacy | supremacy |
| primal | first |
| primer | a first book |
| primeval | of the earliest ages |
| primapara | woman who is pregnant for the first time |
| primogenitor | first ancestor |
| primogeniture | being the firstborn |
| primordial | first in time |
| pugilism | boxing |
| pugnacious | ready to fight |
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