Quizlet PSIA 201-250

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  1. oscillate: To swing back and forth.
  2. palate: The roof of the mouth.
  3. pallid: Of a pale or wan appearance.
  4. palpable: perceptible by feeling or touch.
  5. paradox: A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
  6. paragon: A model of excellence.
  7. paroxysm: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
  8. parsimonious: Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
  9. paucity: Fewness.
  10. peccant: Guilty.
  11. pecuniary: Consisting of money
  12. perfidy: Treachery.
  13. pernicious: Tending to kill or hurt.
  14. persevere: To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
  15. pertinacious: Persistent or unyielding.
  16. phlegmatic: Not easily roused to feeling or action.
  17. pillage: Open mobbery, as in war
  18. placate: To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
  19. plenary: Entire.
  20. plurality: A majority.
  21. pneumatic: Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
  22. precipice: A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
  23. premonition: Foreboding.
  24. preposterous: Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
  25. prerogative: Having superior rank or precedence.
  26. presage: To foretell.
  27. pristine: Primitive.
  28. probity: Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
  29. profligacy: Shameless viciousness.
  30. propitious: Kindly disposed.
  31. propriety: Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
  32. protuberant: Bulging.
  33. pseudonym: A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
  34. purloin: To steal.
  35. quadrate: To divide into quarters.
  36. qualm: A fit of nausea.
  37. quandary: A puzzling predicament.
  38. quay: A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
  39. querulous: Habitually complaining
  40. quiescence: Quiet.
  41. raillery: Good-humored satire.
  42. rancor: Malice.
  43. rapacious: Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
  44. recapitulate: To repeat again the principal points of.
  45. reciprocal: Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
  46. recluse: One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
  47. redolent: Smelling sweet and agreeable
  48. refute: To prove to be wrong.
  49. relent: To yield.