Quizlet SAT words from 'pervert' to 'pioneer'

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  1. pervert: One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false.
  2. pervious: Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
  3. pestilence: A raging epidemic.
  4. pestilent: Having a malign influence or effect.
  5. pestilential: having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
  6. peter: To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
  7. petrify: To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
  8. petulance: The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant.
  9. petulant: Displaying impatience.
  10. pharmacopoeia: A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
  11. pharmacy: The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
  12. phenomenal: Extraordinary or marvelous.
  13. phenomenon: Any unusual occurrence.
  14. philander: To play at courtship with a woman.
  15. philanthropic: Benevolent.
  16. philanthropist: One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
  17. philanthropy: Active humanitarianism.
  18. philately: The study and collection of stamps.
  19. philharmonic: Fond of music.
  20. philogynist: One who is fond of women.
  21. philologist: An expert in linguistics.
  22. philology: The study of language in connection with history and literature.
  23. philosophize: To seek ultimate causes and principles.
  24. philosophy: The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
  25. phlegmatic: Not easily roused to feeling or action.
  26. phonetic: Representing articulate sounds or speech.
  27. phonic: Pertaining to the nature of sound.
  28. phonogram: A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
  29. phonology: The science of human vocal sounds.
  30. phosphorescence: The property of emitting light.
  31. photoelectric: Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
  32. photometer: Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
  33. photometry: The art of measuring the intensity of light.
  34. physicist: A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
  35. physics: The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
  36. physiocracy: The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
  37. physiognomy: The external appearance merely.
  38. physiography: Description of nature.
  39. physiology: The science of organic functions.
  40. physique: The physical structure or organization of a person.
  41. picayune: Of small value.
  42. piccolo: A small flute.
  43. piece: A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass.
  44. piecemeal: Gradually.
  45. pillage: Open robbery, as in war.
  46. pillory: A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn.
  47. pincers: An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
  48. pinchers: An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot.
  49. pinnacle: A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak.
  50. pioneer: One among the first to explore a country.