Quizlet SAT words from 'proffer' to 'protective'

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  1. proffer: To offer to another for acceptance.
  2. proficiency: An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science.
  3. proficient: Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry.
  4. profile: An outline or contour.
  5. profiteer: One who profits.
  6. profligacy: Shameless viciousness.
  7. profligate: Abandoned to vice.
  8. profuse: Produced or displayed in overabundance.
  9. progeny: Offspring.
  10. progression: A moving forward or proceeding in course.
  11. prohibition: A decree or an order forbidding something.
  12. prohibitionist: One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
  13. prohibitory: Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
  14. projection: A prominence.
  15. proletarian: A person of the lowest or poorest class.
  16. prolific: Producing offspring or fruit.
  17. prolix: Verbose.
  18. prologue: A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
  19. prolong: To extend in time or duration.
  20. promenade: To walk for amusement or exercise.
  21. prominence: The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
  22. prominent: Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
  23. promiscuous: Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex).
  24. promissory: Expressing an engagement to pay.
  25. promontory: A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
  26. promoter: A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
  27. promulgate: To proclaim.
  28. propaganda: Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system.
  29. propagate: To spread abroad or from person to person.
  30. propel: To drive or urge forward.
  31. propellant: Propelling.
  32. propeller: One who or that which propels.
  33. prophecy: Any prediction or foretelling.
  34. prophesy: To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
  35. propitious: Kindly disposed.
  36. proportionate: Being in proportion.
  37. propriety: Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
  38. propulsion: A driving onward or forward.
  39. prosaic: Unimaginative.
  40. proscenium: That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
  41. proscribe: To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation.
  42. proscription: Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
  43. proselyte: One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
  44. prosody: The science of poetical forms.
  45. prospector: One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
  46. prospectus: A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
  47. prostrate: Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
  48. protagonist: A leader in any enterprise or contest.
  49. protection: Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil.
  50. protective: Sheltering.