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SAT words 2.5
Week After Christmas
Term | Definition |
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Opulent | wealthy, abundant |
Overt | not hidden, open |
Painstaking | very careful, diligent |
Pariah | an outcast |
Parsimonious | too thrifty, stingy |
Partisan | showing a strong support for a party or cause, characteristic or a guerrilla fighter |
Paucity | scarcity, smallness in number or amount |
Peerless | having no equal, better than the rest |
Perceptive | discerning, observant, sensitive |
Perfidy | treachery, betrayal of trust |
Ponderous | very heavy, bulky, labored and dull or tiresome |
Pragmatic | practical, opinionated, concerned with actual practice rather than with theory or speculation |
Preclude | to make impossible, to shut out, to prevent |
Precocious | having or showing much more ability or knowledge than is usual at such a young age, early or prematurely ripe or developed |
Prestigious | honored, having an illustrious name or reputation |
Prententious | claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, showy, self-important |
Procrasinate | to put off doing something until a later time, to delay |
Prodigious | enormous, extraordinary, marvelous |
Profane | secular, not holy, not connected with religion, irreverent |
Profusion | abundance, a great or generous amount, extravagance |