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words starting with per
Term | Definition |
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percipient | perceptive, insightful, perspicacious, sagacious, acute, astute |
perdition | damnation, condemnation to eternal punishment in hell |
peremptory | in a commanding(or dogmatic) manner, brusquely imperious |
perfidy | treachery, infidelity, being deceitful and untrustworthy |
perfunctory | superficial, cursory, casual, carried out without real interest or effort |
peripatetic | nomadic, moving place to place |
peripheral | on the edge, not important |
perjury | telling lies under oath |
pernicious | destructive, harmful, noxious, inimical, calamitous, deleterious, detrimental |
persnickety | fastidious, fussy, difficult, finicky, finical |
perpituated | cause to continue |
perpetuity | eternity |
personable | attractive, having pleasant appearance and manner |
perspicacious | insightful, sharp, wise, sagacious, shrewd |
perspicacity | insight, shrewdness |
pertinent | relevant, germane, apposite |
peruse | read carefully |
pervasive | spreading everywhere, prevalent, rife |
perceptive | observant, insightful |