2009 August Week 2

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POIGNANT

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1: pungently pervasive
2a (1): painfully affecting the feelings: piercing (2): deeply affecting: touching b: designed to make an impression: cutting
3 a: pleasurably stimulating b: being to the point: apt

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POLEMIC

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1 a: an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another b: the art or practice of disputation or controversy —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction
2: an aggressive controversialist : disputant

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PONDER

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1: to weigh in the mind : appraise
2 : to think about: reflect on: to think or consider especially quietly, soberly, and deeply

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PONTIFICATE

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the state, office, or term of office of a pontiff

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PRAGMATIC

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1 archaic a (1): busy (2): officious b: opinionated
2: relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters: practical as opposed to idealistic
3: relating to or being in accordance with philosophical pragmatism

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PRECIPITANT

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one that causes to bring about especially abruptly

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PERCURSORY

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1 a: one that precedes and indicates the approach of another b: predecessor
2: a substance, cell, or cellular component from which another substance, cell, or cellular component is formed

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PRESAGE

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1: something that foreshadows or portends a future event: omen
2: an intuition or feeling of what is going to happen in the future
3: archaic: prognostication4: warning or indication of the future

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PRESCIENT

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: foreknowledge of events: a: divine omniscience b: human anticipation of the course of events: foresight

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PRETENTIOUS

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1: characterized by pretension: as a: making usually unjustified or excessive claims b: expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature
2: making demands on one's skill, ability, or means: ambitious

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PRINCIPAL

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1: most important, consequential, or influential: chief
2: of, relating to, or constituting principal or a principal
1: a person who has controlling authority or is in a leading position

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PRINCIPLE

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1 a: a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption b (1): a rule or code of conduct (2): habitual devotion to right principles c: the laws or facts of nature underlying the working of an artificial device
2: a primary source: origin
3 a: an underlying faculty or endowment b: an ingredient (as a chemical) that exhibits or imparts a characteristic quality
4 capitalized Christian Science : a divine principle

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PROFFER

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to present for acceptance : tender, offer

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PROFUSION

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1: lavish expenditure : extravagance
2: the quality or state of being profuse
3: great quantity: lavish display or supply

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PROGNOSIS

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1: the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case 2: forecast, prognostication