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41 Cards in this Set
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pedant
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scholar who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities
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pedantic
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showing off learning; bookish; PEDESTIRAN
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penury
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severe poverty
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peremptory
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demanding and leaving no choice.
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perfidious
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treacherous; disloyal
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perfunctory
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lacking care or enthusiasm; superficial
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pernicious
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very destructive
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peroration
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conclusion of an oration; a highly rhetorical speech
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perspicuity
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clearness of expression
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perspicuous
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clearly expressed
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pert
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impertinent; forward
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pertinacious
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stubborn; persistent
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perverse
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stubbornly wrongheaded; wicked and unacceptable
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petulant
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peevish
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pharisaical
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self-reighteous; hypocritical
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philology
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study of language
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phlegmatic
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calm; not easily disturbed
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piebald
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of different colors; mottled
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pinion (v.)
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restrain
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piquant
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pleasantly tart; stimulating
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pique
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irritation; resentment
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plaintive
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mournful
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plaudit
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enthusiastic approval; round of applause
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plenary
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complete; full
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plutocracy
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rule by the rich
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poignancy
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quality of being deeply moving
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poseur
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person who pretends to be sophistocated to impress others
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postulate (n.)
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self-evident truth; axiom
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prate
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speak foolishly; boast idly
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precept
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practical rule guiding conduct
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precipitate (adj.)
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rash; hasty; sudden
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precipitous
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steep; overhasty
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prelate
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church dignitary
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premonitory
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serving to warn
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presumptuous
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arrogant; taking liberties
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preternatural
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beyond that which is normal in nature
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primogeniture
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senority by birth
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pristine
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characteristic of earlier times; unspoiled
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privy
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secret; hidden; not public
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probity
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uprightness; incorruptibility
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prodigious
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marvelous; enormous
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