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36 Cards in this Set
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Precept
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n. practical rule guiding conduct. The 12 priciples of AA are meant to serve as precepts for living.
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Precipitant
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n. somehtin that causes a substance in a chemical solution to separate out the solid form
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Precipitous
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adj. steep; overhasty. This hill is difficult to climb because it is so precipitous; one might slip.
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Precis
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n. concise summing up of main ponts. like precise
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Preclude
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v. make impossible; eliminate. The fact that Obama was two delegated ahead of Clinton precluded her being able to catch up.
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Precipitatous
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adj. rash; premature; hasty; sudden/ v. precipitate - throw healdong; hasten. Although I desperately wanted to quite, I was not so precipitatous as to quit without giving a two weeks notice.
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Preeminent
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adj. outstanding; superior
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Preempt
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v. head off; forestall by acting first
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Prefatory
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adj. introductory
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Prehensile
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adj. capable of grasping or holding. Monkey's use their prehensile tails to swing from trees.
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Prelate
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n. church dignitary
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Preponderance
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n. superiority of power, quantity
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Prerogative
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n. privelege; unquestionable right
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Preage
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v. foretell
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Prescience
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n. abilty to foretell the future
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Presentiment
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adj. prescience
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Preternatural
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adj. beyond that which is normal in nature
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Pretext
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n. excuse. The looked for a good pretet to explain her faulty actions.
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Prevaricate
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v. lie. The scared criminal prevaricated.
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Primogeniture
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n. seniority by birth
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Probity
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adj. secret; hidden; not public
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Proclivity
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n. inclination; natural tendency
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Procurement
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n. obtaining
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Prodigal
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adj. wasteful; recklesss with money
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Privy
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adj. secret; hidden; not public
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Profligate
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adj. dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral
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Profusion
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n. overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess
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Progenitor
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n. ancestor
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Progeny
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n. ancestor
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Prolixity
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n. tedious wordiness; verbosity. A writer who suffers from prolixity tell his readers everything.
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Promontory
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n. headland. They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching life led by the yound artists of Paris.
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Promulgate
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v. procliam a doctrine of law; make known by official publication
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Propagate
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v. multiply; spread
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Prophylactic
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adj. used to prevent diseases
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Propinquity
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n. nearness; kinship
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Propitiate
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v. appease
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