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29 Cards in this Set
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pellucid
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transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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penchant
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strong inclination, liking
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peregrination
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traveling about, wandering
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peremptory
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Not allowing any debate or questioning, admitting of no contradiction
expressive of urgency or command <a peremptory call> -haughty <a peremptory tone> |
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perigee
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closest or lowest point in orbit, nadir
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peripatetic
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itinerant, traveling, nomadic
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peroration
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the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech
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personable
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pleasing in appearance, attractive
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petrous
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hard, stony, liek a rock
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petulant
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impatient and irritable
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philistine
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a crass individual guided by material things rather than intellectual or artistic values
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phlegmatic
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impassive, stoical, sluggish
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picaresque
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involving clever adventurers
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pillory
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to punish, to hold up to public scorn
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piquant
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agreably pungent, stimulating
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pique
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noun: resentment
verb: to annoy, offend, excite provoke or arouse |
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placebo
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an inactive pill prescribed for mental relief, something tending to soothe
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plangent
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pounding, thundering, resounding
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plumb
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to measure the depth, to critically examine
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poignant
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distressing, pertinent, touching, stimulating, emotional
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poseur
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an insincere person, a poser
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prate
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to chatter, to babble, prattle
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precarious
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risky, dangerous
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recreant
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noun-coward
adj- cowardly, craven, pusillanimous |
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recumbent
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leaning, resting, prone
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redolent
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fragrant, suggestive, evocative
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refractory
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stubborn, unruly, fractious, intractible
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regale
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to delight or entertain
to feast verb |
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remonstrate
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to protest or object
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