Word Smart 1 (16/20)

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Peremptory (adj.)

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final; categorical; dictational

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Perennial (adj)

Back 2

continual; happening again and again or year after year

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Perfidy (v.)

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treachery

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Perfunctory (adj.)

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unenthusiastic; careless

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Peripatetic (adj.)

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wandering; traveling continually; itinerant

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Periphery (n.)

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the outside edge of something

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Perjury (n.)

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lying under oath

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Permeate (v.)

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to spread or seep through; to penetrate

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Pernicious (adj.)

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deadly; extremely evil

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Perquisite (v.)

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a privilege that goes along with a job; a "perk"

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Pertinent (adj.)

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relevant; dealing with the matter at hand

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Perturb (v.)

Back 12

to disturb greatly

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Peruse (v.)

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to read carefully

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Pervade (v.)

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to spread throughout

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Petulant (adj.)

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rude; cranky; ill-tempered

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Philanthropy (n.)

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love of man kind, especially by doing good deads

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Philistine (n.)

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a smugly ignorant person wiht no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters

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Pious (adj.)

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reverent or devout; outwardly reverent or devout; hypocritical

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Pivotal (adj.)

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crucial

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Placate (v.)

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to pacify; to appease; to soothe

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Plaintive (adj.)

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expressing sadness or sorrow

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Platitude (n.)

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a dull or trite remark; a cliche

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Plebeian (adj.)

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common; vulgar; low class; bourgeois

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Plethora (n.)

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an excess

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Poignant (adj.)

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painfully emotional; extremely moving

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Polarize (v.)

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to break up into opposing faction sor groupings

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Polemic (n.)

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a powerful argument often made to attack or refute a controversial issue

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Ponderous (adj.)

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so large as to be clumsy; massive; dull

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Portent (n.)

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an omen; a sign of something coming in the future

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Postulate (n.)

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sokething accepted as true wihtout proof; an axiom

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Pragmatic (adj.)

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practicial; down to earth; based on experience rather than theory

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Precedent (n.)

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an earlier example or model of something

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Precept (n.)

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a rule to live by; a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior; a maxim

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Precipitate (v.)

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to cause to happen abruptly

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Preciptious (adj.)

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steep

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Preclude (v.)

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to prevent from ever happening

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Precursor (n.)

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forerunner; something that goes before and anticipates or paves the way for whatever it is that follows

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Predilection (n.)

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a natural preference for something

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Preeminent (adj.)

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better than anyone else; outstanding; supreme

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Preement (v.)

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to seize something by prior right

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Premise (n.)

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an assumption; the basis for a conclusion

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Prepossess (v.)

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to preoccupy; to influence beforehand or prejudice; to make a good impression on beforehand

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Prerogative (n.)

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a right or privilege connected exclusivlely with a position

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Prevail (v.)

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to triumph; to overcome rivals

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Pristine (adj.)

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original; unspoiled, pure

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Prodigal (adj.)

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wastefully extravagent