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25 Cards in this Set
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Peremptory
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adj.
final; categorical; dictatorial |
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Perennial
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adj.
continual; happening again and again or year after year |
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Perfidy
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n.
treachery |
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Perfunctory
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adj.
unenthusiastic; careless |
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Peripatetic
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adj.
wandering; traveling continually; itinerant |
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Periphery
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n.
outside the edge of something |
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Perjury
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n.
lying under oath |
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Permeate
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v.
to spread or seep through; to penetrate |
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Pernicious
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adj.
deadly; extremely evil |
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Perquisite
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n.
a privilege that goes along with a job; a “perk” |
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Pertinent
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adj.
relevant; dealing with the matter at hand |
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Perturb
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v.
to disturb greatly |
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Peruse
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v.
to read carefully |
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Pervade
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v.
to spread throughout |
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Petulant
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adj.
rude; cranky; ill-tempered |
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Philanthropy
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n.
love of mankind, especially by doing good deeds |
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Philistine
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n.
a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters |
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Pious
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adj.
reverent or devout; outwardly (and sometimes falsely) reverent or devout; hypocritical |
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Pivotal
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adj.
critical |
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Placate
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v.
to pacify; to appease; to soothe |
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Plaintive
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adj.
expressing sadness or sorrow |
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Platitiude
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n.
a dull or trite remark; a cliché |
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Plebeian
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adj.
common; vulgar; low class; bourgeois |
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Plethora
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n.
an excess |
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Poignant
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adj.
painfully emotional; extremely moving; sharp or astute |
