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Undergraduate 3
07/21/2010

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Term
Pacific
Definition

calm and peaceful

 

"pacifier, makes a baby calm and peaceful"

Term
Pcaifist
Definition

Someone opposed to war

 

"pacifier, makes things calm with a baby, this person doesn't want war"

Term
Pacify
Definition

to restore  calm, bring peace

 

"same thing a pacifier does"

Term
Palatial
Definition

Like a palace, magnificent

 

"like a palace"

Term
Palaver
Definition

idle talk

 

"like Paula, she always like to talk"

Term


Paleontology

Definition

Study of past geological eras through fossil remains

 

 

Term
Palette
Definition

board for missing paints; range of colors

 

"painting palette"

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Palisade
Definition

fence made up of stakes

 

"palisade apartments, like they made a fence around the apartment"

Term
Pall (N)
Definition

covering that darkens or obscures, coffin

 

"like pall buriers"

Term
Pall (v)
Definition

to lose strength or interest

 

"like pale, like you are losing strength"

Term
Palliate
Definition

to make less serious, ease

 

 

"like palpitate, beating eases the nervous"

Term
pallid
Definition

lacking color or liveliness

 

"pale, laking color"

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Palpable
Definition

something real, tangible

 

"like beating your heart because you feel a love is real"

Term
palpitation
Definition

trembling, shaking, irregular beating

 

 

"palpitate"

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paltry
Definition

pitifully small or worthless

 

 

"like poultry, something that is small and worthless"

Term
Panacea
Definition

cure-all

 

"like the pancreas, cures when there is too much glucose"

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pandemic
Definition

spread over whole area or country

 

 

"flu pandemic"

Term
Panegyric
Definition

elaborate praise, formal hymn or praise

 

"rhymes with music, formal hymn or praise"

Term
Panoply
Definition

impressive array

 

 

"like monopoly, exceptive array of multiple people"

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Panorama
Definition

Broad view;  comprehensive picture

 

 

"broad view"

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Paradigm
Definition

ideal example, model

 

 

"like a diamond, its top notch model for rocks"

Term
Paradox
Definition
contraadiction, dilemmaa, puzzle
Term
paradoxical
Definition

self-contradictory but true

 

"like a paradox is a contradition, this is self-contradiction but true"

Term
paragon
Definition

model of excellence or perfection

 

"like the pentagon, it serves as a model"

 

Term
Paramount
Definition

supreme, dominant, primary

 

"paramount theatures, the suprement theatures"

Term
Paraphrase
Definition
to reword, usually in simpler terms
Term
parasite
Definition
person or animal that lives at another expense
Term
parch
Definition

to dry or shrivel

 

"to be really really thirsty is parched'"

Term
pare
Definition

to trim

 

 

"like hare, you have to trim his hare"

Term

pariah

 

 

Definition

outcast

 

"like mariah, she made eminem and outcast"

Term

parity

 

 

Definition

equality

 

"like a pair they are equal"

Term
Parley
Definition

discussion, usually between enemies

 

"barley, something that the people at AHCA association were upset about"

Term
Parochial
Definition

of limited scopr or outlook, provincial

 

"parochial schools, are in limited scopes"

Term
parody
Definition
humerous imitation
Term
parole
Definition
condition release of prisoner
Term
parry
Definition

to ward off or deflect

 

 

"like to harry, he wards off spells"

Term
parsimony
Definition
stinginess
Term
Partisian (n)
Definition
strong supporter
Term
partisian (adj)
Definition
biased in favor of
Term
Pastiche
Definition

piece of literatureor music imitating other works



"cliche, something that imitates other things"

Term
patent (n)
Definition

official document giving exclusive right to sell an invention

 

 

 

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patent (adj)
Definition

obvious, unconcerned

 

 

"like someone patient is unconcerned"

Term
paternity
Definition
fatherhood, decent from father's ancestors
Term
pathogenic
Definition
causing disease
Term
pathos
Definition

pity, compassion

 

"pathological liars need pity and compassion"

Term
patrician
Definition

aristocrat

 

"pediatrician is like an aristocrat"

Term
patricide
Definition

murder of one's father

 

"paternal cide"

Term
patrimony
Definition

inheritance or heritage derived from one's father

 

 

"mony from paternal"

Term
patronize
Definition

to condescend to, disparage, to buy from

 

"are you patronizing me?"

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Paucity
Definition

scarcity, lack

 

 

"pauper doesn't have much"

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pauper
Definition

very poor person

 

 

 

Term
pavilion
Definition

tent or light building used for shelter or exhibitions

 

"meet under the pavilion"

Term
pecadillo
Definition

minor sin or offense

 

"pecaditio"

Term
peculation
Definition

theft of money or goods

 

"makes a sin from culmination theft"

Term
pedagogue
Definition

teacher

 

"pedogogy"

Term
Pedant
Definition

uninspired, boring academic

 

 

"like pedone, boring academic, and uninspired"

Term

Pedestrian (adj)

 

Definition

commonplace

 

"pedestrian, normal person"

Term
pediatrician
Definition
doctor specializing in children and their ailments
Term
pediment
Definition

triangular gable on a roof or facade

 

 

"meant for the gable of the roof"

Term
Peer (n)
Definition

contemporary, equal, match

 

 

"peer review, something that is equal"

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peerless
Definition

unequaled

 

 

"have no peers"

Term
pejorative
Definition

having bad connotations, disparaging

 

"pejor, to make worse= bad connotations"

Term
pellucid
Definition

transparent; transluscent, easily understood

 

"luc, something  you can see right through"

Term
penance
Definition

voluntary suffering to repent for a wrong

 

"penance for a sin"

Term
penchant
Definition

inclination

 

"inclination,, chanting in your head"

Term
Pending (prep)
Definition

during, while awaiting

 

 

Term
penitent
Definition

expressing sorrow for sins or offenses

 

"pent- for give penance"

Term
pensive
Definition

throughful

 

"the pensive, to go into thoughts"

Term

penultimate

 

Definition

next to last

 

"before the last"

Term
penumbra
Definition

partial shadow

 

"like umbrella"

Term
penury
Definition

extreme poverty

 

"only has a penny"

Term
perambulator
Definition

baby carriage

 

 

"baby ambulance"

Term
percipient
Definition

discerning, able to percieve

 

 

"percieve, you are able to percieve"

Term
perdition
Definition

complete and utter lost, damnation

 

"pergatory, like it is in damnation"

Term
peregrinate
Definition

to wander from place to place

 

"peregrino, the wanderer"

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perennial
Definition

present throughout the years, peresistent

 

 

"present in years"

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perfiduous
Definition

faithless, disloyal, untrrustworthy

 

 

"perfibber, someone you cannot trust"

Term
perfunctory
Definition

done in a routine way, indifferent

 

"in a funct, you are just doing the samae things without thinking"

Term
Perphelion
Definition

point in orbit nearest to the sun

 

 

"opposite of apehlion"

Term
peripatetic
Definition

moving from place to place

 

"pathetic because you can'r stay, you always have to move from place to place"

Term
perjure
Definition

to lie under oath

 

"perjury, to lie infront of jury"

Term
permeable
Definition

penetratable

 

"semi-permeable"

Term
pernicious
Definition

very harmful

 

"someone who is vicious is very harmful"

Term
perpetual
Definition

lasting, endless

 

 

"perpetually forever"

Term
personification
Definition

act of attributing human to objects or abstract qualities

 

 

"like giving it a personality"

Term
perspicacious
Definition

shwred, astute, keen-witted

 

"spicacious, you can see like tenacious and to be astute"

Term
pert
Definition

lively and bold

 

"pert plus is lively and bold"

Term
pertinacious
Definition

persistant, stubborn

 

 

"lively and tenacious"

Term
pertinent
Definition

applicable, appropriate

 

"something pertinent is applicable to the situation"

Term
perturbation
Definition

disturbance

 

 

"pertubed, someone that is disturbed"

Term
perusal
Definition

close examination

 

"perusing over things, examination"

Term
pervert
Definition

to cause to change in immoral way, to misuse

 

"to be perverted"

Term
pestilence
Definition

epidemic, plague

 

"there are a lot of pests"

Term
petulance
Definition

rudeness, peevishness

 

"pesterlance, you are very rude"

Term
phalanx
Definition

massed group of soldiers, people, or things

 

 

"max, he rowdy the group"

Term
philanderer
Definition

pusurer of casual love affairs

 

"lands in a different bed all the time"

Term
philanthropy
Definition
love of humanity, genorosity to worthy causes
Term
Philistine
Definition

narrow-minded person, someone lacking appreciation for art or culture

 

"philip was a narrow-minded person, only liking science"

Term
philology
Definition

study of words

 

"philip knew a lot of words"

Term
phlegmatic
Definition

calm in temperament, sluggish

 

 

"like fleur from harry potter, very sluggish"

Term
phobia
Definition
anxiety, horror
Term
phoenix
Definition

mythical, immortal bird which lives for 500 year, burns itself to death, and rises from ashes

 

"order of the phoenix"

Term
phonetics
Definition

study of speech sounds

 

"hooked on phonics"

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phonic
Definition
relating to sound
Term
piety
Definition

devoutness

 

"pious"

Term
pilfer
Definition
to steal
Term
pillage
Definition
to loot, especially during war
Term
pinnacle
Definition

peak, highest point of development

 

 

Term
pious
Definition

dedicated, devout, extremely religious

 

"pope pious"

Term
pique
Definition

fleeting feeling of hurt pride

 

"pico, a sharp sad pride"

Term
pithy
Definition

profound, substanial, concise, succint, to the point

 

"short pithy statement"

Term

pittance

 

Definition

meager amount or wage

 

"but I recieved but a pittance"

Term
placate
Definition
to soothe or to pacify
Term
placcid
Definition

Calm

 

"lake placcid, very calm"

Term
plagiarist
Definition
one who steals the words or ideas of others
Term
plaintiff
Definition

injured person in a lawsuit

 

"plaintiff vs the deffendant"

Term

plait

Definition

to braid

 

"padma's plaited braids"

Term
platitude
Definition

stale, overused expression

 

"plastic attitude, something that is way too overused"

Term
plebian
Definition

crude, vulgar, low-class

 

"plebian class"

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plentitude
Definition

abundance, plenty

 

"there is plenty of that there"

Term
plethora
Definition

excess, overabundance

 

 

"plethora od things"

Term
pliant
Definition

pliable, yielding

 

"able to pliant"

Term
pluck
Definition
to pull strings on musical instrument
Term
plucky
Definition

courageous, spunky

 

"plucky like clucky, somone courageous and spunky"

Term
plummet
Definition

to fail, to plunge

 

 

'her heart plummeted"

Term
pluralistic
Definition

including a variety of groups

 

 

"plural, there are many groups"

Term
poach
Definition

to steal game or fish, cook in boiling liquid

 

 

"no poaching allowed"

Term
podium
Definition

platform or lectern for orchestra conduction for speakers

 

 

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poignant
Definition

emotionally moving

 

"makes a point to move someone"

Term
polar
Definition

relating to a geographic pole, exhibiting contrast

 

 

"polar opposites"

Term
polarize
Definition

to tend towards opposite extremes

 

 

"polar opposites"

Term
polemic
Definition

controversy, arugment, verbal attack

 

"at opposite poles, at a verbal attack"

Term
politic
Definition
shrewd and pracitical, diplomatic
Term
polyglot
Definition

speaker of many languages

 

"many lots speech"

Term
ponderous
Definition

weighty, heavty, large

 

"ponderosa when you eat it you feel heavy and large"

Term
pontificate
Definition

to speak in a pretentious manner

 

"pont- just speaking in a front"

Term
pore (v)
Definition

to study closely or mediatively

 

"pore over things"

Term
porous
Definition
full of holes, permeable to liquids
Term
portant
Definition

omen

 

"something that is potent"

Term
portly
Definition

stout, dignified

 

"like  a piggy'

Term
posit
Definition

to put in position, to suggest an idea

 

"like a position, proposition"

Term
posterior
Definition

bottom, rear

 

'your butt'

Term
posterity
Definition

future generation, all of the person's descendents

 

'like your grandma is your butt, and everyone is formed into branches"

Term
potable
Definition

drinkable

 

"like drinking a potion"

Term
potentate
Definition

monarch or ruler with great powers

 

"to have great potential of a tyrant"

Term
pragmatic
Definition

practical, moved by facts rather than abstract ideals

 

"prag, practical"

Term
prattle
Definition

meaningless, foolish talk

 

"prattle like pitter patter that is meanigless and foolish"

Term
precarious
Definition

uncertain

 

"precarious position, slightly dangerous to be uncertain"

Term
precept
Definition

principle, law

 

"cept everyone from law"

Term
precipice
Definition

edge, steep overhang

 

 

"pice that shows up further that overhang"

Term
precipitate (adj)
Definition

sudden and unexpected

 

"like a precipitate, it comes up really fast"

Term
precipitate (v)
Definition

to throw down from a height; to cause to happen

 

"precipitate cause to happen"

Term
precipitous
Definition

hastly, quickly, with too little caution

 

 

"precipitate, to do with really quickly"

Term
precis
Definition

short summary of facts

 

"like precise, with the facts that it has"

Term
precision
Definition

state of being precise

 

 

Term
preclude
Definition

to rule out

 

"like occlude to figure that it is ruled out"

Term
precocious
Definition

unusually advanced @ and early age

 

"precocious young girl"

Term
precusor
Definition

forerunner, predecessor

 

Term
predator
Definition

one that preys on others, destroyer, plunderer

 

 

Term
predicament
Definition

difficult situation

 

 

Term
predicate (v)
Definition

to found or base on

 

 

"predicament, you have to find on"

Term
predicative
Definition

relating to prediction, indicative to the of the future

 

"predicting something, indicative"

Term
predilection
Definition

preference, liking

 

"lection- a likeing for something"

Term
predisposition
Definition

tendency, inclination

 

 

"predisposed to do something"

Term
preeminent
Definition

celebrated, distinguished

 

"predominant- something on the forefront"

Term
preface
Definition

introduction to a book, introductory remarks to speech

 

"start and opposite of the epilogue"

Term
premeditate
Definition

consider, plan beforehand

 

"premediation for murder"

Term
premonition
Definition

forewarning, presentiment

 

"like a supernatural premonition"

Term
preponderance
Definition

majority in number, dominance

 

"ponderance, rhymes with dominance"

Term
prepossessing
Definition

attractive, engaging, appealing

 

"possessive, you can see how attractive it is"

Term
preposterous
Definition

absurd, illogical

 

 

"that's preposterous"

Term
presage
Definition

to fortell, indicate in advance

 

"like a sage, you can tell was going on"

Term
prescient
Definition

having foresight

 

"sci, you can see everything"

Term
prescribe
Definition

to set down a rule, to recomend a treatment

 

"scribes wrtie down the rule"

Term
presentiment
Definition

premonition, sense of foreboding

 

"sentiment- you can feel something coming"

Term

pretidigitation

 

Definition

sleight of hand

 

"dig around, something you do by hand"

Term
presumptuous
Definition

rude, improperly bold

 

'always assume they are bold"

Term
pretext
Definition

excuse, pretended reason

 

"the text is not really real"

Term
prevalent
Definition

widespread

 

 

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prevaricate
Definition

to  lie, evade the truth.

 

"various ways to lie and to evade the truth"

Term
primeval
Definition

ancient, primitive

 

"medevil, ancient"

Term
primordial
Definition

original, existing from the beginning

 

"primordial goo from the start of the earth"

Term
pristine
Definition

clean, untouched, uncorrupted

 

 

Term
privation
Definition

lack of usual necessitiess or comforts

 

"you are deprived of the necessities"

Term
probity
Definition

honest, highmindness

 

"probing honesty"

Term
proclivity
Definition

tendency, inclination

 

"clive- inclination"

Term
procrastinator
Definition

one who continually and unjustifiably postpones

 

 

Term
procure
Definition

to obtain

 

"to obtain a cure"

Term
prodigal
Definition

wasteful, extravagant, lavish

 

"the prodigal son is very lavish"

Term
prodigous
Definition

vast, enormous, extraordinary.

 

 

"presitgious"

Term
profane
Definition

impure, contrary to religion, sacreligious

 

 

Term
proficient
Definition
expert, skilled in certain subject
Term
profuse
Definition

lavish, extravagant

 

"profusely siad bad"

Term
progenitor
Definition

originator, forefather, ancestor in direct line

 

"pro generates- father"

Term
progeny
Definition

offspring, children

 

"prgeny- children"

Term
prognosis
Definition

prediction of disease outcome, any prediction

 

 

"like a diagnosis"

Term
progressive
Definition

favoring progress or change, moving forward going

 

 

Term
proliferation
Definition

propagation, reproduction, enlargement, expansion

 

"proliferation of cells"

Term
Prolific
Definition

productive, fertile

 

"Prolife- want to give babies"

Term
prologue
Definition

introductory section of literary work or play

 

 

"before the epilogue"

Term
promontory
Definition

piece of land or rock higher than its surroundings

 

"promo, raise something higher than other things"

Term
promulgate
Definition

to make known publicly

 

" mulgate, like to mull over something publicly"

Term
propensity
Definition

inclination, tendency

 

"pro, something to be attracted to, tendency to do something"

Term
propinquity
Definition

nearness

 

"quick, you can get somewhere quick if they are near"

Term
propitiate
Definition

to win over, to appease

 

"you appreciate something if you are able to win them over"

Term
propitious
Definition

favorable, advantaeous

 

"props are something that are favorable and advantageous"

Term
proponent
Definition

advocate, defender, suporter

 

 

"pro- something"

Term
prosaic
Definition

relating to prose, dull, commonplace

 

"mosaic, the opposite of dull"

Term
proscribe
Definition

to condemn, to forbid, outlaw

 

 

"pro are for something, scribes set down and assign things, the outlaw"

Term
prose
Definition

ordinary language

 

 

"like a hose, it is something that is very ordinary"

Term
prosecutor
Definition

person who initiates a legal action or suit

 

"like Eamon's mom!!!"

Term
Proselytize
Definition

to convert to a particular belief or religion

 

"as if you are selling yourself to a new particular religion"

Term
prostrate
Definition

lying face downward, lying flat on the ground

 

"when you get prostrate cancer, you tend to lie on face on the floor"

Term
protagonist
Definition

main character in a play or story, the hero

 

"opposite of the antagonist"

Term
protean
Definition

readily assuming different forms or characters

 

"like a protein, it forms different things"

Term
protestation
Definition

declaration

 

"like you protest, you are making a declaration"

Term
protocol
Definition

ceremony and manners observed by diplomats

 

"like a scientific protocol"

Term
protract
Definition

to prolong, to draw out, extend

 

"something that extends outwards"

Term
protrusion
Definition

something that sticks outwards

 

"something that protrudes outwards"

Term
provincial
Definition

rustic, unsophisticated, limited in scope

 

"like leonardo de vinci, he was somewhat unsophisticated"

Term
provocation
Definition

cause, incitement to act or respond

 

"to provoke something"

Term
prowess
Definition

 having bravery and skill

 

"like prowling, like a lion who has bravery and skill"

Term
proxy
Definition

power to act as substitute for another

 

"like a foxy person, they are sly and they think they can act as a substitute for another"

Term
prude
Definition

one who is excessively proper or modest

 

"like someone very restrained"

Term
prudent
Definition

careful or cautious

 

"like someone who is a prude, someone who is retrained"

Term
prurient
Definition

lustful, exhibiting lewd desires

 

"like a pruree, someone who is slick and wet"

Term
pry
Definition
to intrude, to force open
Term
pseudonym
Definition

pen name, fictious or borrowed name

 

"like a pseudoname"

Term
psychic (adj)
Definition

perceptive of the nonmaterial, spiritual forces

 

 

Term
Puerile
Definition

childish, immature, silly

 

"like juvenile, someone childish"

Term
pudgy
Definition
overweight, chubby
Term
pugilism
Definition

boxing

 

"puging is like slugging someone"

Term
Pugnacious
Definition

quarrelsome, eager, ready to fight

 

 

"like a pug, he always needs to fight"

Term
pulchritude
Definition

beauty

 

"like mulch, that makes beauty"

Term
pulverize
Definition
to pound, to crush, or grind into powder, destroy
Term
pummel
Definition

to pound, to beat

 

"i'm going to pummel that person"

Term
punctilious
Definition

careful in observing rules of behavior or ceremony

 

"like someone who is punctual, you are very careful with things"

Term
pungent
Definition

strong or sharp in smell or taste

 

"pung- just sounds sharp"

Term
punitive
Definition

having to do with punishment

"puny, someone small needs to be punished"

Term
purgation
Definition

process of clensing, purification

 

"like purgatory, somewhere you go to clense yourself"

Term
purge  (v)
Definition

to clense or free from impurities

 

 

Term
puritanical
Definition

adhering to a rigid moral code

 

"like someone of a puritan"

Term
purport
Definition

to profess, suppose, claim

 

"purp- someone proposing something"

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