GRE List 24
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- parry
- evade question; dodge
- parsimony
- stinginess
- partial
- biased
- pastiche
- work that imitates style of previous work
- patent
- clear, obvious, apparent
- patina
- superficial covering acquired over time (green on bronze)
- patrician
- person of high birth, aristocrat
- patronize
- support with feeling of superiority, frequent customer
- paucity
- scarcity, poverty
- paunchy
- having enlarged or protruding abdomen
- peccadillo
- minor sin or fault
- pedagogue
- dull, pedantic teacher
- pedant
- person excessively concerned with minor detail or with displaying technical knowledge
- predestine
- fate
- peerless
- matchless, imparable; a peerless scholar, a peerless beauty
- pejorative
- derogatory, disparaging
- pelf
- welath, especially when dishonestly acquired
- pellucid
- easy to understand
- pen
- female swan
- penchant
- strong inclination; i have a penchant for sweetners over sugar
- pension
- pension something/someone off, dismiss; pay someone off
- pensive
- dreamily thoughtful
- penury
- severe poverty
- perambulate
- formal walk about
- peremptory
- imperious (demanding attention) or arrogant self-assurance
- perfervid
- ardent, blazing, fervent
- perfidy
- deceitfulness
- perforate
- make hole through, bore, drill, prick, punch, puncture
- perfunctory
- routine, mechanical
- periodical
- n. journal
- peripatetic
- traveling from place to place, nomadic
- perjury
- false testimony
- pernicious
- highly injurious, or destructive
- peroration
- conclution of speech
- persecute
- persistently harass to injure; ill-treat
- persiflage
- provide incentive
- perspicacious
- acute mental vision, keen, shrewd, argure, astucious, astute, heady
- perspicuity
- plain to the inderstanding
- pertinacious
- unyielding, tenacious, bullheaded, mulish, perverse, refractory
- pertinent
- clear decisive relevance, apposite, apropos, germane
- peruse
- examine with attention and detail
- pervade
- become diffused
- petrify
- become stony
- petrography
- description and classification of rocks
- petulant
- childish
- philatelist
- collection and study of stamps
- philistine
- disdainful, indifferent of artistic values
- phlegmatic
- apathetic, stoic, stolid, unemotional
- piddling
- paltry, trivial
- piebald
- spotted black and white