VB21
Terms
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- opulence
- wealth
- oratorio
- dramatic poem set to music
- ordinance
- decree
- orifice
- mouthlike opening; small opening
- ornate
- excessively decorated; highly decorated
- ornithologist
- scientific student of birds
- oscillate
- vibrate pendulumlike; waver
- ossify
- change or harden into bone
- ostensible
- apparent; professed; pretended
- ostentatious
- showy; pretentious
- ostracize
- exclude from public favor; ban
- overt
- open to view
- pacifist
- one opposed to force; antimilitarist
- paean
- song of praise or joy
- palatable
- agreeable; pleasing to the taste
- papyrus
- ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
- parable
- short, simple story teaching a moral
- paradox
- statement that looks false but is actually correct; a contradictory statement
- paragon
- model of perfection
- parallelism
- state of being parallel; similarity
- paranoia
- chronic form of insanity marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution
- paraphernalia
- equipment; odds and ends
- paraphrase
- restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author
- parasite
- animal or plant living on another; toady; sycophant
- paregoric
- medicine that eases pain
- pariah
- social outcast
- parlance
- language; idiom
- parley
- conference
- parody
- humorous imitation; travesty
- paroxysm
- fit or attack of pain, laughter, rage
- parricide
- person who murders his own father; murder of a father
- parry
- ward off a blow
- parsimonious
- stingy; excessively frugal
- partiality
- inclination; bias
- parvenu
- upstart; newly rich person
- passive
- not active; acted upon
- pastoral
- rural
- patent
- open for the public to read; obvious
- pathetic
- causing sadness; compassion, pity; touching
- pathos
- tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
- patriarch
- father and ruler of a family or tribe
- patricide
- person who murders his father; murder of a father
- patrimony
- inheritance from father
- paucity
- scarcity
- peccadillo
- slight offense
- peculate
- steal; embezzle
- pecuniary
- pertaining to money
- pedagogue
- teacher; dull and formal teacher
- pedantic
- showing off learning; bookish
- pediatrician
- expert in children's diseases
- penance
- self-imposed punishment for sin
- pell-mell
- in confusion; disorderly
- penchant
- strong inclination; liking
- pellucid
- transparent;limpid; easy to understand
- pendant
- hanging down from something
- pendent
- suspended; jutting; pending
- penitent
- repentant
- pensive
- dreamily thoughtful; thoughtful with a hint of sadness
- penurious
- stringy; parsimonious
- penury
- extreme poverty
- percussion
- striking one object against another sharply
- penumbra
- partial shadow (in an eclipse)
- perdition
- damnation; complete ruin
- peremptory
- demanding and leaving no choice
- perennial
- lasting
- perfidious
- basely false
- perfidy
- violation of a trust
- perforce
- of necessity
- perfunctory
- superficial; listless; not thorough
- palatial
- magnificent
- palaver
- disucssion; misleading speech; chatter
- palette
- board on which painter mixes pigments
- pallet
- small, poor bed
- palliate
- easy pain; make less guilty or offensive
- pallid
- pale; wan
- palpable
- tangible; easily perceptible
- palpitate
- throb; flutter
- paltry
- insignifcant; petty
- panacea
- cure-all; remedy for all diseases
- pandemonium
- wil tumult
- pander
- cater to the low desires of others
- panegyric
- formal praise
- panorama
- comprehensive view; unobstructed view in all directions
- pantomime
- acting without dialogue