SAT words from 'pious' to 'polygon'
Words alphabetically from 'pious' to 'polygon' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- pious
- Religious.
- pique
- To excite a slight degree of anger in.
- piteous
- Compassionate.
- pitiable
- Contemptible.
- pitiful
- Wretched.
- pitiless
- Hard-hearted.
- pittance
- Any small portion or meager allowance.
- placate
- To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
- placid
- Serene.
- plagiarism
- The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
- planisphere
- A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
- plasticity
- The property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed.
- platitude
- A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
- plaudit
- An expression of applause.
- plausible
- Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
- playful
- Frolicsome.
- playwright
- A maker of plays for the stage.
- plea
- An argument to obtain some desired action.
- pleasant
- Agreeable.
- pleasurable
- Affording gratification.
- plebeian
- Common.
- pledgee
- The person to whom anything is pledged.
- pledgeor
- One who gives a pledge.
- plenary
- Entire.
- plenipotentiary
- A person fully empowered to transact any business.
- plenitude
- Abundance.
- plenteous
- Abundant.
- plumb
- A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
- plummet
- A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
- pluperfect
- Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
- plural
- Containing or consisting of more than one.
- plurality
- A majority.
- plutocracy
- A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
- pneumatic
- Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
- poesy
- Poetry.
- poetaster
- An inferior poet.
- poetic
- Pertaining to poetry.
- poetics
- The rules and principles of poetry.
- poignancy
- Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
- poignant
- Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
- poise
- Equilibrium.
- polar
- Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
- polemics
- The art of controversy or disputation.
- pollen
- The fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant.
- pollute
- To contaminate.
- polyarchy
- Government by several or many persons of what- ever class.
- polycracy
- The rule of many.
- polygamy
- the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
- polyglot
- Speaking several tongues.
- polygon
- A figure having many angles.