GRE List 35

Assu (India)
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  1. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  2. pedagogue
    someone who educates young people
  3. pedagogy
    the profession of a teacher
  4. pedant
    a person who is preoccupied with rules and learning
  5. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  6. pedestrian
    a person who travels by foot
  7. pediatrician
    a medical specialist in the care of children
  8. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  9. pell-mell
    in a wild or reckless manner
  10. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  11. penance
    voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something
  12. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
  13. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  14. pendant
    an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry
  15. pendulous
    hanging loosely or bending downward
  16. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  17. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  18. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
  19. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  20. peon
    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
  21. perceptive
    of or relating to awareness via the senses
  22. precursor
    something indicating the approach of something or someone
  23. perdition
    the place or state in which one suffers eternal punishment
  24. peregrination
    traveling or wandering around
  25. peremptory
    putting an end to all debate or action
  26. perennial
    lasting an indefinitely long time
  27. perfidious
    tending to betray
  28. perforate
    make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation
  29. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  30. perigee
    the nearest point in an orbit around the Earth
  31. perimeter
    a line enclosing a plane area
  32. peripatetic
    traveling especially on foot
  33. peripheral
    on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary
  34. periphery
    the outside boundary or surface of something
  35. perjury
    criminal offense of making false statements under oath
  36. permeable
    allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through
  37. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  38. peroration
    the concluding section of a rhetorical address
  39. perpetrate
    perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
  40. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
  41. perpetuate
    cause to continue or prevail
  42. perquisite
    an incidental benefit for certain types of employment
  43. personable
    pleasant in manner and appearance
  44. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  45. perspicuity
    clarity as a consequence of being easily understandable
  46. perspicuous
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  47. pert
    characterized by a lightly saucy or impudent quality
  48. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  49. pertinent
    being of striking appropriateness
  50. perturb
    disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried
  51. peruse
    examine or consider with attention and in detail
  52. perusal
    the act of examining or reading carefully
  53. pervasive
    spreading or spread throughout
  54. perverse
    deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper
  55. perversion
    the action of corrupting something
  56. pessimism
    a general disposition to expect the worst in all things
  57. pestilential
    likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  58. pestle
    a hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
  59. petrify
    change into stone
  60. petty
    small and of little importance
  61. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  62. pharisaical
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  63. phenomenon
    any state or process known through the senses
  64. philanderer
    a man who likes many women
Created on Mon May 13 11:15:40 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Jun 24 14:35:38 EDT 2013)

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