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Answers to "Hot Words" quiz
- peripheral adj. - external; incidential; tangential
- peruse v. - to study; to read
- philistine adj. - narrow-minded; smugly conventional (when used as a noun, phillistine means "a dull often priggish person guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values.")
- piety n. - devotion and reverence, especially to God and family. (Closely related to this noun is the adjective pious, meaning "devout, zealous in performing religious obligations." It also has the uncomplimentary meaning of "seemingly virtuous or affecting virtue hypocritically.")
- pique v. - to hurt the feelings of or to make resentful; to ecite or arouse. n. - a temporary feeling of wounded vanity; a fit of resentment.
- placate v. - to soothe or pacify.
- placid adj. - outwardly calm or composed; self-satisfied; peaceful.
- plagiarize v. - to take ideas or writings from someone else and present them as your own; to take without credit.
- platitude n. - a thought or remark that is dull, trite, flat or weak.
- pompous adj. - self-important; stately; magnificent; excessively ornate.
- ponderous adj. - very heavy; bulky; labored and dull or tiresome.
- pragmatic adj. - practical; opinionated; concerned with actual practice rather than theory or speculation.
- preclude v. - to make impossible; to shut-out; to prevent.
- precocious adj. - having shown much more ability or knowledge than is usual at such a young age; early or premeturely ripe or developed.
- prestigious adj. - honored; having an illustrious name or reputation.
- pretentious adj. - claiming or demanding a position of distinctionto merit; showy; self-important.
- procrastinate v. - to put-off doing something until a later time; to delay.
- prodigious adj. - enormous; extraordinary; marvelous.
- profane adj. - secular; not holy; not connected with religion; irreverent.
- profusion n. - abundanne; a great or generous amount; extravagance.
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