Pique
n. feeling of hurt pride
Plaintive
adj. melancholy; mournful
Plasticity
n. condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliability
Plume
v. to congratulate onself in a self-satisfied way
Prate
v. to talke idly; chatter
Precept
n. principle; law
Precipitate
v. to cause to happen; throw down from a height
Preempt
v. to supersede; appropriate for oneself
Prehensible
adj. capable of grasping
Premonition
n. forewarning; presentiment
Preternatural
adj. supernatural
Prevaricate
v. to quibble; evade the truth
Primordial
adj. original; existing from the beginning
Probity
n. honesty; high-mindedness
Propitate
v. to win over; appease
Provident
adj. providing for future needs; frugal
Puissant
adj. powerful
Purport
v. to profess; suppose; claim
Pusillanimous
adj. cowardly
Quail
v. to cower; lose heart
Quiescent
adj. inactive; still
Quorum
n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
Raiment
n. clothing
Rebus
n. puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words
Recondite
adj. abstruse; profound
Redoubtable
adj. formidable; arousing fear; worthy of respect
Refractory
adj. stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment
Regale
v. to entertain
Remonstrate
v. to object or protest
Reprise
n. repetition, especially of a piece of music
