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betrayal, treachery, disloyalty

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perfidy
sent: his earlier perfidy means that no one trusts him now

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mechanical, unthinking, indifferent

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perfunctory
sent: i only gave the instructions a quick, perfunctory look

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wandering, roving, itinerant

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peripatetic
sent: her career has been periatetic, taking her to six different cities

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banter, chat, repartee

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presiflage
sent: their silly persiflage was meant to amuse the listener

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astute, insightful, shrewd

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perspicacious
sent: one perspicacious remark led me to reconsider my plans

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irritable, peevish, bad-tempered

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petulant
sent: that petulant child deserves a short time-out

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formation, configuration, arrangement

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phalanx
sent: a phalanx of armed horsemen appeared on the hillside

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apparition, specter, ghost

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phantasm
sent: wispy fog can make you think you have seen a phantasm

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hyocrite, goody-goody

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pharisee
sent: his know-it-all superiority made us call him a pharisee

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benevolent, altruistic, charitable

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philanthropic
sent: philanthropic works are expected of the very rich

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stamp collector

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philatelist
sent: does the philatelist have any stamps that are available?

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boor, borbarian, lout

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philistine
sent: does my dislike of opera make me some kind of philistine?

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placid, undmonstrative, apathetic

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phlegmatic
sent: as others become passionate he becomes more phlegmatic

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trivial, paltry, worthless

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picayune
sent: that was a picayune waste of everyone’s time

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spotted, mottled, multicolored

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piebald
sent: the child rode a russet and white piebal pony

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devotion, faithfulness, reverence

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piety
sent: we expect nuns to display more piety that the average person

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to steal, embezzle, filch

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pilfer
sent: if you pilfer writing supplies from work, is that a crime?

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to shackle, immobilize, bind

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pinion
sent: both wrestlers oinion their opponents easily

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to calm, pacify, appease

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placate
sent: his quiet explanation seemed to placate the children

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cliche, banality, truism

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platitude
sent: responding with a platitude will not make her feel better

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acclaim, recognition, approval

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plaudit
sent: she earned every plaudit that she recieved for her work

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excess, overabundance, surplus

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plethora
sent: the shop houses a plethora of worthless castoffs

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argument, controversy, refutation

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polemic
sent: his polemic against the two-party system made us mad

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artful, shrewd, diplomatic

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politic
sent: your outburst was not politic and merely upset people

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ominous, significant, pompous
portentous sent: a portentous dark cloud seemed to hover over the hero
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entry, walkway, porch
portico sent: they stood under the portico to greet their guests
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hypothesize, assert, assume
postulate sent: what did early scientists postulate about lunar eclipses?
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practical, sensible, down-to-earth
pragmatic sent: she gave her som pragmatic advice as he set off for college
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to chatter, jabber, babble
prate sent: don't prate about your day when i am trying to work
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partiality, tendency, preferenec
predilection sent: in bakeried, my predilection is for anything chocolate
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headlong, rash, impulsive
precipitant sent: throughtful prepararion is better than precipitant action
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advanced, gifted, premature
precocious sent: her precocious daughter could red by the age of three
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to lie, evade, hedge
prevariacte sent: do not prevaricate; tell the panel what really happened
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prevalent, predominant, influential
preponderant sent: wineries are preponderant in the land between the lakes
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clairvoyant, psychic, perceptive
prescient sent: she seemed prescient when she correctly predicted the winner
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right, privilege, sanction
prerogative sent: it is their prerogative to ask for a legal opinion
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integrity, honestly, morality
probity sent: they believe that hos probuty is beyond reproach
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penchant, tendency, liking
proclivity sent: a proclivity for sweers may lead to tooth decay
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profligate, wasteful, dissolute
prodigal sent: her prodigal habits made her father put her on an allowance
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extraordinary, phenomenal, immense
prodigious sent: the table held a prodigious number of desserts
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dissolute, decadent, extravagant
profligate sent: profligate spending will bankrupt them in no time
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to predict, forecast, protend
prognosticate sent: what do tou prognosticate about next week's weather?
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to multiply, breed, reproduce
proliferate sent: wildflowers proliferate the moment it gets warm
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verbose, wordy, long-winded
prolix sent: his prolux spsech confused and exhausted his audience
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to broadcast, publicize, disseminate
promulgate sent: candidates promulgate their messages through social media
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closeness, proximity, relationship
propinquity sent: the propinquity of the shop to the highway made it desirable
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favorable, auspicious, promising
propitious sent: it is a propitious time to buy that particular stock
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straightforward, matter-of-fact, pedestrian
prosaic sent: prosaic worries prevent us from seeing the beauty around us
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to forbid, ban, prohibit
proscribe sent: do the rules proscribe bringing more than one guest?
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temporary, interim, short-term
provisional sent: it is a provisional appointment until we see how you perform
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skill, competence, expertise
prowess sent: the gymnast's prowess on the uneven bars amazed us
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lascivious, salacious, lecherous
prurient sent: keep that prurient literature out of hte hands of children
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juvenile, childish, immature
puerile sent: his puerile conduct would have seemed silly in a child of five
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combative, belligerent, argumentative
pugnacious sent: being agreeable may beat being pugnacious in this situation
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to crush, macerate, mash
pulverize sent: that machine is used in winemaking to pulverize graps
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to steal, pilfer, rob
purloin sent: she would purloin a quarter or two from his change jar
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cowardly, timid, spineless
pusillanimous sent: the pusillanimous officer ran away at the first sign of battle
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supposed, alleged, preseumed
putative sent: who was the putative winner of last night's election?
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to drink, imbibe, guzzle
quaff sent: quaff that beer, and let's be on our way
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predicament, quandary, dilemma
quagmire sent: deciding on a graduate school felt like a quamire to him
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to defeat, suppress, nullify
quash sent: don't their ideas; they have a right to express them
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wharf, dock, jetty
quay sent: several people were fishing from the end of the quay
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petulant, complaining, whiny
querulous sent: her querulous objections followedme down the hallways
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exemplary, prototypical, classic
quintessential sent: he is the quintessential leading man-articulate and attractive
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idealistic, romantic, impulsive
quixotic sent: my quixotic vision of a world at peace
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everyday, commonplacem usual
quotidian sent: they continued to follow their quotidian rountine
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zealous, fanatical, fervent
rabid sent: they are both rabid believers in the need for alternative energy
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carefree, breezy, ridicule
raffish sent: she tossed on her colorful scarf with a raffih air
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teasing, banter, ridicule
raillery sent: his raillery was meant in fun but felt hurtful
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boisterous, unruly, disorderly
rambunctious sent: the rambunctious girls oushed rudely through the crowd
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unrestrained widespread, extensive
rampant sent: rodents were rampant in the basement of the old museum
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esoteric, obscure, highbrow
rarefied sent: college life can seem rarefied to young blue-collor workers
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affinity, bond, relationship
rapport sent: we built up a rapport after working together for weeks
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starving, famished, voracious
ravenous sent: we were ravenous and stopped at the next diner we saw
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to reason, calculate, deduce
ratiocinate sent: i can't ratiocinate of you keep adding more information
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unmanageable, unruly, defiant
recalcitrant sent: recalcitrant middle- schoolers can be difficult to teach
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disavow, retract, renounce
recant sent: galileo wouls not recant his statements about the sun
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interchange, return, counter
reciprocate sent: we would like to reciprocate your hospitality sometimes

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