List 2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Privation
Hardship, want
Primp
To groom oneself with care, adorn oneself
Prod
To poke, stir up, urge
Prodigious
Marvelous, enormous. Prodigious strength
Profligate
Wasteful, wildly immoral
Profound
Deep, not superficial. Complete. Profound understanding.
Profusion
Overabundance, lavish expenditure, excess
Preogative
Privilege, unquestionable right
Presage
To foretell
Prescience
The ability to foretell the future
Presentiment
Feeling something will happen, anticipatory fear, premonition
Presumtuous
Overconfident, impertinently bold
Preternatural
Beyond what is normal in nature
Pretext
Excuse
Prevaricate
To lie
Prim
Very precise and formal
Primordial
Existing at the beginning
Finicky
Too particular, fussy
Flaccid
Flabby, flaccid muscles
Flair
Talent
Fleck
To spot. flecked with tears
Fleece
To rob, plunder. I fleeced him of his $$
Flippant
Lacking proper seriousness
Floe
Mass of floating ice