Vocab Solution 3 Flashcards
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penury
“extreme poverty//penurious students keep on baging ““pen your please.pen your please”””
percussion
the sharp striking of one thing against another//i stopped percussion sound with cushion
perdition
damnation; ruin; hell//partition will lead to perdition
peregrination
wandering from place to place//we started a peregrination for migration
peremptory
expecting to be obeyed//peremptory order to empty home
perennial
lasting for a long time//perennial problem of nai in punjab
perfidy
faithlessness, treachery//perfidy of servant ki usne poisonous barfi di
perfunctory
done without care; in a routine fashion// he is running my factory in perfunctory
peripatetic
many short travels//its pathetic to have peripatic life style
perjury
lying under oath//speaking lie in front of jury is perjury
pernicious
harmful//nasha is pernicious
peroration
the concluding part of a speech//in the end of oration there is peroration
perpetuate
to cause to continue//petu ate to perpetuate his obesity
perspicacious
keen; mentally sharp//a perspicacious girl can tell how much money will be in boys purse
pert
attractive and neat//pert wears skirt
pertinent
having to do with the subject at hand; relevant//it is pertinent to keep tenant
perturb
to disturb greatly//if you perturb that means you disturb
peruse
(v.) to read thoroughly and carefully//peruse the manual before use
pervasive
to spread throughout//shiva is pervasive all over
perverse
contrary, persisting in error//some verses are perverse now
perversion
corruption; turning from right to wrong//perversion is the new version of society
pestilent
deadly//pesticides have pestilent effects
pestle
a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar//with the pestle we can make paste
petrify
scare, frighten//we have kept a pet to petrify