Words 3200 - 3400

Question 1

overleap

Answer 1

verb

To leap beyond.

Question 2

overtone

Answer 2

noun

A harmonic.

Question 3

overture

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noun

Orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio.

Question 4

palinode

Answer 4

noun

A retraction.

Question 5

pall

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verb

To make dull by satiety.

Question 6

palliate

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verb

To cause to appear less guildy,

Question 7

pallid

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adjective

Of a pale or wan appearance.

Question 8

paly

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adjective

Lacking colour or brilliancy.

Question 9

pamphleteer

Answer 9

verb

To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.

Question 10

panacea

Answer 10

noun

A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.

Question 11

Pan-American

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adjective

Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.

Question 12

panegyric

Answer 12

noun

A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken of a person or of an act.

Question 13

panoply

Answer 13

noun

A full set of armour.

Question 14

pantheism

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noun

The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.

Question 15

Pantheon

Answer 15

noun

A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.

Question 16

pantoscope

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noun

A very wide-angled photographic lens.

Question 17

papacy

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noun

The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 18

papyrus

Answer 18

noun

The writing paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.

Question 19

parable

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noun

A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.

Question 20

paragon

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noun

A model of excellence.

Question 21

paramour

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noun

One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.

Question 22

pare

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verb

To cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything.

Question 23

Pariah

Answer 23

noun

A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.

Question 24

parish

Answer 24

noun

The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor.

Question 25

parlance

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noun Mode of speech

Question 26

parley

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verb To converse in.

Question 27

parlour

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noun A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.

Question 28

parody

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verb To render ludicrous by imitating the language of.

Question 29

paroxysm

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noun A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.

Question 30

parricide

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noun The murder of a parent.

Question 31

parse

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verb To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.

Question 32

parsimonious

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adjective Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.

Question 33

pastoral

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adjective Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.

Question 34

pathos

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noun The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.

Question 35

patrician

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adjective Of senatorial or noble rank.

Question 36

patrimony

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noun An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.

Question 37

patronize

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verb To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.

Question 38

patronymic

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adjective Formed after one's father's name.

Question 39

patter

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verb To mumble something over and over.

Question 40

paucity

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noun Fewness.

Question 41

pauper

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noun One without means of support.

Question 42

pauperism

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noun Dependence on charity.

Question 43

pavilion

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noun An open structure for temporary shelter.

Question 44

peccable

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adjective Capable of sinning.

Question 45

peccadillo

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noun A small breach of propriety or principle.

Question 46

peccant

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adjective Guilty.

Question 47

pecuniary

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adjective Consisting of money.

Question 48

pedagogics

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noun The science and art of teaching.

Question 49

pedagogue

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noun A schoolmaster.

Question 50

pedagogy

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noun The science and art of teaching.

Question 51

pedant

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noun A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.

Question 52

peddle

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verb To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.

Question 53

pedigree

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noun One's line of ancestors

Question 54

peerage

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noun The nobility.

Question 55

peevish

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adjective Petulant (irritable).

Question 56

Pellucid

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Adjective Translucent.

Question 57

penance

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noun Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself to as an expression of penitence.

Question 58

penetration

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noun Discernment.

Question 59

penitence

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noun Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.

Question 60

penitential

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adjective Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone

Question 61

pentavalent

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adjective Quinquevalent.

Question 62

pentad

Answer 62

noun The number five.

Question 63

pentahedron

Answer 63

noun A solid bounded by five plane faces.

Question 64

pentameter

Answer 64

noun In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet.

Question 65

pentathlon

Answer 65

noun The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.

Question 66

penurious

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adjective Excessively sparing in the use of money.

Question 67

penury

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noun Indigence (a state of extreme poverty)

Question 68

perambulate

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verb To walk about.

Question 69

percipience

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noun The act of perceiving.

Question 70

percipient

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noun One who or that which perceives.

Question 71

peremptory

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adjective Precluding question or appeal.

Question 72

perfidy

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noun Treachery.

Question 73

perfunctory

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adjective Half-hearted.

Question 74

perigee

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noun The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.

Question 75

peripatetic

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adjective Walking about.

Question 76

perjure

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verb To swear falsely to.

Question 77

perjury

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noun A solemn assertion of a falsity.

Question 78

pernicious

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adjective Tending to kill or hurt.

Question 79

perquisite

Answer 79

noun Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages

Question 80

persevere

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verb To continue striving in spite of discouragements.

Question 81

persiflage

Answer 81

noun Banter

Question 82

personage

Answer 82

noun A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station.

Question 83

perspicacious

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adjective Astute.

Question 84

perspicacity

Answer 84

noun Acuteness or discernment.

Question 85

perspicuous

Answer 85

adjective Lucid.

Question 86

pertinacious

Answer 86

adjective Persistent or unyielding

Question 87

pertinacity

Answer 87

noun Unyielding adherence