| A | B |
|---|
| meticulous | very careful about details |
| mitigate | to make less severe |
| morose | gloomy; bad |
| nomenclature | a systematic naming in an art |
| nonchalance | carelessness |
| obliterate | to blot out leaving no traces |
| obscure | not clear or distinct |
| obsolete | out-of-date |
| officious | meddling; giving unneccessary advice |
| opportunist | one who takes advantage of opportunity |
| opulent | wealthy; abundant |
| overt | no hidden; open |
| painstaking | very careful; diligent |
| pariah | an outcast |
| parsimonious | too thrifty; stingy |
| partisan | showing strong support for a party |
| paucity | scarcity |
| peerless | having no equal |
| perceptive | discerning; observant |
| perfidy | treachery; betrayal of trust |
| peripheral | external; incidental |
| peruse | to study; read |
| philistine | narrow-minded |
| piety | devotion adn reverence |
| pique | to hurt the feelings of or make resentful |
| placate | to soothe; to pacify |
| placid | outwardly calm; composed |
| plagiarize | to take ideas or writings and use as your won |
| platitude | a thought or remark that's dull |
| pompous | important; stately |
| ponderous | very heavy; bulky |
| pragmatic | practical; opinionated |
| preclude | to make impossible; shut out |
| precocious | having or showing more more ability than is normal at a young age |
| prestigious | honored; having a reputation |
| pretentious | claiming or demanding position of distinction |
| procrastinate | to put off doing soemthing until at later time |
| prodigious | enormous; extraordinary |
| profane | secular; not hold |
| profusion | abundance |
| prolific | producing many offspring |
| propensity | a natural leaning tendency |
| provincial | having the ways and speech a certain ? |
| prudent | careful or cautious in a sensible way |
| pugnacious | eager and ready to fight |
| quandary | condition of being doubtful |
| querulous | peevish; faultfinding |
| quixotic | idealistic and utterly impractical |
| raconteur | a person skilled at telling stories |
| rancor | deep spite or mallice |
