| A | B |
|---|
| Anglophile | one who greatly admires England
its customs and its people |
| bibliophile | one who loves books; a book collector |
| philatelist | one who loves stamps; a stamp collector |
| philharmonic | loving harmony; devoted to music;
a symphony orchestra |
| philodendron | loving trees; a tropical climbing plant that
likes the shade of trees |
| philosopher | one who loves and pursues wisdom through reasoning |
| philosophy | the love and pursuit of wisdom through reasoning |
| acrophobia | an excessive or illogical fear of high places |
| claustrophobia | an excessive or illogical fear of enclosed places |
| hydrophobia | an abnormal fear of water; also refers to rabies |
| phobia | an excessive or illogical fear of some particular thing or situation |
| phobic | excessively fearful |
| photophobia | an abnormal intolerance of light |
| technophobia | a fear of technology; computer anxiety |
| xenophobia | fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers |
| cacophony | bad sounds; disagreeable or discordant sounds |
| megaphone | large sound; a cone-shaped device for making the sound of the voice greater |
| microphone | an instrument for intensifying weak (small) sounds |
| phonetics | the branch of language study dealing with speech sounds and their symbols |
| phonics | the use of the sounds of letters and groups of letters in teaching beginners to read |
| phonograph | a machine for playing recorded sounds |
| polyphonic | having two or more independent melodies all harmonizing |
| saxophone | a wind instrument |
| stereophonic | solid sound; giving a multidimensional effect to sound |
| symphony | sounds together; an orchestra; music written for an orchestra |
| postdate | to date a chick or other document with a future date rather than the actual date |
| posterior | located behind (as opposed to anterior, located in front) |
| posterity | those who come after; future generations |
| postgraduate | relating to a course of study after college graduation |
| posthumously | after the death of the father, as a child born posthumously; after the death of the author, as a boook published posthumously; after one's death, as an award received posthumously |
| Post impressionist | after the Impressionists; a school of painting in France in the late nineteenth century that followed the Impressionistss. Cezanne and Mattisse were Postimpressionists. |
| postlude | a piece of music played after a church service |
| post meridiem | after noon |
| postmortem | an examination after death; an autopsy |
| postpone | to put off until afterward |
| postscript | a note written after the main body of a letter |
| preposterous | having the before part where the after part should be; contrary to nature, reason or common sense; absurd. The idea of flying to the moon was once considered preposterous |
| preamble | a walking before; a preliminary statement to a document |
| precedent | an act that goes before and may serve as an example for later acts |
| precipitate | to dash head-first; to hasten the occurrence of |
| precise | to cut off unnecessary parts beforehand; sharply defined and exact |
| preclude | to shut out beforehand; to make impossible by a previous action; to prevent |
| precocious | ripened before time; prematurely developed, as a precocious child |
| predilection | to love before others; a preference |
| preeminent | standing out before all others |
| prejudice | a judgment formed beforehand without examination of the facts |
| prelude | an introductory piece of music; a concert piece for piano or orchestra; an introductory performance or action preceding a more important one. |
| preponderant | outweighing; having more power or importance |
| prerequisite | something required beforehand |
| presage | to perceive beforehand; to predict |
| prevail | to be strong before all others; to win, as to prevail over the other contestants |
| prevent | to come before in order to keep from happening; to hinder |
| unprecedented | never having happened before |
| phil | to love |
| phob | fear |
| phon | sound |
| post | after |
| pre | before |
| vindictive | adj. disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful
syn: revengeful, spiteful, vengeful
ant: forgiving |
| felicitous | adj. well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate
syn: apt, becoming, befitting
ant: improper, inappropriate, unfitting |
| censure | verb: reprove
syn: upbraid, chide, reprove; criticize blame; hit knock pan
ant: praise |
| sanguine | adj. Hopeful; confident; cheerful, ruddy
syn: cheerful, confident, hopeful, ruddy
ant: morose, hopeless, pessimistic |
