| A | B |
|---|
| philanthropist | lover of mankind; doer of good |
| piety | religious devotion; godliness |
| pitfall | hidden danger; concealed trap |
| pithy | concise; meningful;substantial; meaty |
| placate | pacify; conciliate |
| polemical | aggressive in verbal attack |
| ponderous | weighty; unwieldy |
| pragmatic | practical |
| prattle | babble |
| precarious | uncertain; risky |
| preclude | make impossible; eliminate |
| precocious | advanced in development |
| predator | creature that seizes and devours another animal; person who robs or exploits others |
| predecessor | former occupant of a post |
| presumptuous | overconfident; impertinently bold; taking liberties |
| pretentious | ostentatious; pompous; making unjustified claims; overly ambitious |
| prevalent | widespread; generally accepted |
| prodigal | wasteful;reckless with money |
| profane | violate; desecrate; treat unworthily |
| profligate | dissipated. wasteful |
| profound | deep; not superficial; complete |
| profusion | overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess |
| proliferation | rapid growth; spread; multiplication |
| prolific | abundantly fruitful |
| provincial | pertaining to a province; limited in outlook; unsophisticated |
| proximity | nearness |
| prudent | cautious; careful |
| quagmire | soft, wet, boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself. |
| qualified | limited; restricted |
| quell | extinguish; put down; quiet |
| querulous | fretful; whining |
| quiescent | at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive |
| ramble | wander aimlessly (physically or mentally) |
| rancor | bitterness; hatred |
| rant | rave; talk excitedly; scold; make a grandiloquent speech |
| ratify | aprrove formally;confirm; verify |
| raucous | harsh and shrill ; disorderly and boisterous |
| ravenous | extremely hungry |
| raze | destroy completely |
| rebuttal | refutation; resonse with contrary evidence |
| recant | disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error |
| recluse | hermit;loner |
| recount | narrate or tell; count over again |
| rectify | set right; correct |
| redundant | superfluous;repetitious; excessively wordy |
| refute | disprove |
| relegate | banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign |
| remission | temporary moderation of disease symptoms |
| remorse | guilt; self-reproach |
| renounce | abandon; disown; repudiate |
| repel | drive away; disgust |
| replete | filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
| reprehensible | deserving blame |
| reprimand | reprove severely; rebuke |
| reprove | censure; rebuke |
| repudiate | disown; disavow |
| repugnant | loathsome; hateful |
| rescind | cancel |
