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| plebiscite | n. a direct vote by the people on an important issue |
| politic | adj. wise in looking out for one's own interests; prudent; shrewd |
| predilection | n. a prefrence based on personal feelings; a predisposition |
| prescience | n. knowledge of things before they exist or happen |
| presumptuous | adj. acting without permission or right; arrogant |
| primordial | adj. from earliest times; primitive |
| priority | n. something that is first in order of time or importance; precedence |
| proffer | v. to offer; n. an offer |
| prognosis | n. a forecast; a prediction about the course of a disease |
| proletarian | n. a working-class person; adj. of or belonging to the working class |
| propitiate | v. to make reconciliation; to appease someone who has been angered |
| propitious | adj. favorable; favorably inclined |
| proponent | n. an advocate; a person who supports a couse or idea |
| proscribe | v. to forbid; to prohibit as wrong or dangerous |
| prospective | adj. probable; expected |
| protagonist | n. the main character in a literary work |
| protégé | n. someone whose welfare or career is promoted by an influential person |
| prototype | n. an original model on which subsequent forms are based |
| proxy | n. a person who is given the authority to act for another; written proof of such authority |
| pseudonym | n. a pen name; a fictitious name assumed by an author |
| pun | n. a play on words; v. to make a play on words |
| punctilious | adj. meticulous; paying attention to the fine details of etiquette |
| purport | v. to claim to be or do something; n. the apparent purpose or main idea of something |
| pusillanimous | adj. cowardly |
| querulous | adj. complaining, fault-finding, fretful |
| quiescent | adj. inactive, still |
| raillery | n. good-humored ridicule, joking |
| raucous | adj. harsh-sounding, loud and rowdy |
| reactionary | adj. advocating a return to an earlier social, political, or economic policy or condition; n. a person who advocates a return to an earlier condition |
| recalcitrant | adj. obstinate, resisting authority or control |
| reciprocate | v. to give or do in return; to move with a back-and-forth motion |
| redundant | adj. unnecessarily wordy or repetitive; superfluous |
| regale | v. to delight or entertain, esp. by providing with a lavish feast |
| regimen | n. a set of rules or habits of diet, exercise or manner of living intended to improve health, reduce weight, etc. |
| remission | n. a release from a debt or a duty; a lessening of intensity |
| remuneration | n. a payment for goods or services |
| repartee | n. a quick witty reply or retort; cleverness and wit in making such replies |
| replete | adj. abundantly supplied; filled to capacity |
| repository | n. a place where things are put for safekeeping; a person to whom something is confided or entrusted |
| repugnance | n. a strong feeling of dislike or distaste; an aversion |
| residual | adj. remaining, left-over n a remainder left over after the completion of a process |
| restitution | n. the return of what has been lost or taken away; making good any loss or damage |
| retroactive | adj. applying to or having an effect on events that are past |
| retrospect | n. a contemplation or survey of things that happened in the past |
| revelation | n. something made known; a dramatic disclosure of somthing startling or new |
| rostrum | n. a raised platform for public speaking |
| rotund | adj. round; plump; sounding rich and full |
| sagacity | n. keen, sound judgement; mental acuteness; shrewdness |
| salient | adj. standing out; easily seen or noticed n. the part of a military defense closest to enemy lines |
| saline | adj. relating to salt; salty |
