| A | B |
|---|
| obsequious | overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| perjury | false testimony under oath |
| pernicious | very destructive or harmful, deadly |
| portent | a sign or forewarning |
| posterity | future generations, all descendants of a person |
| prate | to talk idly or foolishly at great length |
| presage | something that foreshadows a future event; foreknowledge of the future |
| profane | showing contempt toward sacred things |
| prostration | a stretching out due to lacking vitality and being completely overcome |
| quench | to extinguish, to put out; to relieve with liquid |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity |
| savory | appetizing |
| supple | easily bent, elastic, pliable |
| vexation | discomfort or distress |
| virtuous | having excellent morals; righteous |
| wanton | immoral, lewd |
