front 1 Ostracize | back 1 To exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.; to banish from one's native country |
front 2 Pallid | back 2 pale; faint or deficient in color; lacking in vitallity or intrest |
front 3 Palpable | back 3 readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived; obvious, evident; capable of being achieed or completed; capable of touching |
front 4 Panacea | back 4 a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all; an answer or colution for all problems or difficulties |
front 5 Paradox | back 5 a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses possible truth |
front 6 Paragon | back 6 a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence; someone of exceptional merit; epitome |
front 7 Pastoral | back 7 having the simplicity charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas |
front 8 Pathological | back 8 caused by or involving disease; caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition |
front 9 Pedestrian | back 9 a person who goes or travels on foot |
front 10 Penchat | back 10 a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something |
front 11 Penultimate | back 11 Next to the last |
front 12 Perfidious | back 12 Deceitful; deliberately faithless |
front 13 Peripheral | back 13 relativity minor aspect of the subject in question; relating to or situated on the edge or periphery |
front 14 Pernicious | back 14 Evil and cruel; fatal; deadly |
front 15 Persona | back 15 The aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others |
front 16 Perspicacity | back 16 The quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness |
front 17 Peruse | back 17 to read through with care |
front 18 Pervasive | back 18 spread throughout |
front 19 Placebo | back 19 An object that has no medical effect but is given to satisfy a patient or as a control for testing |
front 20 Prose | back 20 Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure |