Vocab List #4

1.penury-noun- severe poverty/extreme scarcity or shortage

2. Perdition-noun-complete ruin/ total destruction

3. Perfidious-adj.- purposely disloyal or treacherous/faithless

4. Pernicious- adj.- having a very harmful or fatal effect

5.plethora- noun- too great an amount/ overabundance

6.posthumus- adj.- beginning occurring or continuing after ones death

7.prate- intransitive verb- to talk excessively in an meaningless manor

8. Prescience-noun- knowledge of future occurrences

9.prevaricate- intransitive-to lies or misleads

10.primordial-adj.- being earliest existing from the beginning

11.pundit-noun- one who is learned or expert in a field

12.refractory- adj.- obstinately disobedient/ difficult to control

13.retentive- adj.- having the ability to remember

14.sanguine-adj.- having an optimistic temperament or outlook

15. Skinflint- noun- a stingy person

16.spurious- adj.- deceptively appealing/ misleading

17. Stolid-adj.- not showing range of emotion

18.strident-adj- harsh sounding and loud/ raucous grating