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English Word Dictionary

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pentatone

noun · a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted

pep up

verb · make more interesting or lively

Example: juice up a party

pepper tree

noun · small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and clusters of creamy flowers resembling lilacs

peptize

verb · disperse in a medium into a colloidal state

per diem

adverb · one every day

Example: we'll save 100 man-hours per diem

per se

adverb · with respect to its inherent nature

Example: this statement is interesting per se

peradventure

adverb · by chance

Example: perhaps she will call tomorrow

percent

noun · a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

perceptually

adverb · with regard to perception

Example: this task is perceptually very difficult

percy grainger

noun · United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)

peremptorily

adverb · in an imperative and commanding manner

perfectly

adverb · completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

Example: an absolutely magnificent painting

perfidiously

adverb · in a perfidious manner

Example: he was playing perfidiously one side against the other

perfunctorily

adverb · in a set manner without serious attention

Example: they answered my letter pro forma

perfuse

verb · cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

Example: The sky was suffused with a warm pink color

perilously

adverb · in a dangerous manner

Example: he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge

periodontal

adjective · of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics

Example: periodontal disease

perish

verb · pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Example: She died from cancer

periwig

noun · a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries

permanent

adjective · continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place

Example: permanent secretary to the president

permeant

adjective · spreading or spread throughout

Example: armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations

perpendicularly

adverb · in a perpendicular manner

Example: this red line runs perpendicularly to the green line

perpetuate

verb · cause to continue or prevail

Example: perpetuate a myth

perplexedly

adverb · in a perplexed manner

Example: he looked at his professor perplexedly

perseverate

verb · psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus

Example: The subjects in this study perseverated

persevere

verb · be persistent, refuse to stop

Example: he persisted to call me every night

persist in

verb · do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop

Example: We continued our research into the cause of the illness

personal judgment

noun · a judgment rendered against an individual (or corporation) for the payment of money damages

personalise

verb · make personal or more personal

Example: personalized service

personalized

adjective · made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual

Example: personalized luggage

personally

adverb · as a person

Example: he is personally repulsive

personate

verb · attribute human qualities to something

Example: The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous

perspicacious

adjective · mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

Example: too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow

perspicuously

adverb · in a clear and lucid manner

Example: this is a lucidly written book

perspire

verb · excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin

Example: Exercise makes one sweat

persuadable

adjective · being susceptible to persuasion

persuasively

adverb · in a persuasive manner

Example: this essay argues so persuasively...

pertain

verb · be a part or attribute of

pertinaciously

adverb · in a dogged and pertinacious manner

Example: he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution

perturb

verb · throw into great confusion or disorder

Example: Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt

pervade

verb · spread or diffuse through

Example: An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration

perversely

adverb · deliberately deviant

Example: his perversely erotic notions

pes planus

noun · a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out

pessimistically

adverb · with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner

Example: he evaluated his chances for survival rather pessimistically

pestilential

adjective · likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift

Example: a pestilential malignancy in the air

petaled

adjective · (of flowers) having petals

petchary

noun · a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird

petticoated

adjective · wearing or furnished with a petticoat

Example: petticoated ladies

pettishly

adverb · in a petulant manner

Example: he said testily; `Go away!'

pezophaps

noun · constituted by the extinct solitaire

phantasm

noun · something existing in perception only

Example: a ghostly apparition at midnight

phantom

adjective · something apparently sensed but having no physical reality

Example: seemed to hear faint phantom bells

pharisaical

adjective · excessively or hypocritically pious

Example: a sickening sanctimonious smile

pharmaceutic

adjective · of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists

Example: the pharmaceutical industry

pharmacologically

adverb · with regard to pharmacology

Example: pharmacologically, this plant could have important applications

phd

noun · a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study

phenomenal

adjective · exceedingly or unbelievably great

Example: the bomb did fantastic damage

philanthropic

adjective · generous in assistance to the poor

Example: a benevolent contributor

philatelically

adverb · in a philatelic manner

Example: the Post Office honors great Americans philatelically