adj.

Peremptorius, "final", from per (Latin), "completely" +emere, emptus (Latin), "buy, obtain"+Orius (Latin), "characterized by"

Def: having the nature of a command in that it does not allow discussion, contradiction, or refusal.

prescriptive

Verb

Per (Latin), "harmefully, falsely"+ jurare (Latin), "swear"

def: to lie deliberately while under oath to tell the truth

to deny vehemently or under oath

(syn perjure)

to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression

(syn perjure)

verb

permeare, permeates (Latin), "pass through", from per (Latin), "through" + meare, meatus (Latin), "go, pass"

Def: to spread through, to penetrate

(syn permeate)

(syn permeate)

to penetrate with hostile intent

(syn permeate)

pernicious

adj

Perniciosus (Latin), "destructive", from per (Latin) "completely" + nex, nects (Latin), "Violent death" + osus (Latin), "full of"

Def: highly injurious or harmful

productive or destruction and woe

(syn of pernicious) 

favorable to or pormoting health; healthful

(ant of pernicious)

verb

perseverare (Latin) "persist", from per (Latin), "thoroughly" + severus (Latin), serious, in earnest

Def: to continue steadfastly despite obstacles or discouragement

to keep working in a determined way

(RF of persevere)

to keep doign something

(RF of persevere)

hold fast to a statement, opinio, or course of action

(RF of persevere)

to give up

(RF of persevere)

noun

Phobos (Greek), "fear, flight" + ia (Greek), "state of"

Def: an intense fear of something, any strong aversion

strong feeling of dislike

(syn of phobia)

aversion to

(syn of phobia)

a favorable bias or prejudice

(ant of phobia)

a tendency to think favorably or something in particular; partiality; preference

(ant of phobia)

noun

Plagiarius (Latin), "kidnapper", from plaga (Latin), "net"

Def: the use of another person's writing or ideas as one's own without acknowledging their source

an infringement of copyright

to copy someone's work without permission

(RF of plagiarism)

a petty theft

(RF of plagiarism)

adj

Plantif, plaintive (Old French), "sorrowful", from plangere, planctus (Latin), "Lament"

Def: sorrowful or melancholy, mournful

sorrowful, mournful, melancholy

(syn or plaintive)

full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievousl mournful

(syn or plaintive)

characterized by or causing dejectioin; cheerless; gloomy

(syn or plaintive)

given to shedding tears readily; tearful

(syn or plaintive)

pensive in a melancholy way

(syn or plaintive)

unstable; shifty, fleeting, having an oily smoothness

(syn or plaintive)

show sadness that is not sincere

(RF of plaintive)

noun

Plethora (Greek), "fullness"; from plethein (Greek), "be full"

Def: superabundance or excess

Profusion

state of abundantness

(syn or plethora)

to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea

(syn or plethora)

a superabundant or excessive amount

(syn or plethora)

to feed or fill to excess; cloy

(syn or plethora)

excess or overingdulence in eating or drinking

(syn or plethora)

deluge

to overwhelm with large amount or,  swarm

(syn or plethora)

great flood

to overwhelm

(syn or plethora)

smallness or insufficiency of number; fewness

(ant or plethora)

scarcity and dearness of food; famine

(ant or plethora)

the amount that the supply falls short by

(RF of plethora)

adj

Poignant, present participle of poindre (Old French), "sting"; from pungere (Latin), "puncture, sting"

Def: Keenly touching or moving

 involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past

(syn for poignant)

lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat

(ant of poignant)

without sufficent taste to be pleasing, as food or drink, bland

(ant of poignant)

adj

Precarius (Latin), "denepdent upon prayer or entreaty", from prex, precis (Latin) "prayer, entreaty" + arius (Latin), "relating to"

def: developing unusually early

very talented child

one who grows up late

(RF of precarious)

adj

praedari, praedatus (Latin), "plunger, pullage" + orius (Latin), "characterized by" from praeda (Latin), "booty"

Def: Preying on, plundering, or piratical

undertaken for plunder

(syn for predatory)

rapacious

given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed

(syn of predatory)

grossly excessive

(syn or predatory)

hunt

(RF for predatory)

uses up the resource

(RF for predatory)

greedy, predatory person

(RF for predatory)

noun

prae (Latin), "before"+ ludere, lusus (Latin), "play"

def: an introductory piece of music; anything that precedes or introduces something else.

to build the basics

the last practice

noun adn verb

Prae (Latin), "before, ahead" + mittere, missus (Latin), "send"

Def: A statment upon which an arugment is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.

To state or assume as the basis for something else; to offer in advance as an explanation or, or introductino to, something else

axiom

a self-evident truth that requires no proof

Syn of premise