Lesson 38   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
palpable
panacea
paradox
paranoia
parasite
parochial
parody
parry
partial
partisan
passable
passive
patronize
paucity
pauper
pedestrian
peevish
penchant
peninsula
pensive
perennial
perfunctory
permeate
perpetrate
perpetuate
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      patronize 1. to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
___________________________ 2. an extremely poor person, esp. one who must live on public charity; down-and-out; beggar
___________________________ 3. to commit or carry out (a crime, act of mischief, or the like); pull
___________________________ 4. a strong liking for or inclination towards something; propensity; predisposition
___________________________ 5. a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing; takeoff; travesty
___________________________ 6. an animal or plant that lives on or in another organism and draws sustenance from it; hanger-on; lounge; bloodsucker
___________________________ 7. smallness of number or amount; scarcity; scant; insufficience
___________________________ 8. performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial; automatic; mechanical
___________________________ 9. continual or recurrent; long-lasting; continuing
___________________________ 10. to pass into or through every part of; compenetrate; interfuse
___________________________ 11. Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
___________________________ 12. capable of being passed through, beyond, or over; fit to be traversed, penetrated, crossed, etc., as a road, forest, or stream; negotiable
___________________________ 13. an area of land surrounded on nearly all sides by water, and connected to a mainland by a usu. narrow strip of land.
___________________________ 14. a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all; nostrum; elixir
___________________________ 15. biased or prejudiced in favor of a person, group, side, etc., over another, as in a controversy; warped
___________________________ 16. a statement that contradicts or seems to contradict itself, yet often expresses a truth, such as "Less is more".
___________________________ 17. to make perpetual; eternize; eternalize; immortalize
___________________________ 18. deep in a sad, melancholy, or dreamy thoughtfulness; contemplative; cogitative
___________________________ 19. to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert; sidestep; fence
___________________________ 20. a person who is walking, esp. on or near a street; banausic; dull; blah
___________________________ 21. a person who is strongly or actively devoted to some cause, idea, group, or person; adherent; follower; disciple
___________________________ 22. receiving an action without acting in return; inactive; inert
___________________________ 23. capable of being touched or felt; tangible; tactile; touchable
___________________________ 24. easily annoyed; ill-tempered; petulant; snappish; pettish
___________________________ 25. of or pertaining to a parish or parishes; small-town; provincial; sectarian