LAE VOCABULARY FLASH CARDS

PACIFIC

• MEANING• Tending to lessen conflict• Reflecting to use force as an instrument of policy• Having a soothing appearance or effect

• SYNONYM• Appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming

• ANTONYM• antagonizing

PALLID

• MEANING• Deficient in color• Lacking sparkle or liveliness

• SYNONYM• Ashen, ashy, blanched, cadaverous

• ANTONYM• Blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded

PALPABLE

• MEANING• Capable of being touched or felt• Easily perceptible• Easily perceptible by the mind

• SYNONYM• Appreciable, apprehensible, detectable

• ANTONYM• Impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable

PANDEMONIUM

• MEANING• A very noisy place• Wild uproar or noise

• SYNONYM• noise

• ANTONYM

PARADIGM

• MEANING• One that serves as a pattern or model

• SYNONYM• Epitome, prototype, image

• ANTONYM

PARADOX

• MEANING• A seemingly contradictory statement that may

nonetheless be true

• SYNONYM• Contradiction, mystery, puzzle, ambiguity

• ANTONYM

PARAGON

• MEANING• A model of excellence or perfection

• SYNONYM• Beau, ideal, classic, eidolon, exemplar

• ANTONYM

PARRY

• MEANING• To ward of a weapon or blow• To evade or turn aside something

• SYNONYM• Deflect, block, evade

• ANTONYM

PARSIMONY

• MEANING• The quality of being careful with money or resources• The quality or state of being stingy

• SYNONYM• Cheapness, cheeseparing, closeness

• ANTONYM• Diseconomy, wastefulness

PEDANTIC

• MEANING• Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning

especially its trivial aspects

• SYNONYM• Donnish, academic

• ANTONYM

PEER

• MEANING• One that is of equal standing with another: equal• Especially one belonging to the same societal group

especially based on age, grade, or status

• SYNONYM• Grandee, cord, milord, nobleman, gentleman

• ANTONYM

PERIPHERAL

• MEANING• Of, relating to, involving or forming a periphery or surface

part

• SYNONYM• Accessorial, accessory, appurtenant, auxiliary

• ANTONYM• Chief, main, principal

PLACATE

• MEANING• To soothe or mollify especially by concessions: appease

• SYNONYM• Pacify, gentle, gruntle

• ANTONYM

PIED

• MEANING• Having two or more colors in a pattern of patches or

spots• Piebald • Wearing pied clothing

• SYNONYM• Multi-color, piebald, vary-colored

• ANTONYM

PIGMENT

• MEANING• A substance that imparts black or white or a color to

other materials

• SYNONYM• Color, colorant, coloring

• ANTONYM

PIQUANT

• MEANING• Agreeably stimulating to the palate, especially: spicy• Engagingly provocate• Also: having a lively arch charm

• SYNONYM• Pert, poignant, pungent, salty

• ANTONYM• Insipid, zestless

PIQUE

• MEANING• A transient feeling of wounded vanity: resentment

• SYNONYM• Dudgeon, huff, miff, offense

• ANTONYM

PLACID

• MEANING• Serenely free of interruption or disturbance

• SYNONYM• Collected, composed, cool

• ANTONYM• Agitated, discomposed, disturbed

PLASTICITY

• MEANING• The quality or state of being plastic• The ability to retain shape attained by pressure

deformation

• SYNONYM• Malleability

• ANTONYM

PLATITUDE

• MEANING• The quality or state of being dull or insipid

• SYNONYM• Banality, bromide, chestnut

• ANTONYM

PLETHORA

• MEANING• A bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood

marked by turgescence and a florid complexion

• SYNONYM• Abundance, cornucopia, feast

• ANTONYM• Deficiency, inadequacy, undersupply

PLUCKY

• MEANING• Having or showing courage in the face of difficulties,

danger, etc.

• SYNONYM• Brave, spirited, daring, bold

• ANTONYM• Yellow, afraid, scared

PLUMMET

• MEANING• Drop sharply

• SYNONYM• Fall, crash, nose-drive

• ANTONYM

PONTIFICAL

• MEANING• The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff; esp. a

bishop

• SYNONYM• Doctrine, opimonated, dogmatic

• ANTONYM• Latitudinarian, undoctrine

POROUS

• MEANING• Capable of being penetrated

• SYNONYM• Passable, permeable

• ANTONYM• Impassable, impervious, nonporous

PRATE

• MEANING• Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

• SYNONYM• Blether, prattle, yack

• ANTONYM

PUMMEL

• MEANING• Strike, usually with the fist

• SYNONYM• Beat, punch, pound

• ANTONYM

PUNGENT

• MEANING• Strong and sharp

• SYNONYM• Strong, acrid

• ANTONYM• Moderate, dull, mild, bland

PRATTLE

• MEANING• To utter or make meaningless sounds suggestive of the

chatter of children

• SYNONYM• Babble, jabber

• ANTONYM

PRECEDENT

• MEANING• Prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance

• SYNONYM• Antecedent, foregoing

• ANTONYM• Ensuing, succeeding

PRECIPITATE

• MEANING• To move or act with violent or unwise speed

• SYNONYM• Cursory, overhasty

• ANTONYM• Deliberate, unhurried

PRECURSOR

• MEANING• One that precedes and indicates the approach of another

• SYNONYM• Foregoer, forerunner

• ANTONYM• Descendant

PREDESTINE

• MEANING• To destine, decree, determine, appoint, or settle

beforehand

• SYNONYM

• ANTONYM

PRESCIENCE

• MEANING• Human anticipation of the course of events

• SYNONYM• Foreknowledge, foresight

• ANTONYM• Improvidence, myopia

PREVARICATE

• MEANING• To deviate from the truth

• SYNONYM• Equivocate, lie

• ANTONYM

PRISTINE

• MEANING• Beginning to the earliest period or state

• SYNONYM• Brand-new, original

• ANTONYM• State, timeworn

PROCLIVITY

• MEANING• An inclination or predisposition toward something

• SYNONYM• Affection, affinity

• ANTONYM• Abomination, loathing

PRODIGAL

• MEANING• Characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure

• SYNONYM• Extravagant, wasteful

• ANTONYM• Conserving, economical

PREVALENT

• MEANING• Generally or widely accepted, practiced or favored

• SYNONYM• Conventional, customary

• ANTONYM• Nonstandard, unusual

PROBITY

• MEANING• Adherence to the highest principles and ideas

• SYNONYM• Decency, righteousness

• ANTONYM• Immorality, villainy

PRODIGY

• MEANING• An extraordinary, marvelous, or unusual

accomplishment, deed or event

• SYNONYM• Marvel, splendor

• ANTONYM• Dullness

PROFLIGATE

• MEANING• Wildly extravagant• Completely given up to dissipation

• SYNONYM• Squandering, wasteful

• ANTONYM• Conserving, frugal

PROFOUND

• MEANING• Having intellectual depth and insight

• SYNONYM• Abstruse, deep

• ANTONYM• Shallow, superficial

PROFUSE

• MEANING• Exhibiting great abundance; pouring forth liberally

• SYNONYM• Copious, lavish

• ANTONYM• Dribbling, trickling

PROLIFERATE

• MEANING• To grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or

offspring

• SYNONYM• Accelerate, accumulate

• ANTONYM• Decrease, diminish

PROLOGUE

• MEANING• A speech often in verse addressed to the audience by an

actor at the beginning of a play

• SYNONYM• Preliminary, prelude

• ANTONYM• Epilogue

PRONE

• MEANING• Having a tendency or inclination

• SYNONYM• Apt, given

• ANTONYM• Supine

PROPENSITY

• MEANING• An often intense natural inclination or preference

• SYNONYM• Aptness, proneness

• ANTONYM• Improper, inapplicable

PROPRIETY

• MEANING• Conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or

speech

• SYNONYM• Decorum, decency

• ANTONYM• Inappropriateness, indelicateness

PROSCRIBE

• MEANING• To publish the name of as condemned to death with the

property of the condemned forfeited to the state

• SYNONYM• Prohibit, forbid

• ANTONYM

PROVOCATIVE

• MEANING• Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate

• SYNONYM• Charged, stimulating

• ANTONYM• Non-inflammatory

PIOUS

• MEANING• Marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to

divine worship• Marked by conspicuous religiosity• Sacred / devotional as distinct from the profane or secular:

religious• Showing loyal reverence for a person / thing

• SYNONYM• Constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, fast, good, royal,

staunch, steady, steadfast

• ANTONYM• Disloyal, fairness, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious,

recreant, untrue

PHLEGMATIC

• MEANING• Resembling, consisting of, or producing he humor phlegm• Having or showing a slow and stolid temperament

• SYNONYM• Impassive

• ANTONYM

PHENOMENON

• MEANING• Observable fact or event• An object or aspect known through the senses rather

than by thought or intuition • A temporal / spatiotemporal object of sensory experience

as distinguished from a noumenon• A fact or event of scientific interest susceptible to

scientific description and explanation

• SYNONYM• Caution, flash, marvel, miracle, potent, prodigy,

sensation

• ANTONYM

PERVASIVE

• MEANING• Existing or spreading through every part of something

• SYNONYM

• ANTONYM

PERUSE

• MEANING• Examine / consider with attention and in detail: study• To look over or through in a casual or cursory manner• Read; esp. to read over in an attentive / leisure manner

• SYNONYM

• ANTONYM

PERTINENT

• MEANING• Having clear decisive relevance to the matter at hand

• SYNONYM• relevant

• ANTONYM

PERTURB

• MEANING• To cause to be worried / upset: disquiet• To throw into confusion: disorder• To cause to experience a perturbation

• SYNONYM

• ANTONYM

PERSPICACIOUS

• MEANING• Acute mental vision or discernment: keen

• SYNONYM• shrewd

• ANTONYM

PERMEABLE

• MEANING• Capable of being permeated: penetrable• Esp. having pores or openings that permit liquids or

gasses to pass through

• SYNONYM• Passable, penetrable, pervious, porous

• ANTONYM• Impassable, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, non

porous

OBSEQUIOUS

• MEANING• Marked by or exhibiting an attentiveness

• SYNONYM• subservient

• ANTONYM

OBLIVIOUS

• MEANING• Lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention• Lacking active conscious knowledge or awareness

• SYNONYM• Clueless, innocent, insensible, ignorant, unaware,

unconscious

• ANTONYM• Acquainted, aware, conscious, conversant, grounded,

informed

OBSCURE

• MEANING• Dark, dim• Not clearly seen or easily distinguished• Relatively unknown / not prominent or famous

• SYNONYM• Ambiguous, cryptic, deep, elliptical, enigmatic,

mysterious

• ANTONYM• Accessible, clear, non-ambiguous, obvious, plain,

unequivocal

OBSOLETE

• MEANING• No longer in use or no longer useful• If a kind or style no longer current

• SYNONYM• Dated, demoded, fossilized, medieval

• ANTONYM

OCCLUDE

• MEANING• To close up or block off• To come into contact with cusps of the opposing teeth

fitting together

• SYNONYM• Block, choke, clot, congest, clam

• ANTONYM• Clear, free, open, unblock, unplug

OBTUSE

• MEANING• Not painted• Lacking sharpness or quickness or sensibility or intellect• Difficult to comprehend: not clear or precise in thought or

expression

• SYNONYM• Dull, blunted

• ANTONYM• Cutting, edged, ground, keen, sharp

OBSTINATE

• MEANING• Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in

spite of reason, arguments or persuasion• Not easily remedied or removed

• SYNONYM• Bull headed, hard, hard headed, immovable,

inconvincible, inflexible

• ANTONYM• Agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible,

pliable

NEOPHYTE

• MEANING• a new convert• beginner

• SYNONYM• Convert, proselyte

• ANTONYM• Old hand, vet, veteran

NEXUS

• MEANING• A casual link• A connected group or series

• SYNONYM• Catena, catenation, concatenation, consecution

• ANTONYM

NOCTURNAL

• MEANING• Of, relating to, or occurring in the night• Active at night

• SYNONYM• Night, nightly

• ANTONYM• Daily, diurnal

NOVICE

• MEANING• A person admitted to probationary membership in a

religious community

• SYNONYM• Abecedarian, apprentice, babe, colt, cub

• ANTONYM• Old hand, old timer, vet

NOXIOUS

• MEANING• Physically harmful or destructive to living beings• Constituting a harmful influence on man’s behavior

• SYNONYM• Insalubrious, noisome, unhealthy, sickly

• ANTONYM• Healthful, healthy

NUANCE

• MEANING• A subtle distinction or variation• A subtle quality: nicety• Sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate

shadings

• SYNONYM• ANTONYM

NUCLEATE

• MEANING• To form into a nucleus: cluster• To act as a nucleus for • To supply nuclei to

• SYNONYM

• ANTONYM

NUGATORY

• MEANING• To little or no consequence• Having no force

• SYNONYM• Bad, inoperative, invalid, nonbinding, non-valid, null, void

• ANTONYM• Binding, good, valid

NULLIFY

• MEANING• To make null• Esp. to make legally null and void• To make of no value or consequence

• SYNONYM• Negate, annul, abrogate, invalidate

• ANTONYM

OBDURATE

• MEANING• Stubbornly persistent in wrong doing• Hardened in feelings• Resistant to persuasion or softening influences

• SYNONYM• Affectless, callous, cold-blooded, compassionless

• ANTONYM• Charitable. Compassionate, humane, hard hearted

OBJECTIVE

• MEANING• Relating to or existing as an object of thought without

consideration of independent existence• Condition in the realm of experience independent of

individual thought and perceptible by all observers

• SYNONYM• Existential, experiential, experimental, empirical,

observational

• ANTONYM• Non-empirical, theoretical, unempirical