GRE Words Starting With P

To bring peace to; to calm down; to appease

Done with or employing great care and thoroughness

to make less severe without removing the cause; to ease or mitigate

so intense as to seem almost touchable; readily perceived

Small or meager; of little value or importance

A public speech or writing in praise of someone or something

A typical example or pattern of something; a model

a model of excellence or perfection

More important than anything else; supreme

The state or condition of being equal, especially in status or pay

Unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy

extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources; stinginess

Existing only in part; incomplete; showing favoritism

a strong, often blindly biased supporter of a party or cause

(adjective) Easily recognizable; obvious; blatant

Treating with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority

The presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities

A person who is excessively concerned with minor details, rules, and academic formality

Lacking inspiration or excitement; dull

The recorded ancestry or lineage of an animal or person; distinguished ancestry

Translucently clear; easily understood

a strong habitual liking or inclination

Extremely poor; poverty-stricken; also stingy

extreme poverty; destitution

Having or showing sensitive insight

Lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring

deceitful and treacherous; disloyal

Deliberate breach of faith or trust; treachery

Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection

Traveling from place to place; itinerant

Using many words where fewer would suffice; roundabout

Lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely

Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

Never ending or changing; occurring repeatedly

Continuing in a course of action despite difficulty or opposition

Clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid

Holding firmly to an opinion or course of action; persistent

To read or examine, typically with great care

Spreading widely throughout an area or group of people

Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen

To make someone so frightened that they are unable to move or think; to become hardened or rigid

childishly sulky or bad-tempered; peevish

Seeking to promote the welfare of others; generous

having an unemotional, stolidly calm disposition

devout religious devotion or dutiful respect

Stupidly obstinate

Involving new ideas or methods

Concise and forcefully expressive

To make someone less angry or hostile; to appease

Not easily upset or excited; calm and peaceful

expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful

A remark or statement that has been used too often and is therefore uninteresting

Praise; enthusiastic approval

Seeming reasonable or probable; credible and deserving of belief

Existing in or yielding great quantities; abundant

Using more words than necessary; redundant

A large or excessive amount of something

Easily bent or shaped; flexible and adaptable

Easily bent; flexible; or easily influenced

to fall or drop sharply

Dividing into sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs

a strong verbal or written attack on a belief or opinion

Affectedly and irritatingly grand or self-important

slow and labored due to great weight or dullness; clumsy and heavy

To be a sign or warning that something is likely to happen

A sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen

Dealing with things sensibly and realistically; practical

To talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way

an introductory statement; a preliminary preface

dangerously insecure or unstable; uncertain

A general rule intended to regulate behavior or thought

(verb/adjective) To cause to happen suddenly; done hastily without thought

Dangerously high or steep; done suddenly without careful consideration

showing mature qualities at an unusually early age

A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner

A person who held a job or office before the current holder

a strong preference or liking for something

Surpassing all others; very distinguished in some way

Thought out or planned beforehand

A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant

To be a sign or warning of; an omen or portent

Having knowledge of events before they take place; prophetic

To recommend or authorize; to lay down as a rule

overstepping proper bounds; arrogantly bold

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than actually possessed

To speak or act evasively; to avoid telling the truth

Existing at or from the beginning of time; primeval

First in order of importance; main; the head of a school

A fundamental truth or proposition; a rule or belief governing behavior

in its original, unspoiled, pure condition

complete honesty and integrity; uprightness

a natural tendency or inclination, often toward something undesirable

Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant

remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree

Competent or skilled in doing or using something

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

Very great or intense; having or showing great knowledge or insight

Produced or given in large amounts; plentiful

An abundance or large quantity of something

To foretell or prophesy future events

To move forward or onward in space or time; to develop toward an improved state

To increase rapidly in numbers; multiply

Producing much fruit, foliage, or many offspring; producing abundant works or results

Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy

a natural inclination or tendency

Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future

to appease or win the goodwill of

Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable

conformity to accepted standards of conduct

Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace or dull

To forbid or prohibit; to condemn or denounce

readily able to change form or character; versatile

Occurring at a favorable or useful time; lucky or fortunate

Arranged or existing for the present, possibly to be changed later

Acting with or showing care and thought for the future

Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight

a self-styled expert who comments authoritatively, especially in media

Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly