Vocabulary Unit 8 Advanced English 2025

PENURIOUS is best defined as someone who is cheap or stingy.

A PEDANT is someone who

The word PALLIATE most nearly means

The word ORTHODOX most nearly means

The word OSTENSIBLE most nearly means

If you have a PRECARIOUS grasp on a subject, it means you understand it fully.

If you have a PENCHANT for something, that means

If your throat feels PARCHED, that means

To PLACATE someone is to rile him/her up--to excite and enthrall him/her.

If something is PLAUSIBLE, it is

The word PARADIGM most nearly means

Something that is POLEMICAL is

If someone is described as PIOUS, that means he/she denies God's existence and adapts heathen ways.

A PHILANTHROPIST gives largely to charities and the arts.

If you have a PAUCITY of something, that means you

PERIPHERAL means outermost or secondary.

PERFUNCTORY is best defined as doing something with passion and fervor.

A PLETHORA of something means that you have

A PARODY is

The word PARTISAN most nearly means

Someone who is PEEVISH is best described as

To PATRONIZE is to

The word PACIFIST most nearly means

Something that is PLIABLE is

PETULANT most nearly means easy-going and affable.