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