pronunciation - correct spelling pronunciation - noun Not pronounciation.Example: His lack of education was evident in his pronunciation of ... |
propaganda - correct spelling propaganda - noun Example: The citizens were accustomed to governmental propaganda.... |
propagate - correct spelling propagate - verb Example: He sought to propagate a new hybrid tomato.... |
propeller - correct spelling propeller - noun Example: The plane’s propeller revved up before takeoff.... |
proper noun A proper noun names a specific person, place, time period, work of literature or art, and so on. It begins with a capital letter. Examples include: New York City Friday Shakespeare's play Hamlet Fre... |
prophecy - correct spelling prophecy - noun Example: The prophecy of the ancient seer came true.... |
prophet - correct spelling prophet - noun Example: Moses was the greatest prophet in the Old Testament.Example: She turned out to be a false ... |
propitious - vocabulary adjective Presenting favorable conditions; favorably inclined, auspicious. The time is now propitious, as he guesses, The meal is ended, she is bored and tired, Endeavours to engage her... |
prosaic - vocabulary adjective Unimaginative, dull, commonplace, matter-of-fact; vapid; humdrum; tiresome. It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.—Stendhal (Mar... |
proscribe - vocabulary verb To denounce or condemn something as dangerous or harmful; to prohibit, forbid. The public is harmed when lawmakers proscribe the use of a product that has been proved safe and useful. I... |
prospect - correct spelling prospect - noun (often in the plural ) and verb Example: The favorable business prospects... |
prostrate - vocabulary adjective Lying prone, or with the head to the ground, as in a gesture of humility, adoration, or subservience; physically weak or exhausted; utterly depressed or disconsolate.verb To... |
prostrate, prostate As a verb, to prostrate means "to throw oneself on the floor or lie facedown."The word prostrate also serves as an adj... |
Protasis and Apodosis Each and every grammatical expression has different names for it. Some are more common while ... |
prototype - vocabulary noun The model or original on which something else is based or formed; a thing or person serving to illustrate typical qualities of a larger class or group; something analogous to a later thing. The Ancient ... |
protract - vocabulary verb To prolong, draw out, lengthen the duration of.Note: The past-participial adjective protracted often appears, as in protract... |
proverbial - vocabulary adjective Derives from the noun proverb, which means a popular saying, usually of ancient and unknown origin, that expresses a commonplace truth. In the Bible, a proverb is a profo... |
prowess - vocabulary noun Exceptional strength, skill, and courage in battle; superior skill or ability. I am really greatly pleased at your standing so high in your form, and I am sure that this year it is better for you to be ... |
prurient - vocabulary adjective Inclined to lascivious or lustful thoughts and desires. Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.... |
psychiatrist - correct spelling psychiatrist - noun Example: The psychiatrist testified for the defendant.... |
psychology - correct spelling psychology - noun Example: She studied psychology in an attempt to understand herself.... |
publicly - correct spelling publicly - adverb Not publically.Grammar.com's section on the Parts of Speech discusses the demise of -ly adverbs. ... |
puerile - correct spelling puerile - adjective Example: He engaged in puerile behavior when he made a face at the meeting.... |
puerile - vocabulary adjective Pertaining to childhood; childish, immature, or trivial. The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. . . . The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends... |
punctilious - vocabulary adjective Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom; precise, scrupulous. His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wed... |
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