GRE考试真题常见词汇

plenary : complete; full

plenipotentiary : fully empowered

plumb : checking perpendicularity; vertical

poignant : keen; piercing; severe

politic : expedient; prudent; well devised

polyglot : speaking several languages

portentous : ominous; serious

portly : stately; stout

posthumous : after death

potential : expressing possibility; latent

practicable : feasible

practical : based on experience; useful

pragmatic : practical; concerned with practical values

precarious : uncertain; risky

precedent : preceding in time, rank, etc.

precipitate : headlong; rash

precipitous : steep

precocious : developed ahead of time

predatory : plundering

preeminent : outstanding; superior

prefatory : introductory

preposterous : absurd; ridiculous

pretentious : ostentatious; ambitious

prim : very precise and formal; exceedingly proper

primordial : existing at the beginning of time; rudimentary

pristine : characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled