Something that pervades is pervasive:
- There was a pervasive feeling of despair on Wall Street on the day the Dow-Jones
industrial average fell more than 500 points. - There was a pervasive odor of mold in the house, and we soon discovered why: The
basement was filled with the stuff.
prudent (PROOD unt) adj careful; having foresight
Mnemonic:A PROUD STUDENT is PRUDENT and careful about her schoolwork.- Joe is a prudent money manager. He doesn’t invest heavily in racehorses, and he puts
only a small part of his savings in the office football pool. Joe is the epitome of prudence.
The opposite of prudent is imprudent:
- It was imprudent of us to pour gasoline all over the floor of our living room and then light
a fire in the fireplace.
reciprocal (ri SIP ruh kul) adj mutual; shared; interchangeable
Mnemonic:In math, the RECIPROCAL of a number is its MIRROR image; the numbers SHARE
similarities.