Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #62.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

P – Q: SAT Words 177

1. partisan


2. passive


3. paternal


4. pellagra


5. penurious


6. perceive


7. perception


8. perceptive


9. perfidy

a. intuition

b. submissive

c. discern

d. treachery

e. intuitive

f. follower

g. fatherly

h. miserly

i. illness

performance(poer FAWR mins) n.1. the act of doing something; accomplish-
ment; execution; fullfillment; 2. effectiveness of operation; 3. some deed or feat
done; 4. a presentation before an audience

• Jack Nicholson has won the Oscar for best performanceby an actor on more
  than one occasion.


• Running on clean oil improves the performanceof your car’s engine.


• The boxer’s manager was pleased with his performancein his last fight.


• Lois and Barney attended last night’s performanceof Cats.
  perfunctory(poer FUHNK tir ee) adj.1. done without care; done routinely;
  superficial; 2. indifferent; lacking in concern


• The mechanic gave a perfunctorylook at the car before telling its owner
  that it needed a new muffler.


• When told that she’d need to update her medical insurance coverage,
  Greta gave a perfunctoryshrug.
  [perfunctorily adv., perfunctoriness n.]
  periphery(poer IF ir ee) n.1. the edge; an outside boundary line; the perime-
  ter; 2. an outside surface, especially of a spherical object; 3. the immediate sur-
  rounding territory; outskirts


• The airport was just at the peripheryof the pilot’s field of vision.


• One can usually tell if a basketball is properly inflated by squeezing its
  peripheryand giving it a bounce.


• The new mall is being built just at the peripheryof the most heavily popu-
  lated area.
  [peripheral adj., peripherally adv.] [Syn. circumference]