SAT巴朗3500词汇表之第184篇

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pauper N. /叫花子;非常可怜的人/very poor person. Though Widow Brown was living on a reduced income, she was by no means a pauper.

peccadillo N. /轻罪，轻微冒犯/slight offense. When Peter Piper picked a peck of Polly Potter's pickles, did Pete commit a major crime or just a peccadillo?

pecuniary ADJ. /钱的，货币的/pertaining to money. Seldom earning enough to cover their expenses, folk dance teachers work because they love dancing, not because they expect any pecuniary reward.

pedagogy N. /教育学/teaching; art of education. Though Maria Montessori gained fame for her innovations in pedagogy, it took years before her teaching techniques were common practice in American schools.

pedant N. /学究式人物/scholar who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities. Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar.

pedantic ADJ. /书生气的/showing off learning; bookish. Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes, Judge Walker was not at all the pedantic legal scholar. pedant, pedantry, N.

pedestrian ADJ. /没有想象力的，普通的/ordinary; unimaginative. Unintentionally boring, he wrote page after page of pedestrian prose.

pediatrician N. /儿科/expert in children's diseases. The family doctor advised the parents to consult a pediatrician about their child's ailment.

peerless ADJ. /不可比较的，不相衡的，无可匹敌的/having no equal; incomparable. The reigning operatic tenor of his generation, to his admirers Luciano Pavarotti was peerless: no one could compare with him.

pejorative ADJ. /轻蔑;蔑视的/negative in connotation; having a belittling effect. Instead of criticizing Clinton's policies, the Republicans made pejorative remarks about his character.

pellucid ADJ. /透明;清澈;明白的/transparent; limpid; easy to understand. After reading these stodgy philosophers, I find Bertrand Russell's pellucid style very enjoyable.

penchant N. /倾向;趣味/strong inclination; liking. Dave has a penchant for taking risks: one semester he went steady with three girls, two of whom were stars on the school karate team.

pendant N. /装饰品;首饰/ornament (hanging from a necklace, etc.) Thegrateful team presented the coach with a silver chain and pendant engraved with the school's motto.

penitent ADJ. /悔过的/repentant. When he realized the enormity of his crime, he became remorseful and penitent, also N. 

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