Set: Sarah GRE Words (143-162)

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Term Definition
Obsequious overly-submissive and eager to please; compliant, servile, deferential, subservient
Obstinate stubborn, unyielding; intransigent, pertinacious, mulish, persistent, tenacious
Obviate to prevent; to make unnecessary; forestall, preclude, prohibit
Occlude to stop up, prevent the passage of; barricade, obstruct, block
Onerous troublesome and oppressive; burdensome; arduous, formidable, laborious, rigorous
Opaque Impossible to see through, preventing the passage of light; obscure
Opprobrium public disgrace; disrepute, obloquy, ignominy, infamy
Ostentation excessive showiness; pretentiousness, conspicuousness
Paradox a contradiction or dilemma; incongruity, ambiguity
Paragon model of excellence or perfection; apotheosis, quintessence
Pendant someone who shows off learning
Perfidious willing to betray one's trust; treacherous, faithless, traitorous
Perfunctory done in a routine way; indifferent; apathetic, automatic, mechanical
Permeate to penetrate; imbue, pervade, infuse, suffuse
Pervasive to be present throughout, to permeate; imbue, infuse, penetrate
Philanthropy charity, a desire or effort to promote goodness; humanitarian, altuism
Phlegmatic calm and unemotional in temperament; impassive, calm, indifferent
Placate to soothe or pacify; appease, conciliate, mollify
Plastic able to be molded, altered or bent; adaptable, malleable, ductile, pliant
Plethora excess; superfluity, overabundance, surfeit, glut

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  1. Paragon → model of excellence or perfection; apotheosis, quintessence - 7 misses
  2. Occlude → to stop up, prevent the passage of; barricade, obstruct, block - 6 misses
  3. Obsequious → overly-submissive and eager to please; compliant, servile, deferential, subservient - 6 misses
  4. Perfidious → willing to betray one's trust; treacherous, faithless, traitorous - 5 misses
  5. Obviate → to prevent; to make unnecessary; forestall, preclude, prohibit - 4 misses
  6. Opprobrium → public disgrace; disrepute, obloquy, ignominy, infamy - 4 misses
  7. Onerous → troublesome and oppressive; burdensome; arduous, formidable, laborious, rigorous - 2 misses