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persistent, a. contumacious, persevering, insistent, pertinacious, tenacious, importunate, constant.
personality, n. individuality; reflection, stricture, animadversion, criticism.
personally, adv. individually.
personate, v. impersonate.
personation, n. impersonation.
perspiration, n. See sweat.
perspire, v. sweat.
persuade, v. induce.
persuasion, n. inducement, suasion, incitement; creed, belief.
Antonyms: dissuasion, coercion, constraint.
persuasive, a. persuasory.
pert, a. sprightly, dapper, nimble; forward, bold, saucy, malapert.
pertain, v. appertain.
pertinacious, a. resolute, determined, stubborn.
pertinacity, n. resoluteness, persistence, doggedness, stubbornness.
pertinence, n. relevancy, applicability, propriety. Antonyms: impertinence, irrelevance.
pertinent, a. relevant, apposite, applicable, proper. Antonyms: impertinent, irrelevant.
perturb, v. disquiet, excite, disturb, agitate, discompose, distress.
perturbation, n. excitement, agitation, discomposure, distress, disconcertion, worry. Antonyms: composure, imperturbation, calmness.
perturbed, a. excited, distressed, worried, discomposed, agitated.
perusal, n. reading.
peruse, v. read.
perverse, a. perverted, misdirected, erring, depraved, vitiated; intractable, obstinate, stubborn, contrary, headstrong, indocile.
Antonyms: See obedient.
perversion, n. debas.e.m.e.nt, vitiation, corruption, falsification.
pervert, v. lead astray, corrupt, debase, vitiate; misuse, misapply, misinterpret, distort, falsify.
pervious, a. permeable, penetrable. Antonym: impervious.
pesky, a. (Colloq.) vexatious, troublesome.
pessimistic, a. gloomy, foreboding, hopeless.
pest, n. pestilence, plague, scourge; curse, nuisance, annoyance, infliction, bane.
pester, v. plague, badger, hara.s.s, harry, tease, torment, hector, disturb, molest.
pest house, n. lazaretto, lazar-house.
pestiferous, a. infectious, contagious, pestilential; noxious, noisome.
pestilence, n. plague, scourge, fatal epidemic.
pestilent, a. pestiferous.
pet, n. fondling, darling, favorite; cosset; tiff.
pet, v. humor, coddle, fondle, cosset, caress, indulge.
pet, a. favorite, petted, cade.
peter out. (Slang) dwindle.
pet.i.tion, n. entreaty, supplication, prayer.
pet.i.tion, v. entreat, supplicate, pray.
pet.i.tioner, n. suppliant, applicant, solicitor.
petrifaction, n. lapidification, petrescence, lapidescence; fossil, stone.
petrify, v. lapidify, fossilize.
petticoat, n. underskirt; balmoral.
petty, a. small, insignificant, trivial, trifling.
petulant, a. See cross.
pew, n. slip.
phantom, n. spectre, apparition, ghost.
phantomlike, a. spectral, ghostly.
pharmaceutist, n. apothecary, druggist.
