Word Selection

parol n. (Law) oral communication..

peculation n., embezzlement..

perennial adj. lasting for an indefinitely long time; perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent..

perfervid adj. ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion...

peripatetic adj. walking or traveling about; itinerant; a person who walks or travels about..

pestiferous adj. Bearing or bringing disease; infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease; morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious; troublesome; annoying..

piebald adj. having patches of black and white or of other colors; parti-colored..

pique v., n. to affect with sharp irritation and resentment, esp. by some wound to pride..; (related, look at: dudgeon)

plebeian adj. belonging or pertaining to the common people; common, commonplace, or vulgar..

preponderate v.i. to exceed something else in weight; be the heavier; to be superior in power, force, influence..

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