P Vocabulary Words Quiz #1

Could you accept perspirate for perspire?

I second this

Same here!

I fourth it!

i fifth it!

and ridiculous

Could you accept more spellings of perjury? I tried purjory and purjury

I tried pergury, purgery, etc. but eventually got it.

Damn you pectin for ruining my perfect score!

"To communicate via gesture, not speech" - how about proxemics?

lol I wrote player for person who has multiple wives

Plutocracy: Rule by planetoids.

I typed Plutarchy and couldn't figure out why it wasn't accepted. I suppose that would be rule by a Greek historian.

Just looked up the word plutocracy on Wikipedia and it says, "A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income." Maybe I was correct after all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy

Phenom should work for "highly gifted child."

A phenom is not necessarily a child. It is usually used to identify a person (of any age) who is a once in a generation type of person in whatever they do. Phenom is just short for phenomenon, which is defined as something that is impressive or extraordinary. Anyone can be a phenom.

It seems like placebo should not really be called medicine. Its just a sugar pill mostly used in experiments. I would probably have got it if the clue was "pill with no active ingredients". Good quiz!

I agree, I was trying to think of a word for homeopathy that started with 'p'.

Doctors sometimes prescribe placebos because of the well known and documented placebo effect. So... they can work as a medicine, in a way.

Prodigal prodigy. If the quiz accepted prodig I would have had it.

For 'to turn into stone' I put paralyze...XD

Did not get the 'Pectin' one till afterwards when I realised it meant 'JAM' and not what we who are not in the USA call Jelly........... ha ha

Oh yeah! I would have got pectin if they had said jam!

So what do you call clear liquid that is gelled? Our jam has bits of fruit in it, but jelly is the clear juice of fruits with pectin added to make it gel - although some fruits such as gooseberries, lemons, and green apples have natural pectin and will gel without added pectin. Whole or large pieces of fruits cooked in syrup until they gel are called preserves. Do you have all of those?

So that's the other definition for pantomime... I just think of Christmas plays for pantomimes, but anyone who isn't British gets confused by this, so I assumed there was another definition.

Looking up the definition of 'Pantomime' I came across this......... "A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music............." sounds just like the old movies before talkies.

Ah, of course! I remember "pantomimus" coming up in Latin passages.

Yeah, i wasn't too sure about that clue, being a Brit I just think of Pantomime's as the cheesy plays at Christmas time.

That's one I missed that I should have gotten. I used to love watching Red Skelton when I was a kid, especially his Freddie the Freeloader pantomimes.

Any chance you could add "jam" into the jelly clue for clueless Brits? I know all about pectin but was trying to think of a synonym for gelatine as you don't need pectin for what I think of as jelly (the dessert you have at kids' parties).

I tried petroleum for jelly... D'oh!

Please accept 'polygamous' for polygamist

Totally agree. Good to have a tougher than usual level quiz. Thanks QM

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