provident: a. [有遠見的] displaying foresight; providing carefully for future; preparing for emergencies | prurient: a. [好色的,渴望的] having or causing lustful thoughts and desires; having an eager desire for something |
puerile: a. [幼稚的,孩子氣的] childish; belonging to childhood; immature | pugilist: n. [拳擊家] one who fights with his fists, especially a professional prize fighter; boxer |
pugnacity: n. [好鬥的] combativeness; inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness | puissant: a. [有勢力的,影響力大的,強大的] powerful; mighty; strong; vigorous; forcible |
pulchritude: n. [美麗,標致] great physical beauty and appeal; attractive moral excellence; moral beauty | pulverize: v. [磨碎,粉碎] pound, crush, or grind to powder or dust |
punctilious: a. [謹小慎微的,一絲不苟的] marked by precise accordance with details | pundit: n. [博學者,梵文學家] authority on a subject; learned person; expert |
purloin: v. [偷竊] steal, often in violation of trust; put away; remove | purported: a. [傳說的,謠傳的] assumed to be such; supposed; rumored |
purveyor: n. [承辦商] one who supplies provisions, especially food; caterer | pusillanimous: a. [懦弱 ,優柔寡斷的] cowardly; lacking strength and firmness of mind |
quadruped: n. [四足動物] four-footed or quadruped animal, especially, four-footed mammal | quaff: v. [一飲而盡] drink with relish; swallow hurriedly or greedily |
quantitative: a. [量的,數量的,定量的,與數量有關的] expressed or expressible as a quantity; relating to the measurement of quantity | quay: n. [碼頭] dock; landing place; reinforced bank where ships are loaded or unloaded |
quiescent: a. [睡眠的,休息的,暫停活動的] at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive | quietude: n. [平靜,寧靜] tranquility; state of peace and quiet |
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