Vocabulary List 28

Punctilious

Very exacting, meticulous, scrupulous.

Pungent

Biting, keen, acerbic, mordant.

Purge

Cleanse.

Pusillanimous

Cowardly, craven, feckless.

Putrid

Rotting.

Qualm

Scruple, misgiving, conscience, pang.

Quandary

Predicament, dilemma.

Quash

Suppress, quell, nullify, abrogate.

Quay

Pier.

Quell

Subdue, quash.

Querulous

Constantly complaining, quarrelsome, captious.

Quiescence

Quiet, tranquility, serenity.

Quintessence

The most perfect state of an essence.

Quixotic

Impractical, fanciful, chimerical.

Raconteur

Storyteller of anecdotes.