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QUICK REVIEW #62 P – Q: SAT Words 177

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

1. partisan a. intuition
2. passive b. submissive
3. paternal c. discern
4. pellagra d. treachery
5. penurious e. intuitive

6. perceive f. follower
7. perception g. fatherly
8. perceptive h. miserly
9. perfidy i. illness
performance (poer FAWR mins) n. 1. the act of doing something; accomplish-
ment; execution; fullfillment; 2. effectiveness of operation; 3. some deed or feat
done; 4. a presentation before an audience
• Jack Nicholson has won the Oscar for best performance by an actor on more
than one occasion.
• Running on clean oil improves the performance of your car’s engine.
• The boxer’s manager was pleased with his performance in his last fight.
• Lois and Barney attended last night’s performance of Cats.
perfunctory (poer FUHNK tir ee) adj. 1. done without care; done routinely;
superficial; 2. indifferent; lacking in concern
• The mechanic gave a perfunctory look at the car before telling its owner
that it needed a new muffler.
• When told that she’d need to update her medical insurance coverage,
Greta gave a perfunctory shrug.
[perfunctorily adv., perfunctoriness n.]
periphery (poer IF ir ee) n. 1. the edge; an outside boundary line; the perime-
ter; 2. an outside surface, especially of a spherical object; 3. the immediate sur-
rounding territory; outskirts
• The airport was just at the periphery of the pilot’s field of vision.
• One can usually tell if a basketball is properly inflated by squeezing its
periphery and giving it a bounce.
• The new mall is being built just at the periphery of the most heavily popu-
lated area.
[peripheral adj., peripherally adv.] [Syn. circumference]