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P – Q: SAT Words
persistent (poer SIST int) n. 1. refusing to give up; unrelenting; stubborn; 179
2. lasting without change; 3. constantly repeated
• The usher was persistent in asking the noisy couple to leave the theater.
• Yosemite Park’s El Capitan has been persistent in resisting the ravages of
wind and rain.
• Rote learning is the result of persistent repetition of the same information
rather than understanding.
[-ly adv.]
persnickety (poer SNIK i tee) adj. 1. too fussy; too particular or precise; fastidious;
2. showing or needing very careful treatment
• Hazel was very persnickety about how her bedding was folded in the linen
closet.
• The persnickety Nurse Cratchett obsessed about the dressings on her home
care patients.

QUICK REVIEW #63
Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.
1. performance a. preserve
2. perfunctory b. fastidious
3. periphery c. accomplishment

4. perishable d. constancy
5. permanence e. persist
6. permeate f. superficial
7. perpetrator g. infest
8. perpetuate h. stubborn
9. perplex i. outskirts
10. persevere j. doer
11. persistent k. puzzle
12. persnickety l. spoilable

perspective* (poer SPEK tiv) n. 1. the artistic picturing of things so as to repre-
sent a three-dimensional portrait using two-dimensional drawings by use of lines
that converge at a vanishing point; 2. the effect of relative distances on how objects
appear; 3. the relationships and proportions of parts to each other and to the
whole; 4. a point of view in judging things or events
• The artist’s perspective makes things disappear in the distance, giving the
viewer the feeling of three dimensions.
• Perspective makes nearer objects appear larger than distant ones.
• To avoid blowing things out of proportion, we must view them in the
perspective of how they relate to the whole.