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1. Appeased, P.To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify.The warm soup appeased the child’s hunger, and she fell contently asleep soon after.Spurned, P.To reject disdainfully or contemptuously.Spurned from civilization, the bandit wandered aimlessly around the barren land until his death.Vestige, P.A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something.Her memory wiped clean, the only thing the girl could trust were the vestige on her skin from various tattoo parlors and injuries.Succor, P.Relief.The nurse did anything to succor the patient from pain and anxiety.Imprecate, P.To invoke evil on: curse.The gypsies left the merciless town and swore the imprecation of years of bad crops and starvation. Precipitate, P.To hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly.Insurmountable, P.Impossible to surmount; insuperable: insurmountable difficulties.Detrimental, P.Obviously harmful.Jumping off a cliff is detrimental to your health and will more than likely end in your death.Detestation, P.Extreme hatred or dislike.The queen looked at her servants with detestation, and ordered them to work twice as hard with half the food just for her own amusement.Exordium, P.A beginning or introductory part, especially of a speech or treatise.Candor, P.Freedom from prejudice or malice.Dilatory, P.Tending to delay or procrastinate.Vocab is always hard to start on, so IB students find dilatory tactics to prevent starting on it right away. Impediment, P.Something that interferes with something, like the proper articulation of speech.The speech impediment caused the boy to stutter uncontrollably in the middle of his sentences and halted most of his communication skills.Sedulous P.Involving or accomplished with careful perseverance.The spider could rest now that her sedulous work was shown off in the intricate web in the safe basement corner.Indolence, P.Inclination to laziness.Some students drop onto indolence as soon as Summer hits and they will sleep for twelve to fifteen hours straight, get up to eat and hang out with friends, and go back to sleep.Profound, P.Having intellectual depth and insight.Debar, P.To exclude or shut out.The youngest brother was always debarred from his older sisters’ activities because they hung signs that read “Girls only”, and that obviously did not include him.Expedite, P.To execute promptly.Dissuade, P.To advise (a person) against something.The woman tried to dissuade her husband from drinking so much by using the argument that it was detrimental to his health and it would shut down his livers and kidneys. Remonstrate, P.To present and urge reasons in opposition.Unremitting, P.Never slackening.The prisoner struggled against the unremitting handcuffs for hours until he finally realized that he could not break them and quieted down.Malignant, P.Showing great malevolence.Sophisms, P.A plausible but fallacious argument.Profanity, P.The quality or state of being profane.Presentiment, P.A sense that something is about to occur.Debility, P.The state of being weak or feeble; infirmity.After losing most of her blood in the wreck, the girl was left debilitated, lying on the cold ground for hours and unable to call for help.<br />