Ielts vocabulary Masterclass book + ielts listening & Reading Dictionary: Dominate Proficiency Level Vocabulary for ielts listening, Reading, Writing & Speaking

Pedestrian:
MEANING: Ordinary; dull
SENTENCE: Vocabulary class without example sentences looks to be
pedestrian for many students.
Penchant
: MEANING: Liking, preference or strong inclination
SENTENCE: He had a strong penchant for sculpture and owned so many
statues.
Perfidious
: MEANING: Untrustworthy and deceitful
SENTENCE: The lawyer decided not to represent his perfidious client.
Perfunctory:
MEANING: Done routinely and with little interest or care
SENTENCE: Her boyfriend gave her a perfunctory kiss on his way out the
door.
Peripheral:
MEANING: Not of primary importance
SENTENCE: My main goal is to get into a good graduate school; whether
it has good fitness facilities is really a peripheral concern.
Permeable:
MEANING: Allowing liquids or gases to pass through
SENTENCE: A frog's skin is permeable to water.
Perspicacious:
MEANING: Shrewd, wise, discerning
SENTENCE: For a five-year-old kid, Toby was very perspicacious.
Penury:
MEANING: Extreme poverty
SENTENCE: A job loss and family breakdown can lead to penury.

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Perennial:
MEANING: Lasting for an infinite time; enduring or
continually recurring
SENTENCE: His parents had a perennial distrust of the media.
Pervasive:
MEANING: Spreading or spread throughout, everywhere
SENTENCE: Talking about the weather is pervasive among adults.
Phlegmatic:
MEANING: Having an unemotional and stolidly calm
disposition.
SENTENCE: The British character can be phlegmatic compared with the
emotional Spanish.
Phony:
MEANING: Fake; insincere
SENTENCE: She's such a phony person, pretending to befriend people and
then talking about them behind their backs.