permeate
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pledged Thursday to
"use all the tools at our disposal" to reduce high levels
of a toxic chemical that continues to permeate
the air outside an elementary school in Marietta, Ohio.
persecute
The latter has inexcusably taken himself off to
the opposition Tory camp where he will doubtless persecute
David Cameron with unhelpful advice
perfume
By 1886, McConnell had formed
the California Perfume Company, and within 20 years,
10,000 representatives were selling 117 products
in 600 styles.
perpetual
What can you do with a cranky old guy in perpetual mourning
for the placid life he no longer leads?
perspective
The emphasis on data gathered first hand, combined
with a cross cultural perspective brought to the analysis
of cultures past and present, makes this study a unique
and distinctly important social science.
singular
Even the singular form is now often modified with
the use of a first name-which older Poles
find disconcertingly chummy in the mouths of strangers.
homogeneous
In his landmark 1916 essay, the great cultural critic
grasped that we were not, and should not try to be,
a homogeneous nation with a single shared heritage,
as in the Old World.
slowdown
Many folks see silver linings to this slowdown.