LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: P Soup
- Panache (from French, plume, verve) is a flamboyant manner, verve, style, or flair. The dashing onomatomaniac breezed through the word quiz with great panache.
- A pugilist (from Latin pugil, boxer, akin to pugnus fist) is a fighter or boxer. Pugnacious, a related term, means inclined to fight.
- Platonic (from Plato, who described but did not name it) is pure, non-physical love. A character in the play Pamela said, “I am convinced, and always was, that Platonic love is Platonic nonsense.”
- A petrel is a tube-nosed sea bird. The name is of uncertain origin, but may be related to the story of St. Peter walking on water, because the bird flies so near the surface it may appear be walking.
- Pentatonic (from Greek penta, five, and tone) means having only five tones, as with certain music scales. Our standard (diatonic) scales have seven tones—the first repeated at the end, as in the Do, Re, Mi…Do scale of Guido.
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