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Permitting
- verb -
- Allowed
- consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"
Perorating
- verb - conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation
- deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
Peroration
- noun - (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
- a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
Persist In
- verb - carry forward; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"
- do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move"
Persistent
- adjective - continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy
- never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
- retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
- stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
Persisting
- verb - be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"
- continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"
- relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit; "impossible to escape the dogging fears"
- stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up"
Perverting
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
Pet Sitter
- noun - someone left in charge of pets while their owners are away from home