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Peculating
- verb - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
Peculation
- noun - the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Pejorative
- adjective - expressing disapproval; "dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'"
Per Capita
- adjective - per person; "among the states Connecticut has a high per capita income"
- per person; "we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district"
Permeating
- verb - pass through; "Water permeates sand easily"
- penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot"
- spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
- spreading or spread throughout;
Permeation
- noun - mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other
- the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
Permeative
- adjective - spreading or spread throughout;
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