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Postulant
- noun - one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order
Postulate
- noun - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"
- require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
- take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature"
- To put forward a concept or suggestion or solution to a problem
Posturers
- noun - someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others
Posturing
- verb - adopting a vain conceited posture
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
Pot Metal
- noun - an alloy of copper and lead used especially for making large pots
- cast iron used for making cooking wares
Pot Plant
- noun - a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors)
Pot Roast
- noun - cut of beef suitable for simmering in liquid in a closed pot
Potassium
- noun - Potassium(K) - a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite