| Sr No. | Word | hindi | Meaning | Example |
| 2637 | posterity | भावी पीढ़ी | descendants; future generations | We hope to leave a better world
to posterity. |
| 2638 | posthumous | मरणोत्तर | after death (as of child born
after father's death or book published after author's death) | The critics ignored his works
during his lifetime; it was only after the posthumous publication of his last
novel that they recognized his great talent. |
| 2639 | postulate | मांगना | self-evident truth | We must accept these statements
as postulates before pursuing our discussions any further.
|
| 2640 | posture | आसन | assume an affected pose; act
artificially | No matter how much Arnold
boasted or postured, I could not believe he was as important as he pretended
to be. |
| 2641 | potable | पीने योग्य | suitable for drinking | The recent drought in the Middle
Atlantic States has emphasized the need for extensive research in ways of
making sea water potable. |
| 2642 | potent | प्रबल | powerful; persuasive; greatly
influential | The jury was swayed by the
highly potent testimony of the crime's sole eyewitness. |
| 2643 | potentate | महाराजा | monarch; sovereign | The potentate spent more time at
Monte Carlo than he did at home on his throne. |
| 2644 | potential | क्षमता | expressing possibility; latent | The juvenile delinquent is a
potential murderer. |
| 2645 | potion | औषधि | dose (of liquid) | Tristan and Lsolde drink a love
potion in the first act of the opera. |
| 2646 | potpourri | शुष्क अतर | heterogeneous mixture; medley | He offered a potpourri of folk
songs from many lands. |
| 2647 | poultice | प्रलेप | soothing application applied to
sore and inflamed portions of the body | He was advised to apply a
flaxseed poultice to the inflammation. |
| 2648 | practicable | साध्य | feasible | The board of directors decided
that the plan was practicable and agreed to undertake the project. |
| 2649 | practical | व्यावहारिक | based on experience; useful | He was a practical man, opposed
to theory |
| 2650 | pragmatic | व्यावहारिक | practical (as opposed to
idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or impact of something | This coming trip to France
should provide me with a pragmatic test of the value of my conversational
French class. |
| 2651 | pragmatist | दंभी | practical person | No pragmatist enjoys becoming
involved in a game that he can never win |
| 2652 | prate | खोलना | speak foolishly; boast idly | Let us not prate about our
qualities; rather, let our virtues speak for themselves. |
| 2653 | prattle | चहकना | babble | The children prattle endlessly
about their new toys. |
| 2654 | preamble | प्रस्तावना | introductory statement | In the preamble to the
Constitution, the purpose of the document is set forth. |
| 2655 | precarious | अनिश्चित | uncertain; risky | I think this stock is a
precarious investment and advise against its purchase. |
| 2656 | precedent | मिसाल | something preceding in time that
may be used as an authority or guide for future action | This decision sets a precedent
for future cases of a similar nature. |
| 2657 | precedent | मिसाल | preceding in time, rank, etc. | Our discussions, precedent to
this event, certainly did not give you any reason to believe that we would
adopt your proposal. |
| 2658 | precept | नियम | practical rule guiding conduct | Love thy neighbor as thyself is
a worthwhile precept. |
| 2659 | precipice | करारा | cliff; dangerous position | Suddenly Indiana Jones found
himself dangling from the edge of a precipice. |
| 2660 | precipitate | वेग | headlong; rash | Do not be precipitate in this
matter; investigate further. |
| 2661 | precipitate | वेग | throw headlong; hasten | The removal of American
political support appeared to have precipitated the downfall of the Marcos
regime. |
| 2662 | precipitous | तेज़ | steep; overhasty | This hill is difficult to climb
because it is so precipitous; one slip, and our descent will be precipitous
as well. |
| 2663 | precise | ठीक | exact | If you don't give me precise
directions and a map, I'll never find your place. |
| 2664 | preclude | रोकना | make impossible; eliminate | This contract does not preclude
my being employed by others at the same time that I am working for you. |
| 2665 | precocious | असामयिक | advanced in development | By her rather adult manner of
discussing serious topics, the child demonstrated that she was precocious. |
| 2666 | precursor | अग्रगामी | forerunner | Though Gray and Burns share many
traits with the Romantic poets who followed them, most critics consider them
precursors of the Romantic Movement, not true Romantics. |
| 2667 | predatory | हिंसक | plundering | The hawk is a predatory bird. |
| 2668 | predecessor | पूर्वज | former occupant of a post | I hope I can live up to the fine
example set by my late predecessor in this office. |
| 2669 | predilection | लाग-लपेट | partiality; preference | Although the artist used various
media from time to time, she had a predilection for watercolors. |
| 2670 | preeminent | पूर्वप्रतिष्ठित | outstanding; superior | The king traveled to Boston
because he wanted the preeminent surgeon in the field to perform the
operation. |
| 2671 | preempt | जगह ले लेना | head off; forestall by acting
first; appropriate for oneself; supplant | Hoping to preempt any attempts
by the opposition to make educational reform a hot political issue, the
candidate set out her own plan to revitalize the public schools. |
| 2672 | preen | आत्मसंतुष्ट होना | make oneself tidy in appearance;
feel self-satisfaction | As Kitty preened before the
mirror, carefully smoothing her shining hair, she couldn't help preening
herself on her good looks. |
| 2673 | prefactory | prefactory | introductory | The chairman made a few
prefactory remarks before he called on the first speaker. |
| 2674 | prehensile | समझदार | capable of grasping or holding | Monkeys use not only their arms
and legs but also their prehensile tails in traveling through the trees. |
| 2675 | prelate | धर्माध्यक्ष | church dignitary | The archbishop of Moscow and
other high-ranking prelates visited the Russian Orthodox seminary. |
| 2676 | prelude | प्रस्तावना | introduction; forerunner | I am afraid that this border
raid is the prelude to more serious attacks. |
| 2677 | premeditate | पहिले से ठानना | plan in advance | She had premeditated the murder
for months, reading about common poisons and buying weed killer that
contained arsenic. |
| 2678 | premise | आधार | assumption; postulate | Because Jack had based his
argument upon a faulty premise, his opponent cheerfully pointed out the holes
in his logic. |
| 2679 | premonition | चेतावनी | forewarning | We ignored these premonitions of
disaster because they appeared to be based on childish fears. |
| 2680 | premonitory | पूर्वबोधक | serving to warn | You should have visited a doctor
as soon as you felt these premonitory chest pains. |
| 2681 | preponderance | प्रधानता | superiority of power, quantity,
etc. | The rebels sought to overcome
the preponderance of strength of the government forces by engaging in
guerrilla tactics. |
| 2682 | preposterous | निरर्थक | absurd; ridiculous | When the candidate tried to
downplay his youthful experiments with marijuana by saying he hadn't inhaled,
we all thought, "What a preposterous excuse!" |
| 2683 | prerogative | विशेषाधिकार | privilege; unquestionable right | The President cannot levy taxes;
that is the prerogative of the legislative branch of government. |
| 2684 | presage | सगुन | foretell | The vultures flying overhead
presaged the discovery of the corpse in the desert. |
| 2685 | prescience | पूर्वज्ञान | ability to foretell the future | Given the current wave of
Japan-bashing, it does not take prescience for me to foresee problems in our
future trade relations with Japan. |
| 2686 | presentiment | पूर्वाभाव | premonition; foreboding | Hamlet felt a presentiment about
his meeting with Laertes. |
| 2687 | prestige | प्रतिष्ठा | impression produced by
achievements or reputation | The wealthy man sought to obtain
social prestige by contributing to popular charities. |
| 2688 | presumptous | presumptous | arrogant; taking liberties | It seems presumptous for one so
relatively new to the field to challenge the conclusions of its leading
experts. |
| 2689 | pretentious | कपटी | ostentatious; ambitious | I do not feel that your limited
resources will permit you to carry out such a pretentious program. |
| 2690 | preternatural | अलौकिक | beyond that which is normal in
nature | John's mother's total ability to
tell when he was lying struck him as almost preternatural. |
| 2691 | pretext | बहाने | excuse | He looked for a good pretext to
get out of paying a visit to his aunt. |
| 2692 | prevail | प्रबल | induce; triumph over | He tried to prevail on her to
type his essays for him. |
| 2693 | prevalent | प्रचलित | widespread; generally accepted | A radical committed to social
change, Reed had no patience with the conservative views prevalent in the
America of his day. |
| 2694 | prevaricate | छलकपट | lie | Some people believe that to
prevaricate in a good cause is justifiable and regard the statement as a
"white lie." |
| 2695 | prey | शिकार | target of a hunt; victim | In Stalking the Wild Asparagus,
Euell Gibbons has as his prey not wild beasts but wild plants. |
| 2696 | prim | रस्मी | very precise and formal;
exceedingly proper | Many people commented on the
contrast between the prim attire of the young lady and the inappropriate
clothing worn by her escort. |
| 2697 | primogeniture | ज्येष्ठाधिकार | seniority by birth | By virtue of primogeniture, in
some cultures the first-born child has many privileges denied his brothers
and sisters. |
| 2698 | primordial | मौलिक | existing at the beginning (of
time); rudimentary | The Neanderthal Man is one of
our primordial ancestors. |
| 2699 | primp | सुजाना | dress or groom oneself with care | She primps for hours before a
dance. |
| 2700 | pristine | प्राचीन | characteristic of earlier times;
primitive, unspoiled | This area has been preserved in
all its pristine wildness. |
| 2701 | privation | वंचना | hardship; want | In his youth, he knew hunger and
privation. |
| 2702 | privy | गुप्त | secret; hidden; not public | We do not care for privy chamber
of government. |
| 2703 | probe | जांच | explore with tools | The surgeon probed the wound for
foreign matter before suturing it. |
| 2704 | probity | ईमानदारी | uprightness; incorruptibility | Everyone took his probity for
granted; his defalcations, therefore, shocked us all. |
| 2705 | problematic | समस्यात्मक | perplexing; unsettled:
questionable | Given the many areas of conflict
still awaiting resolution, the outcome of the peace talks remains
problematic. |
| 2706 | proclivity | झुकाव | inclination; natural tendency | The cross old lady has a
proclivity to grumble. |
| 2707 | procrastinate | procrastinate | postpone; delay | It is wise not to procrastinate;
otherwise, we find ourselves bogged down in a mass of work that should have
been finished long ago. |
| 2708 | procurement | खरीद | obtaining | The personnel department handles
the procurement of new employees. |
| 2709 | prod | ठेस | poke; stir up; urge | If you prod him hard enough,
he'll eventually clean his room. |
| 2710 | prodigal | उड़ाऊ | wasteful; reckless with money | The prodigal son squandered his
inheritance. |
| 2711 | prodigious | अस्वाभाविक | enormous; marvelous | He marveled at her prodigious
appetite when he saw all the food she ate. |
| 2712 | prodigy | कौतुक | highly gifted child; marvel | Menuhin was a prodigy,
performing wonders on his violin when he was barely eight years old. |
| 2713 | profane | अपवित्र | violate; desecrate | Tourists are urged not to
profane the sanctity of holy places by wearing improper garb. |
| 2714 | profilgate | profilgate | dissipated; wasteful; licentious | In this profilgate company, she
lost all sense of decency. |
| 2715 | profound | गहन | deep; not superficial; complete | Freud's remarkable insights into
human behavior caused his fellow scientists to honor him as a profound
thinker. |
| 2716 | profusion | प्रचुरता | lavish expenditure; overabundant
condition | Seldom have I seen food and
drink served in such profusion as at the wedding feast. |
| 2717 | progenitor | पूर्वपुस्र्ष | ancestor | The Roth family, whose
progenitors emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth century, settled
in Peru, Illinois. |
| 2718 | progeny | संतान | children; offspring | He was proud of his progeny but
regarded George as the most promising of all his children. |
| 2719 | prognosis | रोग का निदान | forecasted course of a disease;
prediction | If the doctor's prognosis is
correct, the patient will be in a coma for at least twenty-four hours. |
| 2720 | prognosticate | भविष्य बतलाना | predict | I prognosticate disaster unless
we change our wasteful ways. |
| 2721 | prohibitive | निषेधात्मक | extremely high (of prices etc.) | The super computer's price was
prohibitive. |
| 2722 | projectile | प्रक्षेप्य | missile | Man has always hurled
projectiles at his enemy whether in the form of stones or of highly explosive
shells. |
| 2723 | proletarian | सर्वहारा | member of the working class | The aristocrats feared mob rule
and gave the right to vote only to the wealthy, thus depending the
proletarians of a voice in government. |
| 2724 | proliferate | पैदा करना | grow rapidly; spread; multiply | Times of economic hardship
inevitably encourage countless get-rich-quick schemes to proliferate |
| 2725 | prolific | उर्वर | abundantly fruitful | She was a prolific writer who
produced as many as three books a year. |
| 2726 | prolix | प्रपंची | verbose; drawn out | Her prolix arguments irritated
and bored the jury. |
| 2727 | prolong | बढ़ाना | extend; draw out; lengthen | In their determination to
discover ways to prolong human life, doctors fail to take into account that
longer lives are not always happier ones. |
| 2728 | prominent | प्रसिद्ध | conspicuous; notable; protruding | Have you ever noticed that
Prince Charles's prominent ears make him resemble the big-eared character in
Mad comics? |
| 2729 | promiscuous | अनेक | mixed indiscriminately;
haphazard; irregular, particularly sexually | In the opera La Boheme, we get a
picture of the promiscuous life led by the young artists of Paris. |
| 2730 | promontory | रास | headland | They erected a lighthouse on the
promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore. |
| 2731 | prompt | शीघ्र | cause; provoke; provide a cue
for an actor | Whatever prompted you to ask for
such a big piece of cake when you're on a diet? |
| 2732 | promulgate | प्रकाशित करना | make known by official
proclamation or publication | As soon as the Civil Service
Commission promulgates the names of the successful candidates, we shall begin
to hire members of our staff. |
| 2733 | prone | प्रवृत्त | inclined to; prostrate | She was prone to sudden fits of
anger. |
| 2734 | propagate | प्रचार | multiply; spread | Since bacteria propagate more
quickly in unsanitary environments, it is important to keep hospital rooms
clean. |
