English to English Dictionary

Percentage

A rate, number, or amount in each hundred.

Perceptive

Having or showing a sensitive and keen insight.

Perfidious

Deceitful and untrustworthy; deliberately disloyal.

Period

A particular length of time defined by certain features or events.

Periodic inspection

An official or scheduled examination of a facility, equipment, or system carried out at regular intervals to ensure safety and compliance.

Perish

To suffer death, typically in a violent, sudden, or untimely manner.

Pernicious

Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

Persecute

To subject someone to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race, political, or religious beliefs.

Perseverance

Persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.

Perseverative

Relating to or characterized by perseveration, the repetitive and uncontrollable continuation of a motor, verbal, or cognitive response past the point of relevance.

Persist

Continue in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

Persuade

To cause someone to do something through reasoning or argument.