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1 plummet v
plummet also plummet down [intransitive]
1 to suddenly and quickly decrease in value or amount [= plunge]
House prices have plummeted down.
Profits plummeted from £49 million to £11 million.

2 pragmatic adj
dealing with problems in a sensible, practical way instead of strictly following a set of ideas [↪ dogmatic]:
Williams took a more pragmatic approach to management problems.

3 precarious adj
1 a precarious situation or state is one which may very easily or quickly become worse:
Her health remained precarious, despite the treatment.
2 likely to fall, or likely to cause someone to fall:
a precarious mountain trail
—precariously adverb:
a cup of tea balanced precariously on her knee

4 precipitate

5 precursor

6 presumptuous adj
doing something that you have no right to do and that seems rude
Would it be presumptuous of me to ask why you are so miserable?

7 prevaricate v
to try to hide the truth by not answering questions directly:
'I'm not sure,' he prevaricated.

8 pristine adj
1 extremely fresh or clean:
a pristine white shirt

2 something that is pristine is in the same condition as when it was first made:
The car has been restored to pristine condition.

3 not spoiled or damaged in any way:
pristine African rainforest

9 probity n
complete honesty:
I have always found Bentner to be a model of probity in our dealings.

10 problematic
involving problems and difficult to deal with: