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periphrasis, n. 1. circumlocution, pleonasm, tautology, redundancy, Inf. circumbendibus; verbiage, verbosity, wordiness, prolixity, profuseness, diffuseness, long-windedness, longiloquence; repetition, repetitiveness, tediousness, battology; digressiveness, discursiveness, maundering, convolution, circuitousness, wandering, rambling, meandering, roundaboutness, indirection, Archaic, ambages; ambiguousness, vagueness, beating around the bush; newspeak, bu-reaucratese, gobbledegook.
2. digression, excursus, cloud or smokescreen of words, Rare, tautologism.

periphrastic, adj. circumlocutory, pleonastic, tautological, redundant; verbose, wordy, prolix, profuse, diffuse, long-winded, longiloquent; repetitive, tedious, battological; digressive, discursive, excursive, circuitous, roundabout, ambagious, indirect, maundering, wandering, rambling; ambiguous, vague, obscure.

perish, v. 1. lose one's life, be killed, Inf. be wiped out, lay down one's life; die, expire, decease, meet death, SI. bite the dust, SI. kick the bucket, SI. kick it; give up the ghost, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, SI. croak; pass away, pass on, be no more, go the way of all flesh, SI. cash in, SI. cash in one's chips, be numbered with the dead, Euph. go west.
2. end, come to an end, come to nothing, die away; degenerate, fall off, Chiefly Biol, retrograde, deteriorate, go to pot, break down; molder, crumble, fall to pieces, disintegrate, wear away, corrode; decay, wither, shrivel, sear, go to seed, go bad, go to waste, rot; decline, fail, atrophy, waste away, ebb, wane, fade away; melt away, dissolve.
3. vanish, disappear, be gone, be heard of no more, leave no trace, be lost to view; be destroyed, be ruined, be burned up, be demolished, be eradicated.

perishable, adj. destructible, decayable, decomposable, biodegradable; undurable, fragile, frail, weak, delicate; impermanent, transitory, caducous, fugacious, transient, temporary, temporal; momentary, short-lived, ephemeral, evanescent, volatile, passing, fleeting, fading, flitting; mortal, corruptible, unendurable, nonpermanent; mutable, changeable, changeful, alterable, variable, permutable, inconstant; unstable, unfixed, unsteady, unsettled.

peristyle, Architecture. 1. colonnade, columnia-tion, pilaster, row or file of columns or pillars; columns, pillars, pillarets, posts, piers, poles, shafts, uprights, verticles, supports.
2. courtyard, court, quadrangle, Inf. quad, Archit. cloister; square, plaza, yard, mall, park, open space; patio, portico, porch, veranda, gallery, arcade, Chiefly Brit, piazza.

periwig, n. peruke, powdered wig, Georgian wig, wig; toupee, hairpiece, scratch, scratch wig, SI. rug.

perjure, v. lie under oath, give false testimony, bear false witness, forswear; lie, tell a lie or falsehood, be untruthful, prevaricate, fib.

perjurer, n. forswearer, false witness; liar, prevaricator, falsifier, fibber.

perjury, n. Law. (all under oath) lying, giving false testimony, bearing false witness, forswearing; telling a lie or falsehood, falsehood, mendacity, prevarication; falsification, misstatement, untruthfulness, dishonesty-

perk¹, v. 1. be jaunty, be lively, Chiefly U.S. Inf. be chipper, act alive, Inf. be peppy or full of pep.
2. Usu.

perk up cheer up, liven up, Inf. pep up, show signs of life, brighten up; take heart or courage, Inf. buck up, U.S. Inf chirk; recover, Inf. snap out of it, Inf. come around, recuperate, regain strength, get back on one's feet; rally, Inf. come back, Inf. make a comeback.