This prescient pundit promulgated once a prognostication pure-
"A pernicious penguin would," she presaged, "Prudently escape the zoo,
And practice such profligacy that he would purchase Persia too!
(He will be quite venal and unfortunately a parvenu)."
Scarcely had she prophesied then did a penguin perambulate by,
Truly worthy of plaudits, yet not quite propitious, for the prophecy was no lie.
-------1. paean (n) - a song of praise
2. panegyric (n) - speech expressing high praise
3. punctilious (adj) - nice or precise in conduct
4. prescient (adj) - having foreknowledge of events
5. pundit (n) - a learned person / an authority or critic
6. promulgate (v) - to make known by public declaration
7. presage (v) - give warning of, predict
8. prudent (adj) - shrewd / cautious / thrifty
9. profligacy (n) - wastefulness, extravagantly so
10. venal (adj) - capable of being corrupted esp by money
11. parvenu (n) - a person of humble origins who has gained wealth and position and risen in society, especially one considered unfit for the position: an upstart
12. plaudits (n) - expressions of praise
13. propitious (adj) - favorably disposed, being a good omen, tending to favor
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