Parlez en anglais . . . Je ne parle pas français "Speak English . . . I don't speak French."
perchè (Italian) "why" or "because."
pernicious causing great injury, destruction, or ruin.
Piltdown Man One of the great hoaxes of the twentieth century, the Piltdown man supposedly was an early species of modern man postulated from bones found near Piltdown (Sussex, England) around 1911 but exposed as a forgery in 1953.
prolix so wordy as to be tiresome; verbose.
pugnacious eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative.
PX Post Exchange; a store or stores on military bases offering merchandise at reduced prices for service personnel.
Q.E.D. abbreviation for the Latin quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "which was to be demonstrated or proven," a phrase used in mathematics.
Raskolnikov Clevinger compares Yossarian to the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevski's novel Crime and Punishment (1866), who maintains, at least for a time, that the end justifies the means.
recant to withdraw or renounce beliefs or statements formerly held.
requisition a formal written order, request, or application for equipment.
reticent habitually silent or uncommunicative.
ruefully regretfully; feeling or showing remorse.
