perquisites A benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one's job or position personified To represent a quality, concept, or thing as a person or human form perspicacious Having a ready insight into and understanding of things pervasive Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people. perverse Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable petulant Having or showing the attitude of people who become angry and annoyed when they do not get what they want philander To engage in love affairs frivolously or casually phlegmatic Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition physiological Relating to the normal functions of living organisms and their parts picaresque Relating to a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish, but appealing hero, typically of low social class, who lives by their wits in a corrupt society.