Putative: commonly accepted, reputed; The putative reason for placing the monument downtown is that nobody had wanted it uptown. Purported: rumored, claimed; The heiress is purported to have been kidnapped by adventurers and buried in a concrete vault beneath the busiest intersection in Times square. Prudent: careful, having foresight; Joe is a prudent money manager. He does not invest heavily in racehorses, and he puts only a small part of his savings in the office football pool. He is the epitome of Prudence. It was imprudent of us to pour gasoline all over the floor of our living room and then light a fire in the fireplace. Proximity: nearness; I can not stand being in the proximity of a nuclear explosion. The radiation leaves my hair a mess. Provisional: conditional, temporary, tentative; Loise has been accepted as a provisional member of the club. He would not become a permanent member until the other members had had a chance to see what he was really like. Provincial: narrow; The farmers were very provincial; they had no opinions about anything but the price of corn and no interest in anything except growing more of it. Provident: preparing for the future, frugal, providing for the future; We were provident with our limited food supplies. Knowing that the winter ahead would be long and cold. Protract: to prolong; The trial was so protracted that one of the jurors died of old age and another gave birth. BYE QUEENS!! BREAK A LEG <3