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| palatial | magnificent | |
| palinode | a retraction | |
| pall | to make dull by satiety | |
| palliate | to cause to appear less guilty | |
| pallid | abnormally pale (as of skin) | |
| panoply | splendid, wide-ranging, impressive display or array | |
| pantomime | sign-language | |
| paragon | a model of excellence | |
| paramour | one who is unlawfully a lover or mistress | |
| pare | to cut, shave, or remove the outside of anything | |
| pariah | a member of a degraded class; a social outcast | |
| parity | equality, as of condition or rank | |
| parlance | mode of speech (e.g. military, legal, or religious parlance) | (revised) |
| parley | to converse in | |
| paroxysm | a sudden outburst of any kind of activity | |
| parricide | the murder of a parent | |
| parsimonious | unduly sparing in the use of money | |
| passible | capable of feeling or suffering | |
| pathos | the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion | |
| patrician | of senatorial or noble rank | |
| patrimony | an inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father | |
| patronymic | formed after one's father's name | |
| patter | to mumble something over and over | |
| paucity | fewness, scarcity | |
| peccable | capable of sinning | |
| peccadillo | a small breach of propriety or principle | |
| peccant | guilty | |
| pecuniary | consisting of money | |
| pedagogics | the science and art of teaching | |
| pedant | a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning (pedantic) | |
| peerage | the nobility | |
| peevish | petulant (irritable) | |
| pellucid | translucent | |
| penchant | a strong inclination/bias in favor of something (ex: they argue that mankind's prehistoric penchant for mammoth may have had a discernible effect on climate) | |
| pendulous | hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part | |
| pennant | a small flag | |
| pentad | the number five | |
| penurious | excessively sparing in the use of money | |
| penury | indigence | |
| perambulate | to walk about | |
| percolate | to filter | |
| peremptory | precluding question or appeal | |
| perfidy | treachery | |
| perforate | to make a hole(s) through | |
| perfunctory | half-hearted, going through the motions | |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of the moon when it is closest to the earth | |
| perjury | the solemn assertion of a falsity | |
| pernicious | tending to kill or hurt | |
| perquisite | any profit from services beyond the amount fixed as a wage | |
| persiflage | banter | |
| perspicacious | having keen perception and understanding; astute (perspicuous: lucid) | |
| perspicacity | acuteness or discernment | |
| pertinacious | persistent or unyielding (pertinacity: unyielding adherence) | |
| perusal | the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully | |
| pervious | admitting the entrance or passage of another substance | |
| petulant | displaying impatience | |
| phlegmatic | not easily roused to feeling or action, apathetic, sluggish | |
| phosphorescence | the property of emitting light | |
| physiocracy | the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth | |
| picayune | of small value | |
| piecemeal | gradually | |
| pittance | any small portion or meager allowance | |
| placate | to bring from a state of hostility to patience | |
| placid | serene | |
| platitude | a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace | |
| plebeian | of common people | |
| plenary | entire | |
| plutocracy | a wealthy class who control the government by their wealth | |
| poesy | poetry | |
| polyglot | speaking several languages | |
| pontiff | the Pope | |
| portend | to indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs | |
| portent | anything that indicates what is to happen | |
| prate | to talk about vainly or foolishly | |
| prattle | to utter simple or childish talk | |
| precipice | a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff | |
| precipitate | to force forward prematurely | |
| precipitant | moving onward quickly and heedlessly | |
| precocious | having the mental faculties prematurely developed | |
| prehensile | adapted for grasping or holding | |
| premonition | foreboding | |
| preponderate | to exceed in influence or power | |
| preponderant | prevalent | |
| presage | to foretell | |
| prescience | knowledge of events before they take place | |
| prescient | foreknowing | |
| presentient | perceiving or feeling beforehand | |
| presentiment | foreboding | |
| presentment | semblence | |
| preternatural | extraordinary | |
| pretext | a fictitious reason or motive | |
| prevaricate | to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention | |
| priggish | conceited | |
| pristine | primitive; having original purity | |
| privity | knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter | |
| probity | virtue or integrity tested and confirmed | |
| prodigious | immense | |
| proffer | to offer to another for acceptance | |
| profligate | abandoned to vice | |
| proletarian | a person of the lowest or poorest class | |
| promenade | to walk for amusement or exercise | |
| promontory | a high point out over water | |
| propitious | kindly disposed | |
| prosaic | unimaginative | |
| proscribe | to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation | |
| prosody | the science of poetical forms | |
| protagonist | a leader in any enterprise or contest; the hero in a story | |
| protrude | to push out or thrust forth | |
| protuberant | bulging | |
| provincial | uncultured in thought and manner | |
| prudential | proceeding or marked by caution | |
| prurient | inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires | |
| puerile | childish | |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome | |
| puissant | possessing strength | |
| punctilious | strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom | |
| pungent | affecting the sense of smell | |
| purloin | to steal | |
| purveyor | one who supplies | |
| pusillanimous | without spirit or bravery | |
| pyre | a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body |
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