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Pacify
A
To calm someone down
2
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Painstaking
A
Extremely careful
3
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Palliate
A
To mitigate
4
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Palpable
A
Capable of being touched
5
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Paltry
A
Insignificant
6
Q
Panacea
A
Something that cures everything
7
Q
Paradigm
A
A model or example
8
Q
Paradox
A
An untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical
9
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Parochial
A
Narrow or confined in point of view
10
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Parody
A
A satirical imitation
11
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Parsimonious
A
Stingy
12
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Partisan
A
One who supports a particular person, cause or idea
13
Q
Patent
A
Obvious
14
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Paternal
A
Fatherlike
15
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Pathology
A
The science of diseases
16
Q
Patriarch
A
The male head of a family or tribe
17
Q
Patrician
A
A person of noble birth
18
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Patronize
A
To treat as an inferior
19
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Paucity
A
Scarcity
20
Q
Peccadillo
A
A minor offense
21
Q
Pedantic
A
Boringly scholarly or academic
22
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Pejorative
A
Negative
22
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Pedestrian
A
Banal
23
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Penchant
A
A strong taste or liking for something
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Penitent
Sorry
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Pensive
Thoughtful and sad
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Peremptory
Categorical
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Perennial
Happening again and again or year after year
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Perfidy
Treachery
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Perfunctory
Careless
30
Peripatetic
Traveling continually
31
Periphery
The outside edge of something
32
Perjury
Lying under oath
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Permeate
To spread or seep through
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Pernicious
Extremely evil
35
Perquisite
A privilege that goes along with a job
36
Pertinent
Relevant
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Perturb
To disturb greatly
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Peruse
To read carefully
39
Pervade
To spread throughout
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Petulant
Rude
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Philanthropy
Love of mankind, especially by doing good deeds
42
Philistine
A smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters
43
Pious
Hypocritical
44
Pivotal
Crucial
45
Placate
To pacify
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Plaintive
Expressing sadness or sorrow
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Platitude
A dull or trite remark
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Plebeian
Low-class
49
Plethora
An excess
50
Poignant
Painfully emotional
51
Polarize
To break up into opposing factions or groupings
52
Polemic
A powerful argument often made to attack or refute a controversial issue
53
Ponderous
So large as to be clumsy
54
Portent
A sign of something coming in the future
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Postulate
Something accepted as true without proof
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Pragmatic
Practical
57
Percedent
An earlier example or model of something
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Precept
A rule to live by
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Precipitate
To cause to happen abruptly
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Precipitous
Steep
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Preclude
To prevent something from ever happening
