Author: Oleg Smirnov, Posted on Monday, November 29 @ 11:47:25 IST by RxPG  

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paean  - song of praise or triumph
palate  - roof of the mouth sense of taste
palatial  - magnificent
palliate  - lessen the severity of
palpability  - can be felt touched understood
palpitate  - tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
panegyric  - formal praise eulogy

paradigm  - a model example or pattern
parenthesis  - sentence within another one something separated
pariah  - an outcast a rejected and despised person
parsimonious  - too economical miserly
partisan  - one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
patron  - regular customer person who gives support
paucity  - scarcity a lacking of
peccadillo  - small sin small weakness in one's character
pedantic  - bookish showing off learning
pedestrian  - commonplace trite unremarkable
pellucid  - transparent easy to understand
penchant  - strong inclination a liking
penitent  - feeling or showing regret
penurious  - poor/stingy
penury  - extreme poverty
peregrination  - travelling about wandering
peremptory  - urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
perfidious  - treacherous faithless
perfidy  - treachery breaking of faith
perfunctory  - done as a duty without care
perilous  - dangerous
peripatetic  - wandering
perish  - be destroyed decay
perjury  - wilful FALSE statement unlawful act
permeate  - spread into every part of
pernicious  - harmful injurious
perpetrate  - be guilty commit (a crime)
personable  - pleasing in appearance attractive
perspicacity  - quick judging and understanding
pertain  - belong as a part have reference
pest  - destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
petrified  - taken away power (to think feel act)
petrify  - to make hard rocklike
petrous  - like a rock hard stony
petulant  - unreasonably impatient
philistine  - a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
phlegmatic  - calm sluggish temperament unemotional
picaresque  - involving clever rogues or adventurers
pied  - of mixed colours
pinch  - be too tight take between the thumb and finger
pine  - waste away through sorrow or illness
pious  - dutiful to parents devoted to religion
piquant  - agreeably pungent stimulating
pique  - hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
pitfall  - covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
pith  - essential part force soft liquid substance
pivotal  - of great importance (others depend on it)
placate  - soothe pacify calm
plaintive  - mournful melancholy sorrowful
plaque  - flat metal on a wall as a memorial
platitude  - a trite or banal statement unoriginality
plea  - request
plead  - address a court of law as an advocate
plethora  - glut
pliant  - pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
plod  - continue doing something without resting
pluck  - pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
plumb  - get to the root of
plummet  - fall plunge steeply
plunge  - move quickly suddenly and with force
poignant  - deeply moving keen
poncho  - large piece of cloth
ponderous  - heavy bulky dull
portent  - omen marvellous threatening
precarious  - uncertain risky dangerous
precepts  - rules establishing standards of conduct
preclude  - prevent make impossible
precursory  - preliminary anticipating
predilection  - special liking mental preference
predominate  - have more power than others
preen  - tidy/show self-satisfaction
premature  - doing or happening something before the right time
preponderance  - greatness in number strength weight
presage  - warning sign
presumption  - arrogance
preternatural  - not normal or usual
prevalent  - common
prevaricate  - to equivocate to stray from the truth
prim  - neat formal
pristine
probity  - uprightness incorruptibility principle
proclivity  - inclination
procrastination  - keeping on putting off
prodigal  - wasteful reckless with money
prodigious  - enormous wonderful
profane  - worldly having contempt for God
profligacy  - shameless immorality
profligate  - wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
profundity  - depth
profuse  - abundant/lavish
proliferate  - grow reproduce by rapid multification
prolix  - tiring because too long
prone  - prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
propagation  - increasing the number spreading extending
propinquity  - nearness in time or place affinity of nature
propitiatory  - conciliatory appeasing mitigating
propitious  - auspicious presenting favourable circumstances
prosaic  - everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
proscribe  - denounce as dangerous
protracted  - prolonged
provident  - frugal looking to the future
provisional  - of the present time only
provoke  - make angry vax
prudence  - careful forethought
prudish  - easily shocked excessively modest
prune  - dried plum silly person
pry  - get something inquire too curiously
pucker  - wrinkle
pugnacious  - fond of in the habit of fighting
puissance  - strength
punctilious  - precise paying attention to trivialities
pundit  - pedant authority on a subject
pungency  - sharpness stinging quality
purvey  - provide supply
pusillanimous  - cowardly craven
putrefaction  - becoming rotten
pyre  - large pile of wood for burning
quack  - person dishonestly claiming to something
quaff  - drink deeply
quail  - lose courage turn frightened
qualm  - feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
quandary  - state of doubt or perplexity
quell  - suppress subdue
quibble  - try to avoid by sophistication
quiescence  - state of being passive/motionless
quiescent  - at rest dormant torpid
quirk  - habit or action peculiar to somebody or something
quixotic  - generous unselfish
quotidian  - banal everyday
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