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Pablum

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n. Something that is trite; something simplistic.

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Paean

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n. A song of praise; an expression of triumph.

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Palatable

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adj. Easily understood; agreeable; pleasing to the taste or senses; acceptable.

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Pall

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v. To become boring; to become less interesting.

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Palpability

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adj. Being understandable; being able to be felt, touched, and recognized.

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Panacea

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n. A cure-all; a remedy for all diseases; a solution for all problems.

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Panegyric

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n. A eulogy; a formal praise or oration in honor of somebody else.

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Panjandrum

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n. A person who believes that he is important; a pretentious official.

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Panoply

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n. A magnificent array; a display; an ostentatious exhibition.

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Pantheism

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n. The worship of all gods.

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Parable

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n. A short simple story that teaches a moral.

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Paragon

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n. A model of perfection; something that is esteemed and honored.

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Pare

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v. To cut away the outer covering or layer; to remove the skin of; to trim using a knife.

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Parlance

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n. The style of language; a manner of speaking; an idiom.

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Parley

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n. A conference; a discussion; a meeting where two opposing sides discuss and/or argue.

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Parquet

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n. A floor made of wood strips that are laid out in a specific pattern.

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Parricide

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n. The act of killing one's father, mother, or similar close relative.

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Parsimony

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n. Stinginess; excessive frugality.

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Parvenu

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n. Somebody who has just become wealthy; a newly rich person.

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Pastiche

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n. A literary or musical composition imitating a previous artist, often with a satirical undertone.

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Patina

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n. A green crust substance that accumulates on old bronze and copper surfaces.

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Patois

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n. A local or provincial dialect.

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Peccadillo

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n. A small offense or fault; a minor sin; a minor weakness.

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Peccant

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adj. Sinful or unruly; guilty of violating a rule or violating a standard practice or common mode of conduct.

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Peckish

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adj. Ill tempered or irritable; easily annoyed.

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Peculate

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v. To embezzle monetary funds or another person's property.

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Pecuniary

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adj. Pertaining or related to money.

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Pedantic

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adj. Bookish; showing off learning; marked by an excessive ostentatious concern for book learning; absurdly learned.

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Pejorative

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adj. Negative in connotation; having a belittling effect.

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Pendulous

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adj. Hanging loosley; suspended; hanging and/or limp.

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Penology

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n. The study of prison management and criminal rehabilitation; the study of the punishment of crime.

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Penurious

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adj. Not willing to part with money; stingy; poor; destitute.

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Penury

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n. Extreme poverty; dearth; scarcity.

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Peregrination

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n. A trip; a travel; an excursion.

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Perfidious

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adj. Treacherous; having a faithless or disloyal disposition; tending to cheat, lie, and mislead.

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Perfunctory

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adj. Done routinely and as a duty; done with little care; superficial.

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Pernicious

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adj. Harmful; dangerous; deadly.

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Persiflage

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n. Good-natured talk; banter.

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Perspicacity

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n. Keen insight and understanding; quick in perception.

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Perspicuity

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n. Clearness of expression; freedom from ambiguity.

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Perspicuous

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adj. Plainly expressed; clear; easy to understand.

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Petrous

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adj. Like a rock; referring to the hardness of a stone or rock; rigid and solid.

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Phantasmagoria

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n. A collection of imaginary items; a shifting series of phantasms that increase or diminish in size, pass into each other, or dissolve.

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Pharisaical

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adj. Excessively pious; hypocritical.

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Pharisee

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n. A self-righteous person; somebody who is of a sect of the Jewish religion that rigidly adheres to the Laws of Moses.

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Philanderer

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n. A faithless lover; somebody who tends to flirt.

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Philatelist

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n. A person who studies and collects stamps.

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Phlegmatic

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adj. Calm; not easily disturbed; showing little emotion; having a calm temperament.

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Phoenix

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n. Somebody or something of excellent worth and stature; a supreme idol.

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Picaresque

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adj. Related to daring, enchanting, and marvelous tales of adventure; involving often humorous mishaps and observations of an otherwise common individual.

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Piebald

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adj. Of different colors; mottled; speckled.

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Pied

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adj. Multi-colored; having patches of different colors.

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Piquant

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adj. Agreeably pungent or spicy; provocative; sharp.

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Pique

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v. To affect with irritation; to wound the pride of; to excite curiosity.

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Piscatorial

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adj. Pertaining to fishing.

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Pith

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n. Essential part; the fundamental aspect; the core constituent.

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Placid

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adj. Peaceful; calm.

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Plait

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v. To braid or to interweave.

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Platitude

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n. A trite or banal statement; an object that is unoriginal.

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Plebeian

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adj. Common; trite; vulgar.

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Plebiscite

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n. A direct vote by the entire electorate.

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Plenary

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adj. Attended by all qualified members.

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Plenipotentiary

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adj. Having full power; characterized with absolute authority.

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Plight

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v. To pledge; to give one's honor; to commit to a future deed.

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Plucky

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adj. Exhibiting spirit and heart in the face of unfavorable odds.

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Plutocracy

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n. A society ruled by the wealthy.

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Poltroon

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n. A coward.

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Pontifical

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adj. Relating to a bishop or pope; pompous; pretentious.

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Poppycock

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n. Nonsense; blabber; balderdash; rubbish.

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Pore

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v. To study intently; to ponder; to scrutinize.

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Portend

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v. To foretell; to presage.

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Portent

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n. An omen of am impending important event.

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Poseur

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n. A person who pretends to be sophisticated; a person who makes a concerted effort to portray himself as elegant.

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Posit

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v. To postulate; to assume the existence of; to stipulate.

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Posse

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n. A group of men who are gathered at the request of a government official or gang-leader and whose goal it is to impose rules or to perform a specific task.

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Potable

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adj. Suitable for drinking; drinkable.

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Potentate

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n. A monarch; a sovereign; a ruler.

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Prate

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v. To talk idly; to jabber; to talk nonsensically; to boast.

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Precedent

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n. A person of stature of authority; something that came previously in time and which has become the standard or ideal.

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Precepts

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n. Rules; standards; accepted means of conduct.

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Precipitant

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adj. Something that is unduly sudden; rapidly or hastily forward; rash.

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Precursory

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adj. Preliminary.

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Preen

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v. To make oneself tidy; feel and show self-satisfaction or pride.

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Prefigure

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v. To foreshadow; to envision beforehand.

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Prehensile

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adj. Capable of grasping or holding; eager; able to perceive.

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Prepossessing

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adj. Attractive; something that is engaging.

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Presage

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n. A sign of something that is about to happen; an omen; a foreboding about a future event.

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Prescience

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n. The ability to predict the future; knowledge of actions before they occur.

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Pretension

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n. A claim or a title to an object; a claim to importance or dignity.

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Prevaricate

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v. To lie; to hide the truth; to stray from the right course.

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Primal

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adj. First in rank; of highest importance; being the first; the original.

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Primiparous

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adj. Bearing a first offspring; a woman who has borne but one child or who is pregnant for the first time.

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Primogeniture

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n. Seniority by birth; state of being the first-born child; the right of the eldest child.

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Privation

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n. Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life; hardship; the result of deprivation.

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Probity

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n. Uprightness; honesty.

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Procurator

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n. A person who is employed to handle the affairs of another; an agent.

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Profligate

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adj. Dissolute; recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant.

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Progenitor

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n. Ancestor; the person or thing that is responsible for all subsequent relatives.

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Progeny

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n. Children; offspring; the descendants of a person or of a group of people.

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Prognathous

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adj. Having a jaw that sticks out; having protrusive teeth.

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Proletarian

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n. A member of the non-elite; somebody of the working class; a blue-collar worker.

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Prolixity

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n. Tedious, unnecessary wordiness; diffuse.

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Propitious

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adj. Auspicious; presenting favorable circumstances; benevolent.

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Prosaic

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adj. Commonplace, mundane, hackneyed, trite, pedestrian.

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Proscenium

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n. The part of a stage that is front of curtain.

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Proscribe

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v. To prohibit; to denounce as dangerous; to condemn as harmful.

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Proselytize

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v. To convert to a religion; to cause a person to accept a certain belief.

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Prosody

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n. The study of the metric structure of a poem or single verse; the art of versification.

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Protean

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adj. Able to take on many forms; versatile; able to eventually morph into many different forms.

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Protract

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v. To prolong; to make longer in terms of time; to draw out.

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Provenance

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n. A place of origin; the origin or source of something.

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Providence

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n. The quality of being provident; preparation for the future; foresight.

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Provincial

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adj. Pertaining to a narrow region; limited in scope; unsophisticated.

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Proviso

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n. A condition as part of an agreement; a stipulation.

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Prudence

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n. Careful forethought.

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Prudish

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adj. Overly proper; excessively modest.

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Puerile

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adj. Childish; immature.

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Puissance

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n. Power; might.

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Pulchritude

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n. Beauty; comeliness.

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Punctilious

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adj. Precise; paying attention to trivialities; strict in observing customs.

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Purgatory

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n. The place where spirits dwell; in terms of religion, a temporary state or place where it is believed that souls reside after one's death and where such souls are cleaned.

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Purported

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adj. Claimed but as yet unproven; rumored; alleged.

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Purveyor

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n. A person who provides food items; a caterer.

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Pusillanimous

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adj. Cowardly; lacking courage; fearful.

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Putative

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adj. Supposed; inconclusively accepted as true.

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Putrefy

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v. To make impure; to contaminate; to make unusable.