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34 Cards in this Set
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Pacify
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To calm someone down; to placate
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Painstaking
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extremely careful; taking pains
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Palliate
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to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of the problem; to assuage; to mitigate
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Palpable
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capable of being touched; obvious; tangible
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Paltry
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insignificant; worthless
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Panacea
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something that cures everything
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Paradigm
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a model or example
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Paradox
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a true statement/ phenomenon that nontheless seems to contradict itself; an untrue statement/phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical
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Parochial
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narrow or confined in point of view; provincial
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Parody
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a satirical imitation
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Parsimonious
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stingy
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Partisan
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one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea
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Patent
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obvious
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Paternal
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fatherly; fatherlike
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Pathology
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the science of diseases
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Patriarch
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the male head of a family/tribe
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Patrician
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a person of noble birth; an aristocrat
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Patronize
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to treat as an inferior; to condescend to
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Paucity
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scarcity
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Peccadillo
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a minor offense
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Pedantic
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boringly scholarly or academic
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Pedestrian
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unimaginative; banal
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Pejorative
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negative; disparaging
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Penchant
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a strong taste or liking for something; a predilection
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Penitent
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sorry; repentant; contrite
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Pensive
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thoughtful and sad
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Peremptory
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final; categorical; dictatorial
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Perennial
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continual; happening again and again or year after year
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Perfidy
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treachery
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Perfunctory
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unenthusiastic; careless
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Peripatetic
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wandering; traveling continually; itinerant
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Periphery
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the outside edge of something
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Perjury
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lying under oath
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Permeate
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to spread or seep through; to penetrate
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