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palatable
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fit to be eaten; pleasant tasting; pleasing
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pastoral
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rural; relating to a country way of life
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pallid
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abnormally pale; lacking in color or interest
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patent
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a government document giving a person the right to profit from an invention; to acquire such a document
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paradox
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a statement that may be true but seems to say contradictory things
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paternal
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fatherly; inherited from or related through one’s father
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paraphrase
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to restate textual information; a restatement of text
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patriarch
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a founder or leader of a tribe or family; a respected old man
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parody
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an imitation of a serious written work that ridicules the original; to imitate in order to ridicule
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pauper
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a person who is very poor, especially one dependent upon public charity
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