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PACIFY

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v. to calm someone down; to placate;

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PAINSTAKING

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painstaking taking pains a extremely careful; taking pains;

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PALATABLE

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palate; pleasant to the taste; agreeable to the feelings;

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PALLIATE

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v. to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of the problem; to assuage; to mitigate;

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PALLOR

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paleness whiteness; paleness; whiteness;

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PALPABLE

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a. capable of being touched; obvious; tangible;

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PALTRY

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a. insignificant; worthless;

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PANACEA

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n. something that cures everything;

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PANDEMIC

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prevalent throughout a large area;

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PANEGYRIC

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elaborate praise; eulogy;

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PARABLE

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palpable; touchable culpable; guilty; religious allegory; fable; morality tale;

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PARADIGM

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n. a model or example;

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PARADOX

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n. a true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself; an untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical;

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PARAGON

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paradigm; a model or pattern of excellence;

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PARALLEL

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similar comparable;

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PARANOIA

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a. mental illness in which the sufferer believes people are out to get him;unreasonable anxiety;

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PARANORMAL

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having to do with an event or events that cant be explained scientifically;supernatural;

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PAROCHIAL

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a. narrow or confined in point of view; provincial;

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PARODY

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n. a satirical imitation;

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PAROXYSM

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a. sudden violent outburst; a severe attack;

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PARSIMONIOUS

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stingy a stingy;

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PARTISAN

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n. one who supports a particular person cause or idea;

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PARTITION

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division; dividing wall;

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PASTORAL

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idyllic; rural; rustic; peaceful and calm like the country;

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PATENT

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obvious a obvious;

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PATERNAL

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a. fatherly; father like;

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PATHOLOGY

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n. the science of diseases;

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PATHOS

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that which makes people feel pity or sorrow;

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PATINA

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archaic surface discoloration caused by age and exudation;

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PATRIARCH

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n. the male head of a family or tribe;

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PATRICIAN

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n. a person of noble birth; an aristocrat;

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PATRIMONY

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legacy; lethargy; an inheritance especially from a father; a legacy;

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PATRONIZE

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v. to treat as an inferior; to condescend to;

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PAUCITY

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scarcity n scarcity;

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PECCADILLO

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n. a minor offense;

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PECULIAR

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unusual; bizarre; individual; belonging to a particular region;

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PEDANTIC

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a. boringly scholarly or academic;

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PEDESTRIAN

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unimaginative banal a unimaginative; banal;

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PEJORATIVE

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negative disparaging a negative; disparaging;

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PENCHANT

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n. a strong taste or liking for something; a predilection;

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PENITENT

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sorry repentant contrite a sorry; repentant; contrite;

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PENSIVE

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a. thoughtful and sad;

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PEREGRINATION

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wandering; traveling;

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PEREMPTORY

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categorical a final; categorical; dictatorial;

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PERENNIAL

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continual a continual; happening again and again or year after year;

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PERFIDY

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treachery n treachery;

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PERFUNCTORY

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careless; unenthusiastic a unenthusiastic; careless;

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PERIPATETIC

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itinerant wandering a wandering; traveling continually; itinerant;

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PERIPHERY

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n. the outside edge of something;

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PERJURY

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n. lying under oath;

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PERMEATE

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v. to spread or seep through; to penetrate;

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PERNICIOUS

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deadly a deadly; extremely evil;

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PERPETRATOR

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the one who committed the act;

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PERPETUATE

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to make something perpetual; to keep from perishing;

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PERQUISITE

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perk n a privilege that goes along with a job; a perk;

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PERTINENT

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relevant a relevant; dealing with the matter at hand;

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PERTURB

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v. to disturb greatly;

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PERUSE

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v. to read carefully;

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PERVADE

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v. to spread throughout;

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PERVERSE

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obdurate stern stiff contrary; stubborn;

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PETULANT

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cranky rude a rude; cranky; ill tempered;

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PHANTASM

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apparition; ghost; phantom;

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PHILANTHROPY

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n. love of mankind especially by doing good deeds;

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PHILISTINE

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n. a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters;

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PHLEGMATIC

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disinterest nonchalant indifferent; calm or indifferent; not easily roused to excitement;

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PILGRIMAGE

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religious o spiritual journey; excursion; peregrination;

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PIVOTAL

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crucial a crucial;

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PLACATE

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v. to pacify; to appease; to soothe;

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PLACEBO

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a. fake medication; a fake medication used as a control in tests of the effectiveness of drugs;

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PLAINTIVE

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a. expressing sadness or sorrow;

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PLATITUDE

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n. a dull or trite remark; a cliche;

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PLATONIC

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nonsexual; purely spiritual;

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PLAUSIBLE

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believable; convincing;

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PLEBEIAN

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vulgar n common; vulgar; low class; bourgeois;

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PLETHORA

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n. an excess;

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PLIABLE

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flexible; easy to bend; easy to convince persuade or mold;

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PLIGHT

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a. dangerous distressing or unpleasant situation;

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PLOYS

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a. reverent or devout; outwardly and sometimes falsely reverent or devout; hypocritical;

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PLUNDER

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flounder; to loot; o ransack;

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PLURALISM

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a. condition of society in which distinct groups exist and function together get retain their own identities;

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POIGNANT

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a. painfully emotional; extremely moving; sharp or astute;

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POLARIZE

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v. to break up into opposing factions or groupings;

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POLEMIC

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n. a powerful argument often make to attack or refute a controversial issue;

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PONDEROUS

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massive dull a so large as to be clumsy; massive; dull;

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PONTIFICATE

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to speak pompously or dogmatically;

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POROUS

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filled with many tiny holes; permeable; absorbent;

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PORTENT

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n. an omen; a sign of something coming in the future;

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POSTERITY

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future generations; descendants; heirs;

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POSTHUMOUS

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occurring after ones death; published after the death of the author;

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POSTULATE

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n. something accepted as true without proof; and axiom;

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POSTURE

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to act or speak artificially or affectedly;

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PRAGMATIC

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a. practical; down to earth; based on experience rather than theory;

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PRATTLE

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to chatter on and on; to babble childishly;

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PRECARIOUS

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dangerously insecure or unsteady;

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PRECEDENT

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n. an earlier example or model of something;

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PRECEPT

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maxim; n a rule to live by; a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior; a maxim;

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PRECIPITATE

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v. to cause to happen abruptly;

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PRECIPITOUS

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steep; a steep;

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PRECLUDE

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v. to prevent something from ever happening;

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PRECOCIOUS

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unusually mature; uncommonly gifted;

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PRECURSOR

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n. forerunner; something that goes before and anticipates or paves the way for whatever it is that follows;

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PREDECESSOR

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someone or something that precedes in time;

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PREDICAMENT

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a. dangerous or unpleasant situation; a dilemma;

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PREDILECTION

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n. a natural preference for something;

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PREDISPOSE

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to make susceptible; to put in a frame of mind for; to incline toward;

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PREDOMINANT

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dominantmost important; dominant; having power over others;

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PREEMINENT

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a. better than anyone else; outstanding; supreme;

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PREEMPT

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v. to seize something by prior right;

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PREGNANT

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highly significant; overflowing;

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PRELUDE

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overture; introduction; something that precedes something else;

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PREMEDITATED

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planned beforehand; prearranged; plotted;

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PREMISE

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n. an assumption; the basis for a conclusion;

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PREPONDERANCE

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superiority in weight number size extent influence ext majority; predominance;

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PREPOSSESS

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v. to preoccupy; to influence beforehand or prejudice; to make a good impression on beforehand;

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PREROGATIVE

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n. a right or privilege connected exclusively with a position a person a class a nation or some other group or classification;

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PRESAGE

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to portend; to foreshadow; to forecast or predict;

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PRESENTIMENT

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the feeling that something especially something bad is about to happen;

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PRESUMABLY

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presume probably; the assumption is that; doubtless;

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PRESUPPOSE

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to assume beforehand; to take for granted in advance; to require as a prior condition;

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PREVAIL

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v. to triumph; to overcome rivals; with on upon or with to persuade;

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PRIMAL

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first; original; of the greatest importance;

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PRISTINE

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a. original; unspoiled; pure;

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PRIVATION

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lack of comforts or necessities; poverty;

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PROCLAIM

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declare; to announce; declare; make known;

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PROCURE

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to obtain or acquire by special means;

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PRODIGAL

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a. wastefully extravagant;

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PRODIGIOUS

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a. extraordinary; enormous; vast;

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PRODIGY

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n. an extremely talented child; an extraordinary accomplishment or occurrence; wonder;

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PROFANE

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a. not having to do with religion; irreverent; blasphemous;

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PROFESS

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v. to declare; to declare falsely or pretend;

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PROFESSED

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;

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PROFESSIONAL

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a. n;

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PROFICIENT

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at in n expert a thoroughly competent; skillful; very good at something;

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PROFLIGATE

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a. n a extravagantly wasteful and usually wildly immoral;

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PROFOUND

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n. a deep several senses; sleep knowledge meaning thanks anxiety bow n profundity profoundness;

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PROFUSE

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a. flowing; extravagant;

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PROGENY

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offspring; descendants;

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PROLETARIAT

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n. the industrial working class;

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PROLIFERATE

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v. to spread or grow rapidly;

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PROLIFIC

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a. abundantly productive; fruitful or fertile;

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PROMULGATE

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v. to proclaim; to publicly or formally declare something;

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PROPAGATE

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to reproduce; to multiply; to spread or disseminate;

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PROPENSITY

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n. a natural inclination or tendency; a predilection;

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PROPITIOUS

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a. marked by favorable signs or conditions;

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PROPONENT

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n. an advocate; a supporter of a position;

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PROPOUND

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propose; to set forth or propose; to offer for consideration;

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PROPRIETARY

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a. characteristic of an owner of property; constituting property;

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PROPRIETY

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n. properness; good manners;

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PROSAIC

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a. dull; unimaginative; like prose as opposed to poetry;

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PROSCRIBE

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v. to outlaw; to prohibit;

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PROSELYTIZE

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v. to convert someone from one religion or doctrine to another; to recruit converts to a religion or doctrine;

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PROT

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g;

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PROTAGONIST

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n. the leading character in a novel play or other work; a leader or champion;

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PROTOCOL

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diplomatic etiquette and customs;

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PROTRACT

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prolong v to prolong;

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PROVIDENT

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a. preparing for the future; providing for the future; frugal;

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PROVINCIAL

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a. limited in outlook to ones own small corner of the world; narrow;

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PROVISIONAL

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a. conditional; temporary; tentative;

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PROVOCATION

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incitement; the act of provoking; incitement; cause;

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PROWESS

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exceptional skill or strength; uncommon bravery;

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PROXIMITY

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n. nearness;

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PRUDENT

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a. careful; having foresight;

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PRURIENT

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licentious lascivious; having lustful thoughts or desires; causing lust;

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PSEUDONYM

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a. false name; an alias;

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PSYCHE

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the human soul; the mind; the spirit;

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PUMMEL

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plumb; plummet; to pound or punch with the fists;

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PUNCTILIOUS

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meticulously attentive to detail; scrupulously and sometimes annoyingly exact;

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PUNDIT

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erudite; an expert; an authority; a learned person;

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PUNGENT

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repugnant; sharp tasting or sharp smelling; acrid; causing or incisive;

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PUNITIVE

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inflicting a punishment;

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PURBLIND

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dim sighted; practically blind; lacking understanding or imagination;

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PURITANICAL

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very severe and strict about morals;

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PURPORTED

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a. rumored; claimed;

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PUTATIVE

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a. commonly accepted; supposed; reputed;