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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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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;
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