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SAT words from 'oversee' to 'paramour'

Words alphabetically from 'oversee' to 'paramour' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/

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oversee
To superintend.
overseer
A supervisor.
overshadow
To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
overstride
To step beyond.
overthrow
To vanquish an established ruler or government.
overtone
A harmonic.
overture
An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
overweight
Preponderance.
pacify
To bring into a peaceful state.
packet
A bundle, as of letters.
pact
A covenant.
pagan
A worshiper of false gods.
pageant
A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
palate
The roof of the mouth.
palatial
Magnificent.
paleontology
The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
palette
A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
palinode
A retraction.
pall
To make dull by satiety.
palliate
To cause to appear less guilty.
pallid
Of a pale or wan appearance.
palpable
perceptible by feeling or touch.
palsy
Paralysis.
paly
Lacking color or brilliancy.
pamphlet
A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
pamphleteer
To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
panacea
A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
Pan-American
Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
pandemic
Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
pandemonium
A fiendish or riotous uproar.
panegyric
A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
panel
A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
panic
A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
panoply
A full set of armor.
panorama
A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
pantheism
The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
Pantheon
A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
pantomime
Sign-language.
pantoscope
A very wide-angled photographic lens.
papacy
The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
papyrus
The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
parable
A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
paradox
A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
paragon
A model of excellence.
parallel
To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
parallelism
Essential likeness.
paralysis
Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
paralyze
To deprive of the power to act.
paramount
Supreme in authority.
paramour
One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.

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