SAT - P
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- paean
- song of praise or joy
- palatable
- pleasant to the taste
- palatila
- magnificent
- pall
- something that covesr or conceals; to become wearisome of unpleasant
- palliate
- to ease, to lessen
- pallid
- pale, dull
- palpable
- obvious, capable of being touched or felt
- palpitate
- to beat rapidly, to tremble
- paltry
- trivial, worthless
- panacea
- a cure-all, an answer for all problems
- panache
- self-confidence; a showy manner
- pandemic
- general, wide-spread
- panegyric
- an expression of praise
- panoply
- suit of armor
- paradigm
- a model, example
- paradox
- statement that seems contradictory but probably true
- paragon
- a model of excellence or perfection
- pariah
- an outcast
- parity
- equality, similarity
- parley
- discussion, conference
- parlous
- dangerous
- paroxysm
- a sudden outburst, a fit
- parry
- to avoid something such as a thurst or blow
- parsimonious
- stingy, miserly
- partisan
- a strong supporter of a cause
- passe
- old fashioned, out-of-date
- pastoral
- pertaining to the country
- patent
- evident or obvious
- pathogenic
- causing disease
- pathos
- pity, deep feeling
- patrician
- aristocratic
- patrimony
- inherited right
- paucity
- scarcity, lack
- peccadillo
- a minor offense
- peculate
- to steal, to embezzle
- pecuniary
- pertaining to moeny
- pedagogue
- a schoolteacher
- pedantic
- tending to show off one's learning
- peerless
- without equal, unmatched
- pejorative
- having a negative effect, insulting
- pellucid
- transparent, clear
- penchant
- a strong liking for; an inclination
- penury
- extreme poverty
- peon
- common worker
- perdition
- damnation, ruin, hell
- peregrinate
- to travel from place to place
- peremptory
- decisive, final, not open to debate
- perennial
- lasting for a long time; perpetual
- perfidious
- deceitful, treacherous, unfaithful
- perforce
- of necessity
- perfunctory
- done without care, routine
- perigee
- point nearest to the earth
- periphery
- outside boundary, unimportant aspects of a subject
- periphrastic
- said in a roundabout way
- pernicious
- deadly, destructive
- peroration
- the concluding part of a speech
- perpetrate
- to do something evil, to be guilty of. "perp"
- perquisite
- something additional to regular pay
- perspicacity
- keenness of judgment
- perspicuity
- clearness, as of a statement. U- lUcid
- pert
- bold, saucy
- pervade
- to spread throughout, to pass through
- petulant
- irratible, rude
- phalanx
- closely massed boyd of persons
- philippic
- a bitter verbal attack
- philistine
- uncultured; common
- phlegmatic
- unemotional, cool, not easily excited
- picaresque
- pertaining to an adventurous wanderer
- piddling
- trifling, petty
- piecemeal
- bit by bit, gradually
- pied
- many-colored, variegated
- piety
- reverence, devotion
- pillage
- to rob by violence
- pillory
- to expose to public ridicule or abuse
- piquant
- stimulating to the taste, exciting interest
- pique
- to irritate or annoy
- pithy
- concise to the point
- pittance
- small share or amount
- plaintive
- sorrowful, sad
- platitude
- a dull or trite remark
- plaudit
- applause, any expression of approval
- plenary
- full, complete, absolute
- plumb
- to test, to measure
- poach
- to trespass
- poignant
- keenly distressing; affecting the emotions
- polemic
- a controversy or argument
- poltroon
- a coward
- polychromatic
- many-colored
- polyglot
- speaking or writing in several languages
- pomp
- brilliant show or display
- ponderous
- heavy, burdensome
- porcine
- like a pig
- portentous
- warning, foreshadowning
- postulate
- to assume without proof; to take for granted
- potable
- drinkable
- potentate
- ruler, monarch
- prate
- to talk extensively and pointlessly; to babble
- precept
- a rule of conduct
- precipitate
- to bring about an action suddenly
- precipitous
- extremely steep
- preclude
- to prevent, to shut out
- precocious
- prematurely developed
- predatory
- living my plunder, exploitation, etc... PIRATE!
- predicate
- to declare, to assert
- predilection
- a liking, preference, inclination
- predispose
- to make susceptible
- preeminent
- standing out above all others
- prehensile
- adapted for seizing or grasping something
- preponderance
- superiority in quantity or power, dominance
- presage
- to indicate or warn in advance (sage-wisdom)
- presentiment
- anticipation, especially of something evil
- presumptuous
- boldly assuming
- preternatural
- abnormal, beyond what is natural
- pretext
- a false reason or motive; an excuse.. "false pretext"=redundant
- prevaricate
- to lie
- primordial
- first, original
- prismatic
- many-colored
- pristine
- uncorrupted, in its original state
- privation
- loss or lack of something essential
- privy
- having knowledge of something private or secret
- probity
- honesty, integrity
- proclivity
- inclination, tendency
- procrustean
- designed to get conformity at any cost
- procure
- to obtain, secure
- prodigal
- wasteful
- prodigious
- enormous, vast
- proffer
- to offer
- profligate
- shamelessly immoral; extremely wasteful
- prognosticate
- to predict, to foretell
- prolific
- productive, fertile
- prolix
- tediously long and wordy
- promulgate
- to announce to advocate
- prone
- reclining, lying flat, inclined
- propagate
- to spread, multiply
- propensity
- inclination, tendency
- propinquity
- nearness, closeness
- propitious
- favorable
- propriety
- conformity, appropriateness
- prosaic
- dull, commonplace
- proscribe
- to denounce, exile
- proselyte
- a person who has changed from one relgion to another, convert
- protean
- changeable, variable
- prototype
- the original
- protract
- to draw out, prolong
- proverbial
- well-known
- provident
- having foresight
- provincial
- countrified, narrow, limited
- provisional
- temporary
- proviso
- a condition
- proxy
- one who acts in place of another
- prurient
- lustful, obscence, lewd
- pseudo
- false, counterfeit
- pseudonym
- a fake or assumed name
- puerile
- childish, immature
- pugilist
- a boxer
- puissant
- powerful, strong
- pulchritude
- beauty
- punctilious
- very exact, precise
- pundit
- a learned man, an expert or authority
- punitive
- pertaining to punishment
- puritanical
- strict, rigid, harsh
- purloin
- to steal
- purport
- to claim to be
- purvey
- to furnish, supply
- pusillanimous
- cowardly, fearful
- putative
- supposed, believed
- putrefy
- to rot, to decay