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- paean
- song of joy
- pall
-
a covering
to become weary, unpleasant - palliate
- to ease, lessen
- panoply
- protective covering
- pariah
- outcast
- parlous
- dangerous
- parochial
- narrow
- paroxysm
- sudden outburst
- pedagogue
- school teacher
- pejorative
- insulting
- pellucid
- clear
- penitent
- expressing sorrow for sinning
- peregrinate
- to wander
- peremptory
- decisive
- perforce
- of necessity
- periphrastic*
- said in a roundabout way
- peroration
- the concluding part of speech
- philippic
- bitter verbal attack
- picaresque
- adventurous wanderer
- piddling
- trifling, petty
- piecemeal
- bit by bit
- pied
- many colored
- pillory
- to expose to ridicule
- plaudit
- applause
- plenary
- complete
- plumb
- to test
- poltroon
- a coward
- portentous
- foreshadowing
- potentate
- ruler
- precipitate
- to bring about an action suddenly
- précis
- brief summary
- predicate
- to declare
- preen
- to dress well
- prehensile
- adapted for seizing
- presage
- to warn in advance
- prescience
- foreknowledge
- presentiment
- anticipation (of evil)
- preternatural
- abnormal
- prevaricate
- to lie
- primp
- to dress fussily
- prismatic
- multi colored
- privation
- loss of essential
- procrustean
- designed to get conformity at any cost
- prodigal
- wasteful
- progeny
- descendants
- prolix
- long and wordy
- promulgate
- to announce, advocate
- propinquity
- nearness
- propitious
- favorable
- proselyte
- a convert
- protean
- changeable
- puissant
- strong
- punctilious
- precise
- purvey
- to supply
- pusillanimous
- cowardly
- putative
- supposed