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| penury | extreme poverty |
| peremptory | final, decisive |
| perfidy | treachery |
| perfunctory | mechanical, spiritless |
| periphery | border |
| permeate | to spread |
| pernicious | destructive |
| perspicacious | acute, discerning |
| persipcuous | lucid |
| pertinacity | persistency |
| peruse | to read |
| pervade | to spread, to saturate |
| perverse | contrary-minded, willful |
| petulant | highly irritable |
| philatelist | stamp collector |
| philology | study of languages |
| phelmatic | sluggish |
| piebald | of various colors |
| pilfer | to steal |
| piquant | seasoned, racy, lively |
| pique | wounded pride, vexation |
| pithy | meaningful, terse |
| placate | to appease, conciliate |
| plagiarism | stealing another's ideas |
| platitude | a hackneyed remark |
| plausidble | semmingly trustworthy or reasonable |
| pleveian | common, relating to common people |
| plebiscite | vote by the people |
| plethora | super-abundance |
| poignant | keen, touching |
| ponderous | weighty |
| portentous | prophetic of evil |
| posthumous | occuring after death |
| postulate | a hypothesis |
| potent | powerful |
| precarious | dangerously uncertain |
| precedence | going before |
| precedent | tradition established by time |
| preclude | to render ineffectual |
| precocious | prematurely bright |
| precursor | forerunner |
| predatory | plundering |
| predilection | strong inclination; partiality |
| prehensile | grasping |
| prelude | introduction |
| premise | a statement from which a conclusion is drawn |
| prerogative | unquestioned right |
| presentiment | feeling of something to come |
| presently | soon |
| presentment | presentation |
| prevaricate | to lie |
| prestine | primitive |
| probity | integrity, uprightness |
| proboscis | nose |
| proclivity | inclination |
| procrastinate | to put off |
| prodigal | extravagant |
| prodigious | vast |
| profligate | dissipated |
| profuse | lavishly overabundant |
| progeny | offspring |
| prognosis | forecast |
| prolific | highly productive or inventive |
| prolix | wordy |
| promiscuous | undiscriminating |
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