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- pacify v
- To bring into a peaceful state
- packet n
- A bundle, as of letters
- pact n
- A covenant
- pagan n
- A worshiper of false gods
- pageant n
- A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one
- palate n
- The roof of the mouth
- palatial adj
- Magnificent
- paleontology n
- The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms
- palette n
- A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting
- palinode n
- A retraction
- pall v
- To make dull by satiety
- palliate v
- To cause to appear less guilty
- pallid adj
- Of a pale or wan appearance
- palpable n
- perceptible by feeling or touch
- palsy n
- Paralysis
- paly adj
- Lacking color or brilliancy
- pamphlet n
- A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest
- pamphleteer v
- To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones
- panacea n
- A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases
- Pan-American adj
- Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South
- pandemic adj
- Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease
- pandemonium n
- A fiendish or riotous uproar
- panegyric n
- A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act
- panel n
- A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame
- panic n
- A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear
- panoply n
- A full set of armor
- panorama n
- A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene
- pantheism n
- The worship of nature for itself or its beauty
- Pantheon n
- A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof
- pantomime n
- Sign-language
- pantoscope n
- A very wide-angled photographic lens
- papacy n
- The official head of the Roman Catholic Church
- papyrus n
- The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans
- parable n
- A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral
- paradox n
- A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief
- paragon n
- A model of excellence
- parallel v
- To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts
- parallelism n
- Essential likeness
- paralysis n
- Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles
- paralyze v
- To deprive of the power to act
- paramount adj
- Supreme in authority
- paramour n
- One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress
- paraphernalia n
- Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment
- paraphrase v
- Translate freely
- pare v
- To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything
- parentage n
- The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect
- Pariah n
- A member of a degraded class; a social outcast
- parish n
- The ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor
- Parisian adj
- Of or pertaining to the city of Paris
- parity n
- Equality, as of condition or rank
- parlance n
- Mode of speech
- parley v
- To converse in
- parliament n
- A legislative body
- parlor n
- A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests
- parody v
- To render ludicrous by imitating the language of
- paronymous adj
- Derived from the same root or primitive word
- paroxysm n
- A sudden outburst of any kind of activity
- parricide n
- The murder of a parent
- parse v
- To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word
- parsimonious adj
- Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money
- partible adj
- Separable
- participant n
- One having a share or part
- participate v
- To receive or have a part or share of
- partition n
- That which separates anything into distinct parts
- partisan adj
- Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party
- passible adj
- Capable of feeling of suffering
- passive adj
- Unresponsive
- pastoral adj
- Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life
- paternal adj
- Fatherly
- paternity n
- Fatherhood
- pathos n
- The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy
- patriarch n
- The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right
- patrician adj
- Of senatorial or noble rank
- patrimony n
- An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father
- patriotism n
- Love and devotion to one's country
- patronize v
- To exercise an arrogant condescension toward
- patronymic adj
- Formed after one's father's name
- patter v
- To mumble something over and over
- paucity n
- Fewness
- pauper n
- One without means of support
- pauperism n
- Dependence on charity
- pavilion n
- An open structure for temporary shelter
- payee n
- A person to whom money has been or is to be paid
- peaceable adj
- Tranquil
- peaceful adj
- Tranquil
- peccable adj
- Capable of sinning
- peccadillo n
- A small breach of propriety or principle
- peccant adj
- Guilty
- pectoral adj
- Pertaining to the breast or thorax
- pecuniary adj
- Consisting of money
- pedagogics n
- The science and art of teaching
- pedagogue n
- A schoolmaster
- pedagogy n
- The science and art of teaching
- pedal n
- A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other machines
- pedant n
- A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning
- peddle v
- To go about with a small stock of goods to sell
- pedestal n
- A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase
- pedestrian n
- One who journeys on foot
- pediatrics n
- The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood
- pedigree n
- One's line of ancestors
- peddler n
- One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail
- peerage n
- The nobility
- peerless adj
- Of unequaled excellence or worth
- peevish adj
- Petulant (irritable)
- pellucid adj
- Translucent
- penalty n
- The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law
- penance n
- Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an expression of
- penitence
- penchant n
- A bias in favor of something
- pendant n
- Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use
- pendulous adj
- Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part
- pendulum n
- A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock
- penetrable adj
- That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force
- penetrate v
- To enter or force a way into the interior parts of
- penetration n
- Discernment
- peninsular adj
- Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water
- penitence n
- Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone
- penitential adj
- Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone
- pennant n
- A small flag
- pension n
- A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her
- pentagram n
- A figure having five points or lobes
- pentavalent adj
- Quinqeuvalent
- pentad n
- The number five
- pentagon n
- A figure, especially, with five angles and five sides
- pentahedron n
- A solid bounded by five plane faces
- pentameter n
- In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet
- pentathlon n
- The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants
- penultimate adj
- A syllable or member of a series that is last but one
- penurious adj
- Excessively sparing in the use of money
- penury n
- Indigence
- perambulate v
- To walk about
- perceive v
- To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses
- perceptible adj
- Cognizable
- perception n
- Knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world
- percipience n
- The act of perceiving
- percipient n
- One who or that which perceives
- percolate v
- To filter
- percolator n
- A filter
- percussion n
- The sharp striking of one body against another
- peremptory adj
- Precluding question or appeal
- perennial adj
- Continuing though the year or through many years
- perfectible adj
- Capable of being made perfect
- perfidy n
- Treachery
- perforate v
- To make a hole or holes through
- perform v
- To accomplish
- perfumery n
- The preparation of perfumes
- perfunctory adj
- Half-hearted
- perhaps adv
- Possibly
- perigee n
- The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth
- periodicity n
- The habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals
- peripatetic adj
- Walking about
- perjure v
- To swear falsely to
- perjury n
- A solemn assertion of a falsity
- permanence n
- A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature
- permanent adj
- Durable
- permeate v
- To pervade
- permissible adj
- That may be allowed
- permutation n
- Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items
- pernicious adj
- Tending to kill or hurt
- perpendicular adj
- Straight up and down
- perpetrator n
- The doer of a wrong or a criminal act
- perpetuate v
- To preserve from extinction or oblivion
- perquisite n
- Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages
- persecution n
- Harsh or malignant oppression
- perseverance n
- A persistence in purpose and effort
- persevere v
- To continue striving in spite of discouragements
- persiflage n
- Banter
- persist v
- To continue steadfast against opposition
- persistence n
- A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like
- personage n
- A man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station
- personal adj
- Not general or public
- personality n
- The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual
- personnel n
- The force of persons collectively employed in some service
- perspective n
- The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view
- perspicacious adj
- Astute
- perspicacity n
- Acuteness or discernment
- perspicuous adj
- Lucid
- perspiration n
- Sweat
- perspire v
- To excrete through the pores of the skin
- persuade v
- To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection
- persuadable adj
- capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement, or anything that moves the
- feelings
- pertinacious adj
- Persistent or unyielding
- pertinacity n
- Unyielding adherence
- pertinent adj
- Relevant
- perturb v
- To disturb greatly
- perturbation n
- Mental excitement or confusion
- perusal n
- The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully
- pervade v
- To pass or spread through every part
- pervasion n
- The state of spreading through every part
- pervasive adj
- Thoroughly penetrating or permeating
- perverse adj
- Unreasonable
- perversion n
- Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose
- perversity n
- Wickedness
- pervert n
- One who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false
- pervious adj
- Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance
- pestilence n
- A raging epidemic
- pestilent adj
- Having a malign influence or effect
- pestilential adj
- having the nature of or breeding pestilence
- peter v
- To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value
- petrify v
- To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character
- petulance n
- The character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant
- petulant adj
- Displaying impatience
- pharmacopoeia n
- A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists
- pharmacy n
- The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines
- phenomenal adj
- Extraordinary or marvelous
- phenomenon n
- Any unusual occurrence
- philander v
- To play at courtship with a woman
- philanthropic adj
- Benevolent
- philanthropist n
- One who endeavors to help his fellow men
- philanthropy n
- Active humanitarianism
- philately n
- The study and collection of stamps
- philharmonic adj
- Fond of music
- philogynist n
- One who is fond of women
- philologist n
- An expert in linguistics
- philology n
- The study of language in connection with history and literature
- philosophize v
- To seek ultimate causes and principles
- philosophy n
- The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything
- phlegmatic adj
- Not easily roused to feeling or action
- phonetic adj
- Representing articulate sounds or speech
- phonic adj
- Pertaining to the nature of sound
- phonogram n
- A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound
- phonology n
- The science of human vocal sounds
- phosphorescence n
- The property of emitting light
- photoelectric adj
- Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity
- photometer n
- Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights
- photometry n
- The art of measuring the intensity of light
- physicist n
- A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy
- physics n
- The science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy
- physiocracy n
- The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth
- physiognomy n
- The external appearance merely
- physiography n
- Description of nature
- physiology n
- The science of organic functions
- physique n
- The physical structure or organization of a person
- picayune adj
- Of small value
- piccolo n
- A small flute
- piece n
- A loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass
- piecemeal adv
- Gradually
- pillage n
- Open robbery, as in war
- pillory n
- A wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn
- pincers n
- An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot
- pinchers n
- An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot
- pinnacle n
- A high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak
- pioneer n
- One among the first to explore a country
- pious adj
- Religious
- pique v
- To excite a slight degree of anger in
- piteous adj
- Compassionate
- pitiable adj
- Contemptible
- pitiful adj
- Wretched
- pitiless adj
- Hard-hearted