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- panacea
- cure-all; remedy for everything
- paucity
- shortage; scarceness
- contradict
- to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically. 2. to speak contrary to the assertions o
- a penny of your thought
- This idiom is used as a way of asking someone what they are thinking about.
- perjury
- lying under oath
- plagiarize
- using another words as your own
- troublesome
- causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious
- irritate
- to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
- peruse
- to read carefully
- falsify
- to make false or incorrect, esp. so as to deceive
- phlegmatic
- slow to respond; not easily excited
- coward
- a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.; a timid or easily intimidated person.
- sophomore
- a student in the second year of high school or college
- parole
- the conditional release of a person from prison prior to the end of the maximum sentence imposed. b. such release or its duration.
- plausible
- seemingly true; apparently believable
- faculty
- an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily. 2. one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties. 3. an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing. 4. exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management. 5. Education. a. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.
- pariah
- outcast; person who is shunned by other
- parsimonious
- stingy; cheap
- shun
- to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid
- detest
- o feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely
- scrutiny
- a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry
- sloppy
- muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain. 2. splashed or soiled with liquid. 3. careless; loose
- penitent
- sorry of wrongdoing and willing to make amend
- paradox
- statement that seems to contradict itself
- pensive
- thoughtful; thinking seriously