| Question |
Answer |
| palatable |
acceptable to the taste/sufficiently good to be edible |
| palliate |
to moderate the severity of/abate |
| pallid |
having an extremely pale complexion |
| palpable |
capable of being touched or felt/real |
| paragon |
model or example of perfection |
| parch |
to make very dry especially by heating |
| parsimonious |
stingy |
| pathos |
quality in something that makes you pity it/feeling sympathy or pity |
| paucity |
smallness in number/scarcity |
| pecuniary |
relating to money |
| pedagogue |
schoolteacher or educator/boring or dry teacher |
| pedant |
boring person who knows a lot but has little practical experience/dweeb |
| pedestrian |
commonplace/ordinary |
| penchant |
strong liking/inclination |
| pensive |
engaged in deep and often sad thought |
| penurious |
parsimonious/stingy/not willing to spend |
| penurious (2) |
extremely poor |
| penury |
poverty/destitution |
| perfidious |
dishonest |
| perfunctory |
done routinely or carelessly and listlessly |
| permeable |
capable of being permeated |
| permeate |
to spread or flow through |
| perspicacious |
perceptive/understanding |
| petulant |
unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered |
| philanthropy |
improvement of the world through charity/love of humanity in general |
| pillage |
to rob violently |
| pithy |
concise and meaningful |
| placate |
to appease/to pacify/to calm |
| placid |
calm/composed/undisturbed |
| plaintive |
sad/melancholy |
| plethora |
superabundance/plenty/excess |
| plunder |
to rob/to pillage |
| politic |
shrewd/clever |
| posthumous |
continuing or done after one's death |
| pragmatic |
practical |
| precipice |
cliff/steep overhang |
| precocious |
characterized by unusually early development |
| precursor |
what came before |
| presage |
to give an indication or warning of something that will happen in the future |
| prevalent |
commonly occuring or exsisting |
| prevaricate |
to avoid the truth/equivocate/lie |
| proboscis |
long/hollow snout |
| profuse |
abundant/overflowing |
| proliferate |
to increase or spread rapidly |
| prolific |
producing lots of offspring or fruit/fertile/producing lots of work or results |
| prosaic |
lacking excitement or imagination/dull |
| puissant |
powerful/mighty |
| pulverize |
to grind to bits |
| pusillanimous |
timid/cowardly/wimpy |
| putrid |
decomposed/foul-smelling |
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