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| paramount | stringent | preponderate | cardinal | padrone |
| commandant | chieftain | preeminent | ||
| paranoia | paranoid | paraphrase | recapitualate | |
| parch | desiccate | shrivel | pare | |
| pariah | outcast | scapegoat | parity | parlance |
| parody | caricature | burlesque | travesty | |
| paroxysm | convulsion | freezy | rapture | tantrum |
| parish | parquet | parse | ||
| parsimony | penny-pitching | miserly | niggardly | avaricious |
| frugal | thrifty | chintzy | meager | |
| skimpy | penurious | penury(n.) | ||
| partisan | guerilla | sectarian | stalwart | zealot |
| passive | apathetic | docile | dormant | inert |
| lethargic | phlegmatic | quiescent | stoic | |
| stolid | sbumissive | |||
| pasteurize | ||||
| pastiche | hodgepodge | jumble | medley | olio |
| pastoral | agrarian | bucolic | idyllic | ecclesiastical |
| pathogen | pathological | pathology | ||
| patrician | aristocrat | |||
| patrimony | ancestry | bequeathal | endowment | |
| patriot | patriotism | chauvinist | jingoist | |
| patronage | aegis/egis | auspice | nepotism | |
| patronize | condescend | paucity | dearth | |
| pauchy | ||||
| pauper | almsman | destitute | indigent | insolvent |
| peccadillo | transgression | pedant | pedagogue | pedagogy |
| pedestal | anta | |||
| pedestrian | banal | humdrum | mundane | prosaic |
| pediatrics | peel | peer | peerless | |
| peeve | exasperate | irk | vex | |
| peeving | bilious | cantankerous | captious | carping |
| contentious | disgruntled | dyspeptic | fractious | fretful |
| huffy | irascible | obstinate | ornery | pettish |
| petulant | querulous | snappish | sullen | surly |
| touchy | waspish | |||
| pejorative | derogatory | disparaging | irreverent | slighting |
| pelf | loot | lucre | ||
| pell-mell | pandemonium | turmoil | haphazard | |
| pellucid | tanslucent | |||
| penance | absolution | atonement | compunction | contrition |
| penitent | mortification | remorse | repentance | expiation |
| penchant | partiality | affinity | predilection | |
| pendulum | penicillin | penetrate | pending | pennant |
| peninsula | cape | peninsula | chersonese | perch |
| percussion | percussionist | peregrination | penult | penultimate |
| peremptory | dictatorial | dogmatic | domineering | imperative |
| perennial | perfervid | perforate | ||
| perfidy | perfidious | disaffected | traitorous | treacherous |
| perfunctory | perfunctorily | cursory | indifferent | lackadaisical |
| peril | perilous | jeopardy | menace | |
| perimeter | periodical | ambulite | perambulite | peripatetic |
| peripheral | periphery | periscope | perish | perishing |
| perjure | perjury | suborn | forswear | |
| equivocate | prevaricate | |||
| permeable | porous | spongelike | penetrable | absorbent |
| permeate | infiltrate | imbue | drench | pervious |
| pernicious | baleful | baneful | deleterious | destructive |
| detrimental | malign | noxious | ||
| perpendicular | perpetual | perpetuate | persistence | |
| perquisite | appanage | gratuity | mockey | |
| persiflage | banter | chaffing | flippery | frivolity |
| perspicacious | perspicuous | perspicuity | peruse | perspire |
| pertain | pertinent | germane | apropos | apt |
| pertinacious | bullheaded | obstinate | tenacious | |
| pertinacious | bullheaded | obstinate | tenacious |