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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 |