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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 patent | adj - obvious |
| paternal | adj - fatherly; fatherlike |
| pathology | n - the science of diseases |
| patriarch | n - the male head of a family or tribe |
| patrician | n - a person of noble birth; an aristocrat |
| patronize | v - to treat as an inferior; to condescend to |
| paucity | n - scarcity |
| peccadillo | n - a minor offense |
| pedantic | adj - boringly scholarly or academic |
| pedestrian | adj - unimaginative; banal |
| pejorative | adj - negative; disparaging |
| penchant | n - a strong like or liking for something; a predilection |
| penitent | adj - sorry; repentant; contrite |
| pensive | adj - thoughtful and sad |
| peremptory | adj - final; categorical; dictatorial |
| perennial | adj - continual; happening again and again year after year |
| perfidy | n - treachery |
| perfunctory | adj - unenthusiastic; careless |
| peripatetic | adj - wandering; traveling continually; itinerant |
| periphery | n - the outside edge of something |
| perjury | n - lying under oath |
| permeate | v - to spread or seep through; to penetrate |
| pernicious | adj - deadly; extremely evil |
| perquisite | n - a privilege that goes along with a job; a "perk" |
| pertinent | adj - relevant; dealing with the matter at hand |
| perturb | v - to disturb greatly |
| peruse | v - to read carefully |
| pas/pat/path | feeling, suffering, disease |
| pater/patr | father, support |
| ped/pod | foot |
| pen/pun | to pay, to compensate |
| per | completely, wrong |
| peri | around |
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