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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pachyderm | thick-skinned animal |
| palatable | AGREEABLE; pleasing to taste |
| palate | sense of taste |
| palatial | magnificent |
| palette | board on which a painter mixes pigments |
| palimpsest | parchment used for second time after original writing has been erased |
| pall | grow tiresome |
| pallet | small, poor bed |
| palliate | ease pain; make less severe or offensive |
| pallid | pale; WAN |
| palpable | easily perceptible; tangible |
| palpitate | throb; flutter |
| paltry | insignificant; trifling; petty |
| pan | criticize harshly |
| panacea | cure-all; remedy for all diseases |
| panache | flair; flamboyance |
| pander | cater to the low desires of others |
| parable | short, simple story teaching a moral |
| paradigm | model; example; pattern |
| parallelism | SIMILARITY; state of being parallel |
| parameter | LIMIT; independent variable |
| paramount | foremost in importance; supreme |
| paramour | illicit lover |
| paraphernalia | equipment; odds and ends |
| parasite | toady; sycophant |
| parched | extremely dry; very thirsty |
| pariah | social outcast |
| parity | equality; close resemblance |
| parlance | language; idiom |
| parley | conference |
| parochial | narrow in outlook; provincial; related to parishes |
| parish | a local church community |
| paroxysm | fit or attack of pain, laughter, rage |
| parry | ward off a blow; deflect; to defend yourself against someone who is attacking you by pushing their weapon or hand to one side; to avoid answering a question that is difficult to answer or that someone does not want to answer: |
| parsimony | stinginess; excessive frugality |
| partial | HAVING A LIKING FOR SOMETHING; incomplete |
| partiality | inclination; bias |
| partition | divide into parts |
| passe | old-fashioned; past the prime |
| pastiche | imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing |
| patent | open for the public to read; obvious |
| pity | pathos, pathetic |
| patina | green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting |
| patois | local or provincial dialect |
| patrician | noble; aristocratic |
| pauper | very poor person |
| peccadillo | slight offense |
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