| Term | Definition |
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| palliate | to make a disease or an illness less painful or unpleasant |
| panacea | a remedy for all diseases,a cure-all |
| pandemic | a disease that spreads over a whole region,wide spread |
| pandemonium | babel,noise,racket |
| panegyric | laudatory,acclamatory |
| panoply | a complete and magnificent array |
| paragon | model of perfection or excellence |
| paranoia | irrational suspicion |
| pariah | person rejected by others,outcast |
| parlance | manner of speaking or writing |
| parochial | narrow in outlook,insular,sectional |
| paroxysm | sudden outburst as of laughter,rage |
| parsimonious | to be very stingy |
| passe | out-of-date,old-fashioned |
| peccadillo | minor or petty sin,slight fault |
| peculation | theft,misappropriation of public funds |
| pecuniary | related to money,monetary |
| pedagogue | a teacher,an educator |
| pedantic | too concerned with unimportant details especially with academic subjects |
| pejorative | disparaging,derogatory |
| penchant | inclination,propensity,affinity |
| penitent | repentant,sorrowful,contrite |
| penury | extreme poverty,destitution |
| perdition | complete and irreparable loss,complete ruin |
| perfidious | treacherous,faithless |
| perfunctory | cursory,superficial,shallow |
| peripatetic | roaming,itinerant,roving |
| perjury | false statement,violation of an oath |
| pernicious | causing great injury,destruction,fatal |
| perspicacious | very keen,alert,shrewd |
| pertinacious | stubborn,persistent |
| philistine | a person does not like or understand art,literature,music |
| phlegmatic | a calm,stuggish temperament |
| pithy | terse and full of substance, succinct |
| placate | to appease,pacify,mollify |
| plagiarize | to take(ideas, writings etc) from (another) and pass them off as one's own |
| plauditory | applauding |
| plenitude | abundance,plenty |
| polemic | argumentation |
| poltroon | coward |
| portend | to forecast,predict,omen |
| precocious | showing premature development |
| predilection | a preconceived liking |
| prehensile | capable of holding something |
| prescience | apparent knowledge of things before they happen |
| primeval | of a period in early history |
| pristine | in perfect condition,immaculate |
| privy | aware of |
| probity | uprightness,integrity |
| proclivity | a natural tendency or inclination,usually a bad one |
| prodigious | enormous,huge or amazing |
| profligate | extremely wasteful |
| prognostication | prediction,forecast |
| proliferate | to increase rapidly |
| propensity | a natural inclination,bent |
| prophylactic | preventing or guarding against disease |
| propitiate | conciliate,appease |
| prosaic | dull and not showing any imagination |
| proscribe | to forbid |
| proselytize | to try to persuade others to accept different religion or beliefs |
| protean | very changeable,versatile |
| protege | person receiving protection and support from a patron |
| provenance | origin or source of something |
| puerile | childish,suitable for a child rather than a adult |
| pugilist | a boxer |
| pugnacity | combativeness,aggression,belligerence,hostility |
| puissant | powerful,strong |
| pulchritude | physical beauty |
| purgatory | a place of temporary punishment,expiation or remorse,state of suffering |
| pusillanimous | frightened,cowardly |
| putrid | decaying and therefore smelling very bad,rotten |
| quagmire | wet,boggy ground,a difficult or inextricable position |
| quandary | dilemma,perplexity |
| querulous | complaining,whining |
| quiescent | inactive,inert |
| quintessence | the perfect example |
| quixotic | imaginative ideas or plans |
| quotidian | ordinary,common,daily |
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