- oscillate: To swing back and forth.
- palate: The roof of the mouth.
- pallid: Of a pale or wan appearance.
- palpable: perceptible by feeling or touch.
- paradox: A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
- paragon: A model of excellence.
- paroxysm: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
- parsimonious: Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
- paucity: Fewness.
- peccant: Guilty.
- pecuniary: Consisting of money
- perfidy: Treachery.
- pernicious: Tending to kill or hurt.
- persevere: To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
- pertinacious: Persistent or unyielding.
- phlegmatic: Not easily roused to feeling or action.
- pillage: Open mobbery, as in war
- placate: To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
- plenary: Entire.
- plurality: A majority.
- pneumatic: Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
- precipice: A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
- premonition: Foreboding.
- preposterous: Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
- prerogative: Having superior rank or precedence.
- presage: To foretell.
- pristine: Primitive.
- probity: Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
- profligacy: Shameless viciousness.
- propitious: Kindly disposed.
- propriety: Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
- protuberant: Bulging.
- pseudonym: A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer.
- purloin: To steal.
- quadrate: To divide into quarters.
- qualm: A fit of nausea.
- quandary: A puzzling predicament.
- quay: A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
- querulous: Habitually complaining
- quiescence: Quiet.
- raillery: Good-humored satire.
- rancor: Malice.
- rapacious: Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
- recapitulate: To repeat again the principal points of.
- reciprocal: Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
- recluse: One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
- redolent: Smelling sweet and agreeable
- refute: To prove to be wrong.
- relent: To yield.