Quizlet SAT words from 'oversee' to 'paramour'

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  1. oversee: To superintend.
  2. overseer: A supervisor.
  3. overshadow: To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
  4. overstride: To step beyond.
  5. overthrow: To vanquish an established ruler or government.
  6. overtone: A harmonic.
  7. overture: An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
  8. overweight: Preponderance.
  9. pacify: To bring into a peaceful state.
  10. packet: A bundle, as of letters.
  11. pact: A covenant.
  12. pagan: A worshiper of false gods.
  13. pageant: A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
  14. palate: The roof of the mouth.
  15. palatial: Magnificent.
  16. paleontology: The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
  17. palette: A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
  18. palinode: A retraction.
  19. pall: To make dull by satiety.
  20. palliate: To cause to appear less guilty.
  21. pallid: Of a pale or wan appearance.
  22. palpable: perceptible by feeling or touch.
  23. palsy: Paralysis.
  24. paly: Lacking color or brilliancy.
  25. pamphlet: A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
  26. pamphleteer: To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
  27. Pan-American: Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
  28. panacea: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
  29. pandemic: Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
  30. pandemonium: A fiendish or riotous uproar.
  31. panegyric: A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
  32. panel: A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
  33. panic: A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
  34. panoply: A full set of armor.
  35. panorama: A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
  36. pantheism: The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
  37. Pantheon: A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
  38. pantomime: Sign-language.
  39. pantoscope: A very wide-angled photographic lens.
  40. papacy: The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
  41. papyrus: The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
  42. parable: A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
  43. paradox: A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
  44. paragon: A model of excellence.
  45. parallel: To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
  46. parallelism: Essential likeness.
  47. paralysis: Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
  48. paralyze: To deprive of the power to act.
  49. paramount: Supreme in authority.
  50. paramour: One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.