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  1. Pacifist – peace lover or peace maker
  2. Paean – song of praise or joy
  3. Palatable – agreeable, pleasing to taste
  4. Pall – funeral cloth, dark cloud of smoke and dust
  5. Pallid – pale
  6. Palpitate – beat rapidly (heart), shake, tremble
  7. Palliate – ease pain, make less severe
  8. Palpable – tangible, visible
  9. Pan – criticize harshly
  10. Panacea – heal-all, cure all
  11. Panache – flair, flamboyance
  12. Pandemonium – a situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion
  13. Panegyric – formal praise
  14. Pantomime – acting without dialogue
  15. Pander – satisfy, fulfill
  16. Parable – a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson
  17. Paramour – a lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person.
  18. Pariah – untouchable, outcast
  19. Parlance – a particular way of speaking or using words
  20. Paley – negotiation, conference, discussion
  21. Parochial – narrow minded
  22. Paroxysm – fit, attack of pain
  23. Parsimony – meanness, quality of being careful with money or resources
  24. Passe – out of date, unfashionable
  25. Peccadillo – slight offense
  26. Penance – self imposed punishment for sin
  27. Penitent – repentant, feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong
  28. Pensive – thoughtful
  29. Penury – severe poverty
  30. Percussion – striking one object against another sharply
  31. Perdition – destruction
  32. Peregrination – wanderings, journey
  33. Peremptory – irreversible, final, insisting on immediate attention
  34. Perfunctory – superficial
  35. Peripatetic – nomadic, traveling, wandering
  36. Perjury – the offence of willfully telling an untruth
  37. Pernicious – very destructive
  38. Perpetrate – commit an offense
  39. Perpetuate – make something last, preserve from extinction
  40. Pertinent – relevant, appropriate
  41. Peruse – examine or read carefully and thoroughly
  42. Pervasive – spread throughout
  43. Perverse –awkward, disobedient, unreasonable
  44. Perversion – corruption
  45. Pestle – a heavy tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding substances, typically in a mortar
  46. Phlegmatic – calm
  47. Piecemeal – slowly, gradually
  48. Pied – having two or more different colors
  49. Pillage – plunder
  50. Pillory –attack, criticize
  51. Pique – a feeling of irritation or resentful
  52. Pith –essence of something, the spongy white tissue lining the rind of oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits
  53. Pittance – a small allowance or wage
  54. Placebo – a pill or substance that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no physical effect on the patient
  55. Plagiarize – steal another’s ideas and pass then off as one’s own
  56. Plaintive – sad, mournful
  57. Plenary – complete, full
  58. Pliable – flexible, adaptable
  59. Pliant – flexible, easily influenced
  60. Plight – condition, state
  61. Plucky – courage
  62. Plumb – exactly, precisely
  63. Politic – wise, sensible, judicious
  64. Portly – short
  65. Posterity – descendants or future generations of people
  66. Pragmatic – practical
  67. Prattle – babble
  68. Precarious – uncertain
  69. Precept – practical rule
  70. Preclude – make impossible
  71. Precursor – forefather or father, parent, ancestor
  72. Predicament – trick or dangerous situation
  73. Preempt – prevent, seize, acquire, forestall, take
  74. Preen – make oneself tidy
  75. Prelude – introduction
  76. Premonition – a strong feeling that something unpleasant is about to happen
  77. Preponderance – dominance, superiority or excess in number or quantity
  78. Preposterous –foolish, comical, ridiculous
  79. Prerogative – a right or privilege, advantage
  80. Prescience – ability to foretell the future
  81. Pretext – excuse
  82. Prevaricate – lie
  83. Pristine –clean, in original condition, spotless
  84. Privation – hardship
  85. Probity – honesty, morality
  86. Prodigal – wasteful
  87. Profligate – wasteful, spendthrift, extravagant, corrupt, unprincipled
  88. Profound – very intense ( state, emotion, quality), having great knowledge ( of person or statement)
  89. Profusion – abundance, a large quantity of something
  90. Progeny – children, offspring
  91. Promiscuous – immoral, indiscriminate
  92. Propensity – natural inclination
  93. Propitiate – appease
  94. Proponent – supporter, backer
  95. Propound – put forth for analysis
  96. Prosaic – uninspired, ordinary, usual, dull
  97. Proscenium – part of a theatre stage in front of the curtain
  98. Protean – versatile
  99. Protégé – person receiving support
  100. Provender – animal food
  101. Provenance – origin or source
  102. Prude – excessively modest
  103. Pry – enquire impertinently into person’s private affairs
  104. Pulchritude – very beautiful
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