| paean | song of praise or triumph |
| palate | roof of the mouth sense of taste |
| palatial | magnificent |
| palliate | lessen the severity of |
| palpability | can be felt touched understood |
| palpitate | tremble beat rapidly and irregularly |
| panegyric | formal praise eulogy |
| paradigm | a model example or pattern |
| parenthesis | sentence within another one something separated |
| pariah | an outcast a rejected and despised person |
| parley | negotiation, discussion between enemies |
| parsimonious | too economical miserly |
| partisan | one- sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced |
| patron | regular customer person who gives support |
| paucity | scarcity a lacking of |
| peccadillo | small sin small weakness in one's character |
| pedantic | bookish showing off learning |
| pedestrian | commonplace trite unremarkable |
| pellucid | transparent easy to understand |
| penchant | strong inclination a liking |
| penitent | feeling or showing regret |
| penurious | poor/stingy |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| peregrination | traveling about wandering |
| peremptory | urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate |
| perfidious | treacherous faithless |
| perfidy | treachery breaking of faith |
| perfunctory | done as a duty without care |
| perilous | dangerous |
| peripatetic | wandering |
| perish | be destroyed decay |
| perjury | willful FALSE statement unlawful act |
| permeate | spread into every part of |
| pernicious | harmful injurious |
| perpetrate | be guilty commit (a crime) |
| personable | pleasing in appearance attractive |
| perspicacity | quick judging and understanding |
| pertain | belong as a part have reference |
| pest | destructive thing or a person who is nuisance |
| petrified | taken away power (to think feel act) |
| petrify | to make hard rocklike |
| petrous | like a rock hard stony |
| petulant | unreasonably impatient |
| philistine | a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge |
| phlegmatic | calm sluggish temperament unemotional |
| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| pied | of mixed colors |
| pinch | be too tight take between the thumb and finger |
| pine | waste away through sorrow or illness |
| pious | dutiful to parents devoted to religion |
| piquant | agreeably pungent stimulating |
| pique | hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity) |
| pitfall | covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger |
| pith | essential part force soft liquid substance |
| pivotal | of great importance (others depend on it) |
| placate | soothe pacify calm |
| plaintive | mournful melancholy sorrowful |
| plaque | flat metal on a wall as a memorial |
| platitude | a trite or banal statement unoriginality |
| plea | request |
| plead | address a court of law as an advocate |
| plethora | glut |
| pliant | pliable easily bent shaped or twisted |
| plod | continue doing something without resting |
| pluck | pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers) |
| plumb | get to the root of |
| plummet | fall plunge steeply |
| plunge | move quickly suddenly and with force |
| poignant | deeply moving keen |
| poncho | large piece of cloth |
| ponderous | heavy bulky dull |
| portent | omen marvelous threatening |
| precarious | uncertain risky dangerous |
| precepts | rules establishing standards of conduct |
| preclude | prevent make impossible |
| precursory | preliminary anticipating |
| predilection | special liking mental preference |
| predominate | have more power than others |
| preen | tidy/show self-satisfaction |
| premature | doing or happening something before the right time |
| preponderance | greatness in number strength weight |
| presage | warning sign |
| presumption | arrogance |
| preternatural | not normal or usual |
| prevalent | common |
| prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth |
| prim | neat formal |
| pristine | primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated |
| probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle |
| proclivity | inclination |
| procrastination | keeping on putting off |
| prodigal | wasteful reckless with money |
| prodigious | enormous wonderful |
| profane | worldly having contempt for God |
| profligacy | shameless immorality |
| profligate | wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant |
| profundity | depth |
| profuse | abundant/lavish |
| proliferate | grow reproduce by rapid multification |
| prolix | tiring because too long |
| prone | prostrate inclined to (undesirable things) |
| propagation | increasing the number spreading extending |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
| propitiatory | conciliatory appeasing mitigating |
| propitious | auspicious presenting favorable circumstances |
| prosaic | everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian |
| proscribe | denounce as dangerous |
| protracted | prolonged |
| provident | frugal looking to the future |
| provisional | of the present time only |
| provoke | make angry vax |
| prudence | careful forethought |
| prudish | easily shocked excessively modest |
| prune | dried plum silly person |
| pry | get something inquire too curiously |
| pucker | wrinkle |
| pugnacious | fond of in the habit of fighting |
| puissance | strength |
| punctilious | precise paying attention to trivialities |
| pundit | pedant authority on a subject |
| pungency | sharpness stinging quality |
| purvey | provide supply |
| pusillanimous | cowardly craven |
| putrefaction | becoming rotten |
| pyre | large pile of wood for burning |
