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 Word Meaning with Alphabet "P"



  • Paean - Noun - Song of praise or triumph.
  • Palate - Noun - Roof of the mouth sense of taste.
  • Palatial - Adjective - Magnificent.
  • Palliate - Verb - Lessen the severity of.
  • Palpability - Adjective - Can be felt touched understood.
  • Palpitate - Verb - Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly.
  • Panegyric - Noun - Formal praise eulogy.
  • Paradigm - Noun - A model example or pattern.
  • Parenthesis - Noun - Sentence within another one smth separated.
  • Pariah - Noun - An outcast a rejected and despised person.
  • Parsimonious - Adjective - Too economical miserly.
  • Partisan - Noun - One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced.
  • Patron - Noun - Regular customer person who gives support.
  • Paucity - Noun - Scarcity a lacking of.
  • Peccadillo - Noun - Small sin small weakness in one's character.
  • Pedantic - Adjective - Bookish showing off learning.
  • Pedestrian - Noun - Commonplace trite unremarkable.
  • Pellucid - Adjective - Transparent easy to understand.
  • Penchant - Noun - Strong inclination a liking.
  • Penitent - Adjective - Feeling or showing regret.
  • Penurious - Adjective - Poor/stingy.
  • Penury - Noun - Extreme poverty.
  • Peregrination - Noun - Traveling about wandering.
  • Peremptory - Adjective - Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate.
  • Perfidious - Adjective - Treacherous faithless.
  • Perfidy - Noun - Treachery breaking of faith.
  • Perfunctory - Adjective - Done as a duty without care.
  • Perilous - Adjective - Dangerous.
  • Peripatetic - Adjective - Wandering.
  • Perish - Adjective - Be destroyed decay.
  • Perjury - Noun - Willful false statement unlawful act.
  • Permeate - Verb - Spread into every part of.
  • Pernicious - Adjective - Harmful injurious.
  • Perpetrate - Verb - Be guilty commit (a crime).
  • Perplexing - Verb - To make complicated or confused, as a matter or question.
  • Personable - Adjective - Pleasing in appearance attractive.
  • Perspicacity - Noun - Quick judging and understanding.
  • Pertain - Verb - Belong as a part have reference.
  • Pest - Noun - Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance.
  • Petrified - Verb - Taken away power (to think feel act).
  • Petrify - Verb - To make hard rocklike.
  • Petrous - Adjective - Like a rock hard stony.
  • Petulant - Adjective - Unreasonably impatient.
  • Philistine - Noun - A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge.
  • Phlegmatic - Adjective - Calm sluggish temperament unemotional.
  • Picaresque - Adjective - Involving clever rogues or adventurers.
  • Pied - Adjective - Of mixed colors.
  • Pinch - Verb - Be too tight take between the thumb and finger.
  • Pine - Noun - Waste away through sorrow or illness.
  • Pious - Adjective - Dutiful to parents devoted to religion.
  • Piquant - Adjective - Agreeably pungent stimulating.
  • Pique - Verb - Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity).
  • Pitfall - Noun - Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger.
  • Pith - Noun - Essential part force soft liquid substance.
  • Pivotal - Adjective - Of great importance (others depend on it).
  • Placate - Verb - Soothe pacify calm.
  • Plaintive - Adjective - Mournful melancholy sorrowful.
  • Plaque - Noun - Flat metal on a wall as a memorial.
  • Platitude - Noun - A trite or banal statement unoriginality.
  • Plea - Noun - Request.
  • Plead - Verb - Address a court of law as an advocate.
  • Plethora - Noun - Glut.
  • Pliant - Adjective - Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted.
  • Plod - Verb - Continue doing smth without resting.
  • Pluck - Verb - Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. Flowers).
  • Plumb - Verb - Get to the root of.
  • Plummet - Noun - Fall plunge steeply.
  • Plunge - Verb - Move quickly suddenly and with force.
  • Poignant - Adjective - Deeply moving keen.
  • Poncho - Noun - Large piece of cloth.
  • Ponderous - Adjective - Heavy bulky dull.
  • Portent - Noun - Omen marvelous threatening.
  • Precarious - Adjective - Uncertain risky dangerous.
  • Precepts - Noun - Rules establishing standards of conduct.
  • Preclude - Verb - Prevent make impossible.
  • Precursory - Adjective - Preliminary anticipating.
  • Predilection - Noun - Special liking mental preference.
  • Predominate - Verb - Have more power than others.
  • Preen - Verb - Tidy/show self-satisfaction.
  • Premature - Adjective - Doing or happening smth before the right time.
  • Preponderance - Noun - Greatness in number strength weight.
  • Presage - Noun - Warning sign.
  • Prescription - Noun - A direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine.
  • Presumption - Noun - Arrogance.
  • Preternatural - Adjective - Not normal or usual.
  • Prevalent - Adjective - Common.
  • Prevaricate - Verb - To equivocate to stray from the truth.
  • Prim - Adjective - Neat formal.
  • Pristine - Adjective - Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated.
  • Probity - Noun - Uprightness incorruptibility principle.
  • Proclivity - Noun - Inclination.
  • Procrastination - Noun - Keeping on putting off.
  • Prodigal - Adjective - Wasteful reckless with money.
  • Prodigious - Adjective - Enormous wonderful.
  • Profane - Adjective - Worldly having contempt for god.
  • Profligacy - Noun - Shameless immorality.
  • Profligate - Adjective - Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant.
  • Profound - Adjective - Penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge.
  • Profundity - Noun - Depth.
  • Profuse - Adjective - Abundant/lavish.
  • Proliferate - Verb - Grow reproduce by rapid multification.
  • Prolix - Adjective - Tiring because too long.
  • Prone - Adjective - Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things).
  • Propagation - Noun - Increasing the number spreading extending.
  • Propinquity - Noun - Nearness in time or place affinity of nature.
  • Propitiatory - Adjective - Conciliatory appeasing mitigating.
  • Propitious - Adjective - Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances.
  • Prosaic - Adjective - Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian.
  • Proscribe - Verb - Denounce as dangerous.
  • Protracted - Verb - Prolonged.
  • Provident - Adjective - Frugal looking to the future.
  • Provisional - Adjective - Of the present time only.
  • Provoke - Verb - Make angry vax.
  • Prudence - Noun - Careful forethought.
  • Prudish - Adjective - Easily shocked excessively modest.
  • Prune - Noun - Dried plum silly person.
  • Pry - Verb - Get smth inquire too curiously.
  • Pucker - Noun - Wrinkle.
  • Pugnacious - Adjective - Fond of in the habit of fighting.
  • Puissance - Noun - Strength.
  • Punctilious - Adjective - Precise paying attention to trivialities.
  • Pundit - Noun - Pedant authority on a subject.
  • Pungency - Adjective - Sharpness stinging quality.
  • Purvey - Verb - Provide supply.
  • Pusillanimous - Adjective - Cowardly craven.
  • Putrefaction - Noun - Becoming rotten.
  • Pyre - Noun - Large pile of wood for burning.

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Word List Alphabetically


Astute - adjective - of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.

Burlesque - Noun - An artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.

Cloying - Adjective - Overly ingratiating or sentimental.

Demure - Adjective - characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.

Expurgate - Verb - to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

Fawning - Noun - a young deer, especially an unweaned one.

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