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appease | To make peace with someone in an unwise way (giving in to keep the peace) |
pact | Formal agreement between individuals/parties (for peace) |
panorama | Unbroken view of a whole region surrounding an observer, picture with a wide view |
panacea | Remedy for all diseases/difficulties |
panegyric | Public speech/text in praise of someone/thing |
pantheon | All the things in a category, all the gods (for a building, alter for all gods) |
panoply | complete/impressive collection/display of things |
pandemic | Widespread disease (whole country/world) |
par | Score you should stay even with |
parity | Condition of being equal |
apartheid | Without equalness/systemic unequalness |
disparate | different/unlike |
disparage | Belittle, to regard/represent as being of little worth |
parallel | alongside |
parasite | Organism that lives within another to take nutrients from it |
paradox | Statement that is absurd yet holds some truth upon examination |
paragon | Perfect example of a particular quality (person/thing) |
parable | Simple story used to illustrate a moral/spiritual lesson |
paradigm | Model - typical example/pattern of something |
paramilitary | Organized similar to a military force |
paranoid | |
paranormal | Events beyond normal scientific understanding |
parapsychology | Study of inexplicable mental phenomena - telepathy/hypnosis |
paralegal | Person trained in some legal matters that can’t act as a lawyer - they help the lawyer though |
apathy | Without emotion |
sympathy | Feeling of pity/sorrow |
empathy | Sharing feelings |
antipathy | Aversion, deep-seated feeling of dislike |
pathology | Study of disease |
sociopath | Very strangely antisocial person, emotionless on the outside |
psychopath | Person who is evil, doesn’t share human emotion and is bad |
dispassionate | Have no emotions about it, not biased
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impassive | Not feeling/showing emotion |
patron | sponsor/customer |
patronize | Treat in a way that is helpful but is out of a feeling of superiority |
paternal | Showing kindness/care associated with a father |
paternalism | policy/practice of an authority figure restricting freedom/responsibilities of subordinates for the subordinates’ best interests |
expatriate | Live out of your fatherland |
patrimony | Property inherited from a father |
patriarch | Male head of a family/tribe |
patrician | nobleman |
paucity | scarcity |
pauper | Very poor person |
puerile | Childishly silly/trivial |
pusillanimous | timid |
Pedagogue | Person who teaches children |
pedagogy | Planning the words/lessons of children |
pediatrician | Medical person focused on children’s diseases |
podiatrist | Person who treats feet ailments |
expedite | Speed up |
expedient | Something gets you quickly to a solution/out of the problem (so you’re on your feet) |
impede | hinder |
impediment | Block to your feet |
penal | Disciplinary (used to describe punishment for legal offenders) |
punitive | inflicting/intending as punishment penal |
penance | Atonement - self-punishment |
penitent | Feeling sorrow/regret for wrongdoing |
penitentiary | Prison for serious criminal offenders |
impunity | Do something without punishment/knowing you won’t be punished - I know no one will hold me accountable, so I’ll just ball |
expend | spend/use up |
stipend | allowance |
expenditure | Spending - action of spending funds |
propensity | tendency |
pensive | thoughtful |
impending | Hanging over your head (metaphorically) |
appendix | sac attached/opening to lower end of the large intestine Section of matter at the end of a book |
append | Add something |
appendage | addition/projecting part of a living organism |
ponderous | Slow and clumsy due to weight labrious |
perforate | Pierce and make a hole/holes in |
perspire | To sweat |
peruse | to read carefully |
pervade | Spread through, permeate/fill |
perturb | Make someone anxious, to worry someone |
perfunctory | (describing an action) carried out with minimum effort, hasty |
perspicacious | Having ready insight into/understanding of things |
permeate | Spread throughout |
pernicious | Having a harmful effect in a gradual/subtle way |
perennial | lasting/existing for a long time, continually recurring |
peremptory | Insisting on immediate attention/obedience |
pertinacious | Holding firmly on an opinion/course of action, persistent |
periscope | Thing used to see things out of sight (thing in a submarine) |
peripatetic | walking around |
appetite | what u have a goal for |
perpetual | goal is throughout, always happening |
impetuous | acting/done quickly without thought, impulsive |
petulant | Childishly band-tempered |
propitious | favorable |
philosophy | love of wisdom |
philatelist | Person who collects/studies stamps/postal materials |
paradigm | A model of something (example/pattern) |
paramilitary | Organized similarly to a military force |
philology | Knowledge about languages |
bibliophile | collector/lover of books |
anglophile | Person who loves England/Britain |
Francophile | Person who loves france/the french |
euphony | Quality of being pleasing to the ear |
cacophony | chaotic sound |
placid | Not easily upset/excited, calm |
placebo | pill given to please, not cure |
placate | To make someone less hostile |
implacable | Unable to be calmed/pacified |
plethora | filled to the brim, more than ever needed |
replete | full/well stocked |
duplex | House divided into 2 apartments |
ply | Short for plywood OR layer of a folded/laminated material |
implicit | Implied, not plainly expressed |
implicate | fold someone into a crime, can’t be extricated |
duplicity | Deviousness, two-facedness |
complicity | State of being involved with others in wrongdoing |
supplicate | ask/beg for something earnestly/humbly |
explicate | To analyze and develop in detail, explain |
expound | present/explain a theory/idea systematically and in detail |
depose | Remove from office (their place) suddenly/forcefully |
proponent | Advocate, supporter |
repository | where u keep something |
transpose | putting melody into a different key, |
superimpose | Lay over another so that both are still evident (with images) |
porter | Carrier of luggage/loads |
deportment | how u carry yourself, behavior |
portmanteau | Large trunk/suitcase Word bending/combining (brunch) |
portly | Somewhat fat |
purport | Claim to be/do something, usually falsely (allegedly claiming to do something) |
disport | Frolic, enjoy oneself unrestrained |
importune | To harass persistently for something, to beg |
posthumous | occurring/coming into existence after a person’s death |
posterior | Rear, coming after in time/order |
posterity | All future generations of people |
ex post facto | comes out after the fact |
precarious | uncertain/unreliable - likely to collapse |
precocious | Advanced - used to describe a kid |
premeditate | Play an action - crime - beforehand |
premonition | Hunch that something - usually bad - will happen |
presage | To be a sign/warning that something bad will happen, an omen |
presentiment | Intuitive feeling about a bad future |
precept | General rule intended to regulate, a warrant |
precipitous | Dangerously high |
preclude | To prevent from happening |
predilection | Preference for something |
preeminent | greatest |
preempt | To prevent, to seize something beforehand |
prerogative | what u get to ask for beforehand, what ur entitled to |
impregnable | impenetrable |
reprehensible | deserving condemnation |
apprise | inform/tell someone |
apprehend | grab a criminal |
reprisal | Act of retaliation, a counterattack |