• palliate make less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause
  • panacea a remedy for all diseases or ills
  • panache dash or flamboyance in style or action
  • paradigm a typical example or pattern of something
  • perdition a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation
  • perfidious deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
  • perfunctory carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection
  • peripeteia an abrupt turn of events or reversal of circumstances, esp. in literature
  • pernicious causing harm or ruin; injurious
  • pestilent destructive to life; deadly; poisonous
  • petulant childishly sulky or bad-tempered
  • plausible seeming reasonable or probable
  • pragmatic dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations
  • precipitous dangerously high or steep
  • pretext a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason
  • prognosticate foretell or prophesy
  • promulgate promote or make widely known
  • propitious giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable
  • pugnacious combative; quarrelsome
  • pusillanimous showing a lack of courage or determination; timid
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