- 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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