• terse sparing in the use of words; abrupt
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  • 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
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  • aleatory depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss
  • altruism unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
  • arcuate shaped like a bow; curved
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  • illation the act of inferring or drawing conclusions
  • impertinent rude; insolent
  • implore beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something
  • impudent improper; rude
  • incipient in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop
  • incisive clear; sharp; direct
  • inclement unpleasantly cold or wet
  • interminable endless
  • inculcate instill by persistent instruction
  • indurate to harden
  • irascible easy to anger
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  • canorous melodious; musical
  • capacious able to contain much
  • capitulate cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender
  • captious tending to find fault or raise petty objections
  • charlatan a person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge; a quack or fraud
  • concatenate to link together; unite in a series or chain
  • consternation feelings of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected
  • countenance a person's face or facial expression
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  • vacillant uncertain in purpose or action
  • vacuous having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless
  • vagrant a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
  • vanguard the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
  • vanquish come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
  • vapid lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  • vehemently showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense
  • venerate regard with feelings of respect and reverence
  • verbose using or containing too many words
  • verdure lush greenness of flourishing vegetation
  • verity an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth
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