Smoking is pernicious to health

The foremost requisite of language development is vocabulary. Candidates attempting various competitive examinations are required to learn new words from various sources like newspapers, magazines, and books. Building good vocabulary is a need of every competitive exam. Memorization of words, proper understanding and usage in different contexts is essential to secure good scores in this section. The questions on Synonyms, Antonyms, One word substitution, and Idioms and Phrases can be answered easily if one builds up a rich stock of vocabulary. In this session let us get familiarized with a set of words starting with 'P'.
 palatial: Magnificent
   palliate: Lessen the severity of
    palpability:Can be felt, touched, understood
    palpitate: Tremble, beat rapidly and irregularly
    panegyric: Formal praise, eulogy
    Panacea: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
    Paroxysm: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
    paradigm: a model, example, or pattern
   parsimonious: Too economical, miserly
   partisan: One-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced
    patron: Regular customer; person who gives support
    paucity: Scarcity, a lacking of
    peccadillo-small sin; small weakness in one's character
    pedantic-bookish, showing off learning
   pedestrian: Commonplace, trite, unremarkable
   pellucid: Transparent, easy to understand
    penchant: Strong inclination, a liking
   penitent: Feeling or showing regret
   penury: Extreme poverty
    peregrination: Travelling about, wandering
    peremptory-urgent, imperative, unchallengeable, ending debate
    perennial: Lasting for a long time
    perfidious: Treacherous, faithless
   perfunctory-done as a duty without care
    perilous: Dangerous
    peripatetic: Wandering
   perish: Be destroyed; decay
    perjury: Willful false statement, unlawful act
   permeate: Spread into every part of
    pernicious: Harmful, injurious
    perpetrate: Be guilty; commit
   personable: Pleasing in appearance, attractive
    perspicacity: Quick judging and understanding
   pertain: Belong as a part, have reference
   pest: Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
    petrify: To make hard, rocklike
    petulant: Unreasonably impatient
    philistine: a smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge
    phlegmatic: Calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
   picaresque: Involving clever rogues or adventurers
    pied: Of mixed colors
    pious: Dutiful to parents; devoted to religion
    piquant: Agreeably pungent, stimulating
   pique: Hurt the pride or self-respect, stir (curiosity)
    pitfall: Covered hole as a trap, unsuspected danger
    pith: Essential part, force, soft liquid substance
    pivotal: Of great importance
    placate: Soothe, pacify, calm
    plaintive: Mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
    plaque: Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
   platitude: a trite or banal statement; unoriginality
    plea: Request
    plead: Address a court of law as an advocate
    plethora: Glut, excess
    pliant: Pliable,easily bent,shaped or twisted
    plod: Continue doing something without resting
    plumb: Get to the root of
   plummet: Fall, plunge, steeply
   plunge: Move quickly, suddenly and with force
    poignant: Deeply moving; keen
  poise: Be ready, be balanced, self-possession
    polemical: Controversial, argued
    ponderous: Heavy, bulky, dull
    portent: Omen; marvelous; threatening
    poseur: Someone taking on airs to impress others; a phony
    posture: State, attitude; adopt a vain
    poverty: State of being poor
    pragmatic: Practical, favoring utility
    precarious: Uncertain, risky, dangerous
   precept: Moral instruction precepts-rules establishing standards of conduct
    precipitate: Throw something violently down from a height
    preclude: Prevent, make impossible
    precursory: Preliminary, anticipating
   predilection-special liking, mental preference
    predominate: Have more power than others
    preempt: Obtain by preemption or in advance
    premature: Doing or happening something before the right time
    preponderance: Greatness in number, strength, weight
    presage: Warning sign
    preternatural: Not normal or usual
  prevalent: Common
    prevaricate: To equivocate, to stray from the truth
    prim: Neat; formal
    pristine: Primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier times, unadulterated
    probity: Uprightness, incorruptibility, principle
    proclivity-inclination
   procrastination-keeping on putting off
    prodigal: Wasteful, reckless with money
    prodigious: Enormous, wonderful
    profane: Worldly, having contempt for God
    profligate: Wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant
    profundity: Depth
    proliferate: Grow, reproduce by rapid multiplication
   prolix: Tiring because too long
    prone: inclined to
   propagation: Increasing the number, spreading, extending
    propinquity: Nearness in time or place, affinity of nature
   propitiate: Do something to take away the anger of
   propitiatory: Conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating
 propitious: Auspicious, presenting favorable circumstances
  prosaic: Everyday, mundane, commonplace, trite
   proscribe: Denounce as dangerous
   protracted: Prolonged
    provident: Frugal; looking to the future
   provisional: Of the present time only
  provoke: Make angry
    prudence: Careful forethought
  prudish: Easily shocked, excessively modest
  prune: Dried plum, silly person
    pry: inquire too curiously
  pugnacious: Fond of, in the habit of fighting
  punctilious: Precise, paying attention to trivialities
    pungency: Sharpness; stinging quality
        purvey: Provide, supply
    pusillanimous: Cowardly, craven