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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