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Peremptory
Final; categorical; dictatorial
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Perennial
Continual, happening again and again or year after year
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Perfunctory
Unenthusiastic, careless
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Periphery
The outside edge of something
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Permeate
To spread or seep through, to penetrate
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Pernicious
Deadly, extremely evil
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Perquisite
A privilege that goes along with a job, a perk
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Pertinent
Relevant, dealing with the matter at hand
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Perturb
To disturb greatly
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Pervade
To spread throughout
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Petulant
Rude, cranky, ill-tempered
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Philanthropy
Love of mankind
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Philistine
A smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or artistic matters
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Pious
Reverent or devout, outfly, and sometimes falsely, reverent or devout. Hypocritical.
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Placate
To pacify, to appease, to soothe
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Plaintive
Expressing sadness or sorrow
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Platitude
A dull or trite remark, a cliché
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Plebeian
Common, vulgar, low class, bourgeois
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Poignant
Painfully emotional, extremely moving, sharp or astute
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Polarize
To break up into opposing factions or groupings
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Polemic
A powerful argument often made to attack or refute a controversial issue
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Ponderous
So large as to be clumsy, massive, dull
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Portent
An omen, a sign of something coming in the future
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Postulate
Something accepted as true without proof, and axiom
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Pragmatic
Practical, down to earth, based on experience rather than theory
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Precedent
An earlier example or model of something
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Precept
A rule to live by, a principle establishing a certain kind of action or behavior, a maxim
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Precipitate
- To cause to happen abruptly
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