SAT "P" words (Large collection)

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More than 150 "P" Words from SAT books
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  1. pacifist
    someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
  2. paean
    a hymn of praise
  3. painstaking
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  4. palatable
    acceptable to the taste or mind
  5. palatial
    relating to or being a large and stately residence
  6. palette
    a board on which an artist mixes paints
  7. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  8. palliate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
  9. pallid
    pale, as of a person's complexion
  10. palpable
    capable of being perceived
  11. paltry
    contemptibly small in amount or size
  12. panacea
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
  13. panache
    distinctive and stylish elegance
  14. pandemic
    existing everywhere
  15. panegyric
    formally expressing praise
  16. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  17. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  18. paragon
    a perfect embodiment of a concept
  19. paramount
    more important than anything else; supreme
  20. pare
    strip the skin off
  21. pariah
    a person who is rejected from society or home
  22. parity
    functional equality
  23. parochial
    relating to or supported by or located in a parish
  24. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  25. parry
    impede the movement of
  26. parsimony
    extreme stinginess
  27. partial
    being or affecting only a segment
  28. partial
    showing favoritism
  29. partisan
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  30. passive
    lacking in energy or will
  31. patent
    a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  32. pathogenic
    able to cause disease
  33. pathology
    the branch of medical science that studies diseases
  34. pathos
    a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow
  35. patrician
    a person of refined upbringing and manners
  36. patronize
    provide support for
  37. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  38. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  39. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  40. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  41. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  42. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
  43. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  44. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  45. penultimate
    next to the last
  46. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  47. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  48. perceptive
    of or relating to awareness via the senses
  49. perfidious
    tending to betray
  50. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  51. periodic
    happening or recurring at regular intervals
  52. peripheral
    on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary
  53. perjury
    criminal offense of making false statements under oath
  54. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
  55. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  56. perpetuate
    cause to continue or prevail
  57. perplex
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  58. perspicacity
    the ability to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
  59. pert
    characterized by a lightly saucy or impudent quality
  60. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  61. perturb
    disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried
  62. perusal
    the act of examining or reading carefully
  63. pervasive
    spreading or spread throughout
  64. pessimism
    a general disposition to expect the worst in all things
  65. petty
    small and of little importance
  66. petulance
    an irritable feeling
  67. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  68. phalanx
    any closely ranked crowd of people
  69. phenomenon
    any state or process known through the senses
  70. philanthropic
    of or relating to charitable giving
  71. philanthropist
    someone who makes charitable donations
  72. philistine
    a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
  73. philology
    the humanistic study of language and literature
  74. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  75. pillage
    steal goods; take as spoils
  76. pinnacle
    a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
  77. pious
    having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
  78. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  79. pitfall
    an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
  80. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  81. pittance
    an inadequate payment
  82. pivotal
    being of crucial importance
  83. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  84. placebo
    an innocuous or inert medication
  85. placid
    calm and free from disturbance
  86. plagiarize
    take without referencing from someone's writing or speech
  87. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  88. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  89. plaudit
    enthusiastic approval
  90. plausible
    apparently reasonable, valid, or truthful
  91. plebeian
    of or associated with the great masses of people
  92. plenitude
    a full supply
  93. plethora
    extreme excess
  94. pliable
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  95. pliant
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  96. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult
  97. pluck
    pull lightly but sharply
  98. poignancy
    a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow
  99. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  100. polarize
    cause to divide into conflicting positions
  101. polemic
    a verbal or written attack, especially of a belief or dogma
  102. polemical
    of or involving dispute or controversy
  103. politic
    marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
  104. polyglot
    a person who speaks more than one language
  105. pomp
    cheap or pretentious or vain display
  106. pomposity
    lack of elegance from being puffed up with vanity
  107. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  108. pore
    any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid
  109. porous
    full of holes
  110. portent
    a sign of something about to happen
  111. portentous
    of momentous or ominous significance
  112. posit
    take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
  113. potable
    suitable for drinking
  114. potent
    having or wielding force or authority
  115. potentate
    a powerful ruler, especially one who is unconstrained by law
  116. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  117. prattle
    speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
  118. precarious
    not secure; beset with difficulties
  119. precedent
    an example that is used to justify similar occurrences
  120. precept
    a rule of personal conduct
  121. precipice
    a very steep cliff
  122. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  123. precipitous
    extremely steep
  124. preclude
    make impossible, especially beforehand
  125. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  126. predator
    any animal that lives by preying on other animals
  127. predecessor
    one who goes before you in time
  128. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
  129. preponderance
    exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight
  130. preposterous
    inviting ridicule
  131. presage
    a foreboding about what is about to happen
  132. prescient
    perceiving the significance of events before they occur
  133. prescribe
    issue commands or orders for
  134. prestidigitation
    manual dexterity in the execution of tricks
  135. prestige
    a high standing achieved through success or influence
  136. presumptuous
    going beyond what is appropriate, permitted, or courteous
  137. pretense
    the act of giving a false appearance
  138. pretentious
    creating an appearance of importance or distinction
  139. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  140. prevalent
    most frequent or common
  141. primeval
    having existed from the beginning
  142. privation
    the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights
  143. probity
    complete and confirmed integrity
  144. problematic
    making great mental demands
  145. proclivity
    a natural inclination
  146. procrastinate
    waste time or postpone doing what one should be doing
  147. procure
    get by special effort
  148. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  149. prodigious
    great in size, force, extent, or degree
  150. prodigy
    an unusually gifted or intelligent person
  151. profane
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
  152. proffer
    present for acceptance or rejection
  153. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  154. profound
    situated at or extending to great depth
  155. profuse
    produced or growing in extreme abundance
  156. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
  157. progenitor
    an ancestor in the direct line
  158. proliferate
    grow rapidly
  159. proliferation
    a rapid increase in number
  160. prolific
    intellectually productive
  161. prologue
    an introductory section of a novel or other literary work
  162. prominence
    the state of being widely known or eminent
  163. promulgate
    state or announce
  164. propagate
    multiply through reproduction
  165. propensity
    a natural inclination
  166. prophetic
    foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
  167. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
  168. propriety
    correct behavior
  169. prosaic
    lacking wit or imagination
  170. proscribe
    command against
  171. prostrate
    stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
  172. protean
    taking on different forms
  173. protract
    lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
  174. provincial
    associated with an administrative district of a nation
  175. provisional
    under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
  176. provocative
    serving or tending to excite or stimulate
  177. prowess
    a superior skill learned by study and practice
  178. proximity
    the property of being close together
  179. proxy
    a person authorized to act for another
  180. prudence
    discretion in practical affairs
  181. prudent
    marked by sound judgment
  182. prurient
    characterized by lust
  183. pseudonym
    a fake name used to engage in some activity
  184. puerile
    displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  185. pugilist
    someone who fights with fists for sport
  186. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  187. pugnacity
    a natural disposition to be hostile
  188. puissant
    powerful
  189. pulchritude
    physical beauty, especially of a woman
  190. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  191. punctual
    acting or arriving exactly at the time appointed
  192. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
  193. pungent
    strong and sharp to the sense of taste or smell
  194. punitive
    inflicting punishment
  195. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  196. purse
    a container used for carrying money and small personal items
  197. putrid
    of or relating to the process of decay
  198. purist
    someone who insists on great precision and correctness
Created on Sun Nov 18 14:16:26 EST 2012 (updated Thu Jan 10 13:04:36 EST 2013)

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