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Quibble

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To argue over insignificant and irrelevant details

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Quiescent

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Inactive; still

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Qualm

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Sudden feeling of faintness or nausea; uneasy feeling about the rightness of actions

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Qualified

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Limited, restricted

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Quail

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Cower (crouch down in fear)

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Quagmire

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Marsh; difficult situation

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly

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Purport

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Profess, suppose, claim

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Pungent

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Sharp or strong in smell or taste; penetrating, caustic; to the point

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Prohibitive

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So high as to prevent the purchase or use of

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Propensity

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Inclination, tendency

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Propitiate

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To win over, appease

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Libation

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Pouring out a drink as offering to a deity

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Contagion

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Spread of a harmful idea or practice (or disease)

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Propriety

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Correct conduct; fitness

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Proscribe

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To condemn, forbid, outlaw

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Provident

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Providing future needs, frugal

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Punctilious

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Careful in observing rules if behaviour or ceremony

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Premonition

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Forewarning, presentiment

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Presage

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To foretell, indicate in advance

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Presumptuous

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Rude, improperly bold, readiness to presume

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Preternatural

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Beyond the normal course of nature; supernatural

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Prevaricate

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To quibble; evade the truth

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Pristine

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Uncorrupted

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Probity

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Honesty; high-mindedness

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Prodigal

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Wasteful, extravagant, lavish

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Prate

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To talk idly, chatter

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Prattle

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Meaningless, foolish talk

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Preamble

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Preliminary statement

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Precarious

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Uncertain

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Precept

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Principle, law

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Precipitate

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To cause to happen, throw down from a height

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Precursor

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Forerunner, predecessor

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Preempt

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To supersede, to appropriate for oneself

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Prehensile

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Capable of grasping

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Platitude

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Stale, overused expression

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Platonic

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Spiritual, w/I sensual desire

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Plethora

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Excess, overabundance