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Pilfer

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To steal in small amounts

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Pigment

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颜料

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Pillory

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被示众嘲弄

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Pinnacle

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The highest point of achievement

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Pinpoint

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Located with extreme precision

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Piquant

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Spicy, provocative

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Pique

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To arouse anger

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Pithy

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Precisely meaningful, forth full and brief

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Pittance

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A small allownance

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Pixel

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像素

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Placate

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To soothe by concession 通过让步平息抚慰

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Placebo

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安慰剂

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Plagiarize

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To steal the ideas of another and pass off as one’s own

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Plasticity

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Capacity of being molded or altered

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Plateau

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A relatively stable period

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Platitude

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陈词滥调

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Plausible

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Superficially reasonable but often specious

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Pleat

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Fold,打褶

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Plentitude

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An abundance

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Plethora

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Excess,abundance

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Pliable

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Supple enough to bend freely without breaking

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Pliant

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顺从的

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Plight

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A bad and unfortunate situation

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Plodding

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To walk heavily or slowly

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Pluck

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Daring in the face of difficulty

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Plumb

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用铅锤测定深度，exactly vertical

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Plummet

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To decline suddenly

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Plump

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Chubby, fat

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Plunge

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To descend suddenly 突然下降

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Plutocracy

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Government by the wealthy

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Podiatrist

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足病医生

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Polemic

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A controversial argument

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Polished

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Cultured

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Politic

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精明能干的

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Pollster

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民意测验专家

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Pompous

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浮夸的，傲慢的

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Ponderable

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Considerable enough to be assessed值得考虑的

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Ponderous

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Of very great weight

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Pontificate

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To speak in a pompous or dogmatic way

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Porous

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多孔可渗透的

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Portentous

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Full of unspecifiable significance

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Poseur

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An insincere person

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Posit

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To assume as true

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Posture

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To assume a pretended attitude故作姿态

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Potable

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Suitable for drinking

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Potboiler

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粗制滥造的文艺作品

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Potentate

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One who has power to rule over others

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Potentials

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To make more active

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Pout

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噘嘴

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Practitioner

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One who practices a profession

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Prairie

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大草原

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Prate

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To talk long and idly

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Preach

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布道

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Precarious

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Dangerously lacking in stability

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Precedent

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An earlier occurrence of something similar

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Precipice

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悬崖

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Precipitate

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To cause to happen

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Precipitation

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降水

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Precipitous

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非常陡峭的

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Preclude

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To make impossible, prevent

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Predecessor

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前任，先辈

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Predilection

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爱好

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Preeminent

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Having paramount rank,outstanding

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Preempt

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取得优先权

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Preen

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整理羽毛，打扮

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Preface

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序言

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Pregnant

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Full of meaning

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Premeditate

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To think beforehand

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Preoccupation

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Extreme concern with something

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Preponderant

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Having superior importance

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Prepossessing

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Pleasing

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Preposterous

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Contrary to nature , common sense, absurd

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Presage

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预言

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Prescience

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Foresight

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Prescription

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处方

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Preservative

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防腐剂

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Prestige

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The level of respect

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Presumptuous

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放肆的，冒昧的

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Pretense

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The act of pretending

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Preternatural

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Surpassing the normal

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Prevail

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To be greater in strength

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Prevalent

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Widely or commonly occurring

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Prevaricate

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To stay from or evade the truth

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Primordial

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Original

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Primp

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To dress in a careful manner

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