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Parsimonious

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Cheap

Frugal

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Palliative

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Conciliatory

Soothing

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Patrician

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A member of the upper class

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Patronizing

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Condescending

Look down on others

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Paucity

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Dearth

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Pecuniary

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Monetary

Related to money

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Pedantic

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Neg conn

Showing off trivial book learning

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Penitent

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Contrite

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Penuruious

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1 In poverty

2 excessively frugal

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Penury

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Poverty

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Perfidious

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Treacherous

Tending to betray

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Pernicious

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Subtlety Harmful, you’re often not aware

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Pervasive

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Penetrating

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Pithy

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Full of meaning

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Placate

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Appease

Conciliate

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Plutocracy

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Rule by wealthy

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Poignant

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Pricks your emotions

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Polarize

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Divide into two groups.

V or A

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Portentous

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Describes an augur of an ominous future event.

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Potentate

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PO ten tate

Ruler not bound by the rules, omnipotent

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Preponderance

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  1. Plethora, great amount
  2. Superiority in wealth and influence
  3. Superiority in weight
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Prerogative

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The special right or privilege of a specific group.

Suffrage is prerogative of white males

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Prescience

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The power to Forsee the future

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Prevaricate

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V
To lie or mislead
To be intentionally ambiguous with regard to a lie

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Privation

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Deprivation
State of extreme poverty
Depriving someone else of necessities

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Profligate

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Prodigal
Waste money

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Prognosticate

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NOS

To predict

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Prolix

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LIX
Verbose
Goes on for too long–has too many words

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Propensity

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A natural tendency

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Propitious

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PIH
Auspicious
A favorable time to do something

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Proprietor

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Business owner

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Propriety

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Correct or apropos behavior

Think gender roles

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Prosaic

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Ordinary and dull

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Prostrate

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Lying face downward

Rendering someone defenseless

Throw yourself on the ground

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Protégé

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Proh tuh ZHEI

a person mentored by an expert

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Proverbial

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From fictional stories

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Prowess

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Exceptional skill or ability

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Puerile

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Immature. Puerile jokes about farting

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Pugilist

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Boxer.
Pugilism is fighting with fists

Pu JIL ist

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Pugnacious

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Ready to fight
Aggressive
Resorts to violence
(Use figuratively, mud slapping)

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Puissant

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PYU sent

Powerful, in position of authority

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Pusillanimous

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Coward like, lack of courage

Not laziness, but fear.

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