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| 1 | posture | (noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" (noun) position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war; "we faced an army of great strength"; "politicians have neglected our military posture" (noun) a rationalized mental attitude (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
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| 2 | poverty | (noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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| 3 | pragmatic | (adjective satellite) concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip" (adjective satellite) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics" (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
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| 4 | precarious | (adjective satellite) affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce" (adjective satellite) fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery" (adjective satellite) not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage" (adjective satellite) dangerously insecure; "a precarious footing on the ladder"
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| 5 | precept | (noun) a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" (noun) rule of personal conduct
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| 6 | precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles (verb) hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below" (verb) bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution" (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" (verb) fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" (adjective satellite) done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether
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| 7 | preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer" (verb) make impossible, especially beforehand
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| 8 | precursory | (adjective satellite) warning of future misfortune
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| 9 | predilection | (noun) a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" (noun) a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"
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| 10 | predominate | (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" (adjective satellite) having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism"
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| 11 | preempt | (verb) make a preemptive bid (verb) acquire by preemption
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| 12 | premature | (adjective satellite) uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end" (adjective satellite) too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment" (adjective) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; "a premature infant"
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| 13 | preponderance | (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale" (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount; "there is a preponderance of Blacks in our prisons" (noun) superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"
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| 14 | presage | (noun) a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" (noun) a foreboding about what is about to happen (verb) indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
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| 15 | preternatural | (adjective satellite) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley (adjective satellite) surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"- George Will
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| 16 | prevalent | (adjective satellite) encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife"
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| 17 | prevalent | (adjective satellite) encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife"
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| 18 | prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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| 19 | prim | (verb) dress primly (verb) contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food" (verb) assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim" (adjective satellite) exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" (adjective satellite) affectedly dainty or refined
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| 20 | pristine | (adjective satellite) immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief" (adjective satellite) completely free from dirt or contamination; "pristine mountain snow"
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| 21 | probity | (noun) complete and confirmed integrity
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| 22 | proclivity | (noun) a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
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| 23 | procrastination | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
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| 24 | prodigal | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer (adjective satellite) very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; (adjective satellite) marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life" (adjective satellite) recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
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| 25 | prodigious | (adjective satellite) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" (adjective satellite) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" (adjective satellite) of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
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| 26 | profane | (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God" (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" (adjective satellite) characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" (adjective satellite) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" (adjective satellite) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled (adjective) not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
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| 27 | profligate | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society (adjective satellite) unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" (adjective satellite) recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
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| 28 | profundity | (noun) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" (noun) the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
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| 29 | profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant
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| 30 | proliferate | (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms" (verb) grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"
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| 31 | prolix | (adjective) tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"
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| 32 | prone | (adjective satellite) lying face downward (adjective satellite) having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone"
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| 33 | propagation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production (noun) the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions (noun) the movement of a wave through a medium
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| 34 | propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together
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| 35 | propitiate | (verb) make peace with
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| 36 | propitiatory | (adjective satellite) intended to reconcile or appease; "sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture" (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
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| 37 | propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; "propitious omens"
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| 38 | prosaic | (adjective satellite) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" (adjective satellite) lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" (adjective satellite) not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
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| 39 | proscribe | (verb) command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"
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| 40 | protracted | (adjective satellite) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations"
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| 41 | provident | (adjective) providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education" (adjective satellite) careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident"
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| 42 | provisional | (adjective satellite) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule"
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| 43 | provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for (verb) call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" (verb) annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
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| 44 | prudence | (noun) discretion in practical affairs (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
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| 45 | prudish | (adjective satellite) exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
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| 46 | prune | (noun) dried plum (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
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| 47 | pry | (noun) a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge (verb) be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!" (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock", "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him" (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
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| 48 | pugnacious | (adjective satellite) ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" (adjective satellite) tough and callous by virtue of experience
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| 49 | punch | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" (noun) a tool for making (usually circular) holes (noun) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl (verb) deliver a quick blow to; "he punched me in the stomach" (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation; "perforate the sheets of paper" (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch; "the nail punched through the wall"
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