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| Paucity | shortage |
| Peccadillo | minor weakness; trivial offence |
| Pedant | person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning |
| Pedestrian | common; mundane; banal |
| Peerless | without equal |
| Pejorative | derogatory |
| Pellucid | transparently clear |
| Pensive | in a thoughtful mood; thinking deeply |
| Penury | poverty |
| Perceptive | observant |
| Percipient | perceptive; insightful |
| Perdition | damnation |
| Peremptory | in a commanding manner |
| Perfidy | treachery |
| Perfunctory | superficial; cursory |
| Peripatetic | nomadic; moving from place to place |
| Peripheral | on the edge; not important |
| Perjury | telling lies under oath |
| Pernicious | destructive; harmful |
| Perpetuated | caused to continue |