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1
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Passé

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No longer fashionable, out of date

2
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Patrimony

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Inherited from the father; heritage

Estate or property belonging by ancient endowment

3
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Pecuniary

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Relating to money

4
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Pell-mell

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In a confused, rushed, or disorderly manner

Recklessly hasty or disorganized

5
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Pellucid

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Translucently clear; easily understood

6
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Penitential

A

Expressing penitence/penance (voluntary self-punishment as repentance for wrongdoing)

7
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Pepper (v.)

A

Cover or fill with liberal amount of scattered items
Hit repeatedly with small missiles/gunshots
Inflict severe punishment/suffering

8
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Peppery

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Irritable and sharp-tongued

9
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Perfidy

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Deceitfulness; untrustworthiness

10
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Perpetuity

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State or quality of lasting forever

11
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Perquisites

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Thing regarded as special right or privilege as result of one’s position; perk

12
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Pert

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(Of a young girl/woman) Attractively lively or cheeky

Attractive because neat and jaunty

13
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Phased in

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Introduced into gradually

14
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Philippic

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Bitter attack or denunciation

15
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Pidgins

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Simplified form of language in order to communicate, as for people not sharing common language

16
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Piecemeal

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Bit-by-bit, gradually, slowly, in stages

17
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Pilfering

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Stealing

18
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Piety

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Quality of being religious or reverent

Belief or POV accepted with unthinking conventional reverence

19
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Pine

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Suffer mental or physical decline

Miss and long for the return of

20
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Plangent

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Loud, reverberating, and often melancholy