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Onerous

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Troublesome burdensome

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Officious

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Meddlesome pushy in offering one services where they are unwanted

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace, contempt, scorned. Disgrace or reproach incurred by shameful conduct

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Ossified

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Changed into bone, made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change

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Ostensible

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Seeming, appearing as such, professed

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Ostentatious

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Characterized by or given to pretentiousness

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Overweening

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Presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate

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Paean

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A song or expression of praise and thanksgiving

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Palliate

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To make something appear less serious, gloss over, mitigate

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Pandemic

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Widespread; occurring over a large area or affecting an unusually large percentage of the population

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Panegyric

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Formal expression of praise

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Paradigm

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Something that serves as a model, example, or pattern; the framework of assumptions and understandings shared by a group or discipline that shapes it’s worldview

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Paradox

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A contradiction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless. For example less is more

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Paragon

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Something regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in someway

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Parsimonious

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Cheap, miserly

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Paucity

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Scarcity, a lacking of

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Peccadillo

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A slight offense, literally, a minor sin

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Pedagogy

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The art of professional training, teaching, or instructing

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Pedantic

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Ostentatious display of learning, excessive attention to my minutiae informal rules, unimaginative

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Penurious

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Pennypinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

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Penury

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Extreme poverty destitution or lack of resources

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peremptory

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Admitting of no contradiction, putting an end to further debate, Haughty Imperious

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith, treachery

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Peripatetic

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Adj. or noun moving frequently from place to place

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Pernicious
Extremely harmful, potentially causing death
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Perspicacious
Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment
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Petrous
Like a rock, hard, Stony
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Philistine
Crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values
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Picaresque
Involving clever rogues or adventurers
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Pied
Multicolored, usually in blotches
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Pillory
To punish, hold up to Public scorn
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Piquant
Agreeably pungent, spicy, stimulating
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Pith
The essential or central part
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Plangent
Pounding, thundering, resounding
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Platitude
Superficial or trite remark, especially one offered as meaningful
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Plumb
To measure the depth, to examine critically
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Polemical
Controversial, argumentative
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Prate
Chatter or Babble
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Precept
Rule establishing standards of conduct, a doctrine that is taught
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Precipitate
Adj. Acting with excessive haste or impulse | Verb cause or happen before anticipated or required
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Prevaricate
To lie
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Probity
Integrity; uprightness
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Prodigal
Recklessly wasteful, extravagant, profuse, lavish
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Profligate
Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
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Prolix
Long-winded, Verbose
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Propinquity
Nearness in time or place, affinity of nature, kinship
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Propitiate
To appease or pacify
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Propitious
Auspicious, favorable
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Proscribe
Outlaw or prohibit
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Provident
Frugal, looking to the future
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Puerile
Childish, immature
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Pugnacious
Contentious, quarrelsome, given to fighting, belligerent
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Punctilious
Precise, paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette
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Pusillanimous
Cowardly, Craven
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Obdurate
Unyielding hardhearted inflexible
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Obeisance
Gesture that expresses deference such as a bow or curtsy
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Obfuscate
To deliberately obscure, to make confusing
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Obsequious
Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservience
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Obstreperous
Noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous
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Obtuse
Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression
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Obviate
To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Occlude
To obstruct or block
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Occult
Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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Quiescence
Stillness, motionless nests, quality of being at rest
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Quotidien
Occurring or reoccurring daily, commonplace
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Solicitous
Concerned and attentive, Eager
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Stint
To restrain, be sparing or frugal
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Succor
Assistance, relief in times of distress
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Supercilious
Disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn
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Supine
Inactive, lying and ones back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack
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Suppliant
Asking humbly, beseeching
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Supplicant
Beggar, one who prays or begs for something
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Surfeit
To feed or supply in excess
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Sycophant
Someone who tries to flatterer or please for personal gain, parasite
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Synthesis
The combination of parts to make a whole
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Table
To remove ( as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
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Taciturn
Not talkative, silent
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Tamp
To plug, to drive in or down by a series of blows
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Tautology
Repetition, a redundancy, a circular argument
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Tendentious
Biased, showing marked tendencies
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Torpid
Lethargic sluggish dormant
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Torque
Force that causes rotation
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Tractable
Docile, obedient, easily led
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Trenchant
Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating, biting, clear-cut
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Truculent
Fierce, scathing, eager to fight
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Tumid
Swollen. (like a river)
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Turgid
Swollen, Bloated, pompous, excessively ornate
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Turpitude
Depravity, baseness
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Tyro
Novice, beginner in learning
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Promulgate
To proclaim usually in reference to rules or laws

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