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Painstaking

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Extremely careful

Taking pains

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Pacify

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To calm someone down

To placate

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Palliate

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To relieve or alleviate something without getting rid if the problem
To assuage
To mitigate

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Palpable

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Capable of being touched
Obvious
Tangible

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Paltry

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Insignificant

Worthless

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Panacea

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Something that cures everything

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Paradigm

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A model or example

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Paradox

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A true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself
An untrue statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems logical

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Parochial

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Narrow or confined in point if view

Provincial

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Parody

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A satirical imitation

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Parsimonious

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Stingy

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Partisan

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One who supports a particular person cause, or idea.

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Patent

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Obvious

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Paternal

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Fatherly

Father like

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Pathology

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The science of diseases

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Patriarch

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The male head of a family or tribe

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Patrician

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A person of noble birth

An aristocrat

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Patronize

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To treat as an inferior

To condescend to

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Paucity

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Scarcity

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Peccadillo

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A minor offense

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Pedantic

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Boringly scholarly or academic

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Pedestrian

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Unimaginative

Banal

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Perjorative

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Negative

Disparaging

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Penchant

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A strong taste or liking for something

A predilection

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Penitent

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Sorry
Repentant
Contrite

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Pensive

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Thoughtful and sad

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Peremptory

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Final
Categorical
Dictatorial

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Perennial

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Continual

Happening again an again or year after year.

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Perfidy

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Treachery

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Perfunctory

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Unenthusiastic

Careless

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Peripatetic

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Wandering
Traveling continually
Itinerant

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Periphery

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The outside edge or something

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Perjury

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Lying under oath

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Permeate

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To spread or seep through

To penetrate