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Dictionary: politic
DEFINITION: (adjective) Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication.

Dictionary: pestilential
DEFINITION: (adjective) Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.

Dictionary: preponderance
DEFINITION: (noun) A superiority in numbers or amount.

Dictionary: precede
DEFINITION: (verb) Furnish with a preface or introduction.

Dictionary: prostration
DEFINITION: (noun) An abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion.

Dictionary: pustulate
DEFINITION: (adj.) Blemished by imperfections of the skin.

Dictionary: pinafore
DEFINITION: (noun) A sleeveless garment similar to an apron, worn especially by small girls as a dress or an overdress.

Dictionary: penury
DEFINITION: (noun) Extreme want or poverty; destitution.

Dictionary: pandemonium
DEFINITION: (noun) A state of extreme confusion and disorder.

Dictionary: parapraxis
DEFINITION: (noun) A minor error, such as a slip of the tongue, thought to reveal a repressed motive.

Dictionary: plexor
DEFINITION: (noun) A small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes.

Dictionary: pasquinade
DEFINITION: (noun) A satire or lampoon, especially one that ridicules a specific person, traditionally written and posted in a public place.

Dictionary: pincer
DEFINITION: (noun) A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods.

Dictionary: plexus
DEFINITION: (noun) A structure in the form of a network, especially of nerves, blood vessels, or lymphatics.

Dictionary: phellem
DEFINITION: (noun) Outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells.

Dictionary: portent
DEFINITION: (noun) An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur.

Dictionary: panpipe
DEFINITION: (noun) A primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together.

Dictionary: platitude
DEFINITION: (noun) A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant.

Dictionary: patella
DEFINITION: (noun) A flat triangular bone located at the front of the knee joint.

Dictionary: preclude
DEFINITION: (verb) Keep from happening or arising; make impossible.