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| 1 | opaque | (adjective) not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" (adjective satellite) not clearly understood or expressed
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| 2 | opprobrious | (adjective satellite) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human (adjective satellite) expressing offensive reproach
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| 3 | optimist | (noun) a person disposed to take a favorable view of things
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| 4 | opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
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| 5 | ornate | (adjective satellite) rich in decorative detail (adjective satellite) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton
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| 6 | orthodox | (adjective) adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world" (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism" (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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| 7 | oscillate | (verb) move or swing from side to side regularly; "the needle on the meter was oscillating" (verb) be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action; "He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement"
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| 8 | ossify | (verb) become bony; "The tissue ossified" (verb) cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue" (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
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| 9 | ostensible | (adjective satellite) represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" (adjective satellite) appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
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| 10 | ostentatious | (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" (adjective satellite) of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
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| 11 | ostracize | (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with; "Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me" (verb) expel from a community or group
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| 12 | oust | (verb) remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds" (verb) remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"
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| 13 | p | (noun) the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet (noun) a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms
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| 14 | paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise (noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
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| 15 | pagan | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your God (adjective satellite) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
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| 16 | painstaking | (adjective satellite) characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"
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| 17 | palatial | (adjective satellite) suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht" (adjective) relating to or being a palace; "the palatial residence"
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| 18 | palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
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| 19 | palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
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| 20 | pallid | (adjective satellite) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" (adjective satellite) lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance" (adjective satellite) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan li
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| 21 | pallor | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
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| 22 | palpable | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt; "a barely palpable dust"; "felt sudden anger in a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and close--palpable as cotton" (adjective satellite) can be felt by palpation; "a palpable tumor"
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| 23 | panegyric | (noun) a formal expression of praise (adjective satellite) formally expressing praise
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| 24 | paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" (noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm" (noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) (noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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| 25 | paradox | (noun) (logic) a self-contradiction; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
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| 26 | parapet | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall (noun) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony
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| 27 | paraphernalia | (noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.
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| 28 | pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home)
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| 29 | parity | (noun) functional equality (noun) (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system (noun) (computer science) abit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arriv (noun) (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity (noun) (obstetrics) the number of live-born children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"
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| 30 | parley | (noun) a negotiation between enemies (verb) discuss, as between enemies
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| 31 | parochial | (adjective satellite) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners" (adjective) relating to or supported by or located in a parish; "parochial schools"
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| 32 | parody | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry (noun) a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way (verb) make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" (verb) make a spoof of or make fun of
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| 33 | parry | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack"
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| 34 | parse | (verb) analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
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| 35 | parsimonious | (adjective satellite) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
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| 36 | parsimony | (noun) extreme stinginess (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
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| 37 | partisan | (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something (adjective) devoted to a cause or party (adjective satellite) adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice"
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| 38 | passive | (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive" (adjective) lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith (adjective) expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences" (adjective satellite) peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
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| 39 | paucity | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number
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| 40 | pavilion | (noun) large and often sumptuous tent
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| 41 | peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed
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| 42 | pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money; "monetary rewards"; "he received thanks but no pecuniary compensation for his services"
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| 43 | pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people
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| 44 | pedantic | (adjective satellite) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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| 45 | pedestrian | (noun) a person who travels by foot (adjective satellite) lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
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| 46 | pejorative | (adjective satellite) expressing disapproval; "dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'"
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| 47 | pellucid | (adjective satellite) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" (adjective satellite) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal"
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| 48 | penchant | (noun) a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"
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| 49 | penitent | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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| 50 | pensive | (adjective satellite) showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" (adjective satellite) persistently or morbidly thoughtful
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