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| 1 | precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles (verb) hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below" (verb) bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution" (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin" (verb) fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" (adjective satellite) done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether
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| 2 | preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; have the effect of preventing; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer" (verb) make impossible, especially beforehand
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| 3 | precocious | (adjective satellite) appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias" (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"
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| 4 | predecessor | (noun) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
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| 5 | prefatory | (adjective satellite) serving as an introduction or preface
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| 6 | premise | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play" (verb) take something as preexisting and given (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"
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| 7 | preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily
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| 8 | presage | (noun) a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" (noun) a foreboding about what is about to happen (verb) indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
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| 9 | prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future
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| 10 | prescriptive | (adjective) giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" (adjective satellite) based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar"
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| 11 | prevalent | (adjective satellite) encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife"
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| 12 | prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
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| 13 | pristine | (adjective satellite) immaculately clean and unused; "handed her his pristine white handkerchief" (adjective satellite) completely free from dirt or contamination; "pristine mountain snow"
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| 14 | privy | (noun) a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate (noun) a room equipped with toilet facilities (adjective satellite) hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"
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| 15 | probity | (noun) complete and confirmed integrity
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| 16 | problematic | (adjective satellite) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" (adjective satellite) open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic"
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| 17 | prodigal | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer (adjective satellite) very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; (adjective satellite) marked by rash extravagance; "led a prodigal life" (adjective satellite) recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
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| 18 | prodigious | (adjective satellite) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" (adjective satellite) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" (adjective satellite) of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"
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| 19 | profound | (adjective satellite) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns" (adjective satellite) (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" (adjective satellite) coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh" (adjective satellite) of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence"; "a state of profound shock" (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being; "the differences are profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret" (adjective satellite) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravaga
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| 20 | profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant
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| 21 | progeny | (noun) the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"
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| 22 | program | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation; "the program lasted more than two hours" (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" (noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program" (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party; "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program" (noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" (noun) a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" (noun) an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" (noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; "you can't tell the players without a program" (verb) arrange a program of or for; "program the 80th birthday party" (verb) write a computer program
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| 23 | proliferate | (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly; "We must not proliferate nuclear arms" (verb) grow rapidly; "Pizza parlors proliferate in this area"
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| 24 | prolific | (adjective satellite) bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" (adjective satellite) intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
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| 25 | promontory | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
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| 26 | propagate | (verb) multiply sexually or asexually (verb) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering (verb) cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" (verb) transmit or cause to broaden or spread; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land" (verb) become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population" (verb) transmit; "propagate sound or light through air" (verb) travel through the air; "sound and light propagate in this medium" (verb) transmit from one generation to the next; "propagate these characteristics"
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| 27 | propensity | (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread" (noun) a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" (noun) an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
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| 28 | propinquity | (noun) the property of being close together
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| 29 | propitiate | (verb) make peace with
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| 30 | prosaic | (adjective satellite) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" (adjective satellite) lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" (adjective satellite) not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
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| 31 | proselytize | (verb) convert to another faith or religion
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| 32 | protocol | (noun) code of correct conduct; "safety protocols"; "academic protocol" (noun) forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state (noun) (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data
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| 33 | proverbial | (adjective satellite) widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentiminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde" (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb; "he kicked the proverbial bucket"; "the proverbial grasshopper"
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| 34 | provident | (adjective) providing carefully for the future; "wild squirrels are provident"; "a provident father plans for his children's education" (adjective satellite) careful in regard to your own interests; "the prudent use and development of resources"; "wild squirrels are provident"
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| 35 | provincial | (noun) a country person (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" (adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" (adjective) of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
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| 36 | proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition; "he accepted subject to one provision"
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| 37 | provocative | (adjective) serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope (adjective satellite) exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
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| 38 | provoke | (verb) provide the needed stimulus for (verb) call forth; "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple" (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" (verb) annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
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| 39 | quaff | (noun) a hearty draft (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"
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| 40 | quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
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| 41 | quaint | (adjective satellite) strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" (adjective satellite) very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense (adjective satellite) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
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| 42 | qualified | (adjective satellite) legally qualified; "a competent witness" (adjective satellite) contingent on something else (adjective satellite) having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially made less severe; "justice moderated with mercy" (adjective satellite) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man') (adjective) meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task; "many qualified applicants for the job" (adjective) limited or restricted; not absolute; "gave only qualified approval" (adjective satellite) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill; "a registered pharmacist"; "a registered hospital"
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| 43 | qualm | (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (noun) a mild state of nausea
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| 44 | quandary | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people"
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| 45 | quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; "My dog was quarantined before he could live in England"
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| 46 | quiescence | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"
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| 47 | quiescent | (adjective satellite) causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor" (adjective satellite) being quiet or still or inactive (adjective satellite) not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation" (adjective satellite) marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"
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| 48 | quintessence | (noun) the most typical example or representative of a type (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something (noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
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| 49 | quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading (noun) a strange attitude or habit (verb) twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
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| 50 | quixotic | (adjective satellite) not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
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