1. Pacifist - someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
2. Palliative - moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
3. Palpable - able to be felt by tactile examination
4. Panacea - hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
5. Pandemic - an outbreak of disease that is geographically widespread
6. Pandemonium - a state of extreme confusion and disorder
7. Paradigm - a standard or typical example
8. Paradox - a statement that contradicts itself
9. Paragon - model of excellence or perfection of a kind
10. Parody - a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
11. Parsimonious - excessively unwilling to spend
12. Partisan - devoted to a cause or political group
13. Pastoral - idyllically rustic
14. Patriarchal - of a social organization with the male as the head
15. Patrician - befitting a person of noble origin
16. Patriotism - love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
17. Patronizing - characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance
18. Paucity - an insufficient quantity or number
19. Pecuniary - relating to or involving money
20. Pedagogy - the principles and methods of instruction
21. Pedantic - marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
22. Penitent - feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
23. Penurious - excessively unwilling to spend
24. Perfidious - tending to betray
25. Perilous - fraught with danger
26. Perish - pass from physical life
27. Pernicious - exceedingly harmful
28. Perpetuate - cause to continue or prevail
29. Personification - someone who represents an abstract quality
30. Pertinent - having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand
31. Peruse - examine or consider with attention and in detail
32. Pervasive - spreading or spread throughout
33. Philanthropist - someone who makes charitable donations
34. Pillage - steal goods; take as spoils
35. Pinnacle - the highest level or degree attainable
36. Pithy - concise and full of meaning
37. Placate - cause to be more favorably inclined
38. Placid - calm and free from disturbance
39. Plausible - apparently reasonable, valid, or truthful
40. Plebeian - one of the common people
41. Plethora - extreme excess
42. Pliable - capable of being bent or flexed or
43. Plight - a situation from which extrication is difficult
44. Plummet - drop sharply
45. Plunder - destroy and strip of its possession
46. Plutocracy - a political system governed by the wealthy people
47. Poignant - keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
48. Polarize - become divided in a conflict or contrasting situation
49. Pompous - puffed up with vanity
50. Portentous - of momentous or ominous significance
51. Posterity - all future generations
52. Potent - having a strong physiological or chemical effect
53. Potentate - a powerful ruler, especially one who is unconstrained by law
54. Pragmatic - concerning a theory of observable practical consequences
55. Preamble - a preliminary introduction, as to a statute or constitution
56. Precarious - fraught with danger
