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  1. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  2. embezzlement
    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property
  3. defalcation
    a sum of money owned by someone else that is misused
  4. misappropriation
    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
  5. pell-mell
    in a wild or reckless manner
  6. pellucid
    transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
  7. penance
    voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for something
  8. penitent
    feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
  9. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  10. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
  11. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
  12. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  13. pauperism
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  14. indigent
    poor enough to need help from others
  15. percussion
    the act of exploding a detonator that explodes when struck
  16. perdition
    the place or state in which one suffers eternal punishment
  17. Inferno
    the abode of Satan and the forces of evil
  18. peregrination
    traveling or wandering around
  19. perennial
    lasting an indefinitely long time
  20. perfidious
    tending to betray
  21. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  22. peripatetic
    traveling especially on foot
  23. perjury
    criminal offense of making false statements under oath
  24. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  25. perpetuate
    cause to continue or prevail
  26. perquisite
    an incidental benefit for certain types of employment
  27. personable
    pleasant in manner and appearance
  28. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  29. sapient
    acutely insightful and wise
  30. perspicuity
    clarity as a consequence of being easily understandable
  31. pert
    characterized by a lightly saucy or impudent quality
  32. pertinacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  33. perturb
    disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried
  34. peruse
    examine or consider with attention and in detail
  35. pervasive
    spreading or spread throughout
  36. perversion
    the action of corrupting something
  37. pestilential
    likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  38. canker
    an ulcerlike sore
  39. pestilence
    any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  40. pestle
    a hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
  41. petulant
    easily irritated or annoyed
  42. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  43. pharisaical
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  44. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  45. philanderer
    a man who likes many women
Created on 十月 19, 2009 (updated 十月 19, 2009)

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