Proximity: nearness
Example: [The best thing about the location of the house is its proximity to the market]
Proxy: agent substitute
Example: [a proxy vote]
Prude: puritan
Example: [Call me a prude, but I just didn’t like doing a poo in front of naked ladies]
Prudence: Caution.
Prudent: careful cautious
Example: [It’s always prudent to]
Prudential: sagacious, sensible, intelligent, wise, cautious
Example: [prudential regulations/considerations/measures/standards/restraints]
Prudery: moralism, excessive modesty, puritanism, narrow-mindedness
Example: [He secretly despised his sister’s prudery though he dared not acknowledge it. We all admit that Victorian prudery was carried to absurd lengths]
Prudish: squeamish, narrow-minded, very formal, reserved, precise, overly careful
Example: [They are very prudish about sexuality]
Prune: trim to cut expenditure or branches
Example: [she pruned her manuscript into publishable form]
Prurient: exhibiting lewd desires
Example: [He denied that the article had been in any way prurient]
Pseudapostle: A pretended or false apostle.
Pseudonym: pen name alias
Example: [the author used a pseudonym]
Pseudonymity: The state or character of using a fictitious name.
Psyche: mind soul
Example: [the psyche of people]
Psychiatrist: a doctor who treats mental diseases
Example: [a psychiatrist often spends hours with a patient before making a diagnosis]
Psychiatry: branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders
Example: [He is a major authority in child and adolescent psychiatry]
Psychic: pertaining the psyche or mind
Example: [psychic powers]
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Psychopath: madman
Psychopathic: mentally ill
Example: [a psychopathic serial killer]
Psychosis: mental disorder
Psychotherapy: treatment of emotional disorders using talking therapies and similar psychological techniques
Example: [Most people who enter counseling or psychotherapy want to improve some aspect of their living]
Psychotic: demented
Example: [a psychotic disorder]
Pterodactyl: extinct flying reptile
Example: [the remains of pterodactyls]
Puberty: adolescence
Example: [At puberty, girls begin to menstruate]
Pudgy: heavy, fat or thick, obese, overweight, big-bellied
Example: [pudgy hands/fingers/cheeks]
Puerile: Childish
Example: [I find his sense of humor rather puerile]
Pugilist: boxer
Example: [Mohammed Ali was a famous pugilist]
Pugnacious: quarrelsome combative
Example: [I found him pugnacious and arrogant]
Puissant: strong
Example: [he will make a puissant ally]
Pulchritude: beauty
Example: [female pulchritude]
Pulmonary: related to the lungs
Example: [the pulmonary artery]
Pulp: mush paste
Example: [Mash the bananas to a pulp]
Pulpit: priesthood platform
Example: [the priest spoke from the pulpit]
Pulsate: throb
Example: [The whole room was pulsating with music]
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Pummel: attack beat
Example: [They were pummeled in the second round]
Pun: wordplay
Example: [a well-known joke based on a pun]
Punctilious: careful in observing rules of behavior or ceremony
Example: [He was always punctilious in his manners]
Punctual: Observant and exact in points of time.
Pundit: learned or politically astute person
Example: [a political pundit]
Pungency: wit, sharpness, cleverness, force, the condition of having a strong, sharp taste or smell
Pungent: sharp smell or taste
Example: [the pungent whiff of a goat]
Punitive: punishing
Example: [punitive action]
Puny: small weak
Example: [My car only has a puny little engine]
Pupilage: The state or period of being a student.
Purblind: dim-sighted obtuse
Example: [in his purblind condition, he could not identify the people he saw]
Purgatory: netherworld limbo
Example: [I’ve been on a diet for two weeks now, and it’s purgatory]
Purge: remove cleanse
Example: [Party leaders have undertaken to purge the party of extremists]
Purl: To cause to whirl as in an eddy.
Purloin: To steal
Example: [purloined from the office]
Purport: claim to be
Example: [They purport to represent the wishes of the majority of parents at the school]
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