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Various

"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ danger; hazard; jeopardy
PE'RIOD, _s._ length of duration; a complete sentence from one full stop
to another; the end or conclusion
PE'RISIH, _v.n._ die; be destroyed; be lost; come to nothing
PE'RMANENT, _a._ durable; unchanged; of long continuance
PERNI'CIOUS, _a._ destructive; baneful
PERPENDICULAR, _a._ a straight line up and down
PERPE'TUAL, _a._ never-ceasing; continual
PERPLE'X, _v.a._ disturb; distract; tease; plague
PERPLE'XITY, _s._ anxiety; entanglement
PE'RSECUTE, _v.a._ to harass or pursue with malignity
PERSEVE'RANCE, _s._ persistence in any design or attempt; constancy in
progress
PERTINA'CITY, _s._ obstinacy; stubbornness; constancy
PERTURBA'TION, _s._ restlessness; disturbance
PERU'SAL, _s._ the act of reading
PETI'TION, _s._ request; entreaty; single branch or article of prayer
PHA'LANX, _s._ a troop of men closely embodied
PHENO'MENON, _s._ appearance
PHILOSOPHER, _s._ a man deep in knowledge
PHILOSOPHICAL, _a._ belonging to philosophy
PHILO'SOPHY, _s._ moral or natural knowledge
PHY'SICAL, _a._ relating to nature or to natural philosophy; medicinal;
relating to health
PICTO'RIAL, _a._ produced by a painter
PIC'TURESQUE, _a.


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