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plenary : complete; full plenipotentiary : fully empowered plumb : checking perpendicularity; vertical poignant : keen; piercing; severe politic : expedient; prudent; well devised polyglot : speaking several languages portentous : ominous; serious portly : stately; stout posthumous : after death potential : expressing possibility; latent practicable : feasible practical : based on experience; useful pragmatic : practical; concerned with practical values precarious : uncertain; risky precedent : preceding in time, rank, etc. precipitate : headlong; rash precipitous : steep precocious : developed ahead of time predatory : plundering preeminent : outstanding; superior prefatory : introductory preposterous : absurd; ridiculous pretentious : ostentatious; ambitious prim : very precise and formal; exceedingly proper primordial : existing at the beginning of time; rudimentary pristine : characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled | 
