Special English word list: P

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Parts of speech: n. (noun) - a name word; (verb) - an action word; ad. (adjective/adverb) - a describing word; prep. (preposition) - a word used to show a relation; pro. (pronoun) - a word used in place of a noun; conj. (conjunction) - a joining word


P

1. pain - n. a hurt or suffering somewhere in the body
2. paint - v. to cover with a liquid color; to make a picture with liquid colors; n. a colored liquid used to cover or protect a surface
3. pan - n. a metal container used for cooking
4. paper - n. a thin, flat material made from plants or cloth often used for writing
5. parachute - n. a device that permits a person or thing to fall slowly from an airplane or helicopter to the ground
6. parade - n. a group of people and vehicles moving together to celebrate a special event or anniversary
7. pardon - v. to forgive for a crime and release from punishment
8. parent - n. a father or mother
9. parliament - n. a government lawmaking group
10. part - n. something less than the whole; not all of something
11. party - n. a group of people working together for a political purpose; a group of people or friends gathered together for enjoyment
12. pass - v. to go by or move around something; to move along; to cause or permit to go
13. passenger - n. a person traveling by airplane, train, boat or car who is not the pilot or driver
14. passport - n. a document permitting a person to travel to another country
15. past - n. the time gone by; the time before; ad. recent; immediately before; former
16. path - n. a narrow way for walking; a way along which something moves
17. patient - n. a person being treated by a doctor for a health problem
18. pay - v. to give money for work done or for something bought
19. peace - n. the condition of freedom from war, fighting or noise; rest; quiet
20. people - n. any group of persons; all the persons of a group, race, religion or nation (“the American people”)
21. percent - n. a part of every hundred (“Ten is ten percent of one hundred.”)
22. perfect - ad. complete or correct in every way; completely right or good; without mistakes
23. perform - v. to speak, dance or sing in front of others
24. period - n. an amount of time within events, restrictions or conditions
25. permanent - ad. never changing; lasting for a very long time or for all time
26. permit - v. to let; to make possible
27. person - n. a man, woman or child
28. physical - ad. of the body
29. physics - n. the study of motion, matter and energy
30. picture - n. something that shows what another thing looks like; an idea or representation of something as seen by the eye; a painting; what is made with a camera
31. piece - n. a part of something larger
32. pig - n. a farm animal used for its meat
33. pilot - n. one who guides or flies an airplane or helicopter
34. pipe - n. a long, round piece of material used to move liquid or gas
35. place - v. to put something somewhere; n. an area or a part of an area; space where a person or thing is; any room, building, town or country
36. plan - v. to organize or develop an idea or method of acting or doing something (“They plan to have a party.”); n. an organized or developed idea or method (“The plan will not work.”)
37. planet - n. a large object in space that orbits the sun (“Earth is a planet.”)
38. plant - v. to put into the ground to grow; n. a living growth from the ground which gets its food from air, water and earth
39. plastic - n. a material made from chemicals that can be formed and made into things
40. play - v. to have fun; to not work; to take part in a sport; to make music on an instrument; n. a story acted in a theater
41. please - v. to make one happy; to give enjoyment
42. plenty - n. all that is needed; a large enough amount
43. plot - v. to make secret plans; n. a secret plan to do something wrong or illegal
44. poem - n. words and their sounds organized in a special way to express emotions
45. point - v. to aim one’s finger toward; to aim; n. the sharp end of something
46. poison - n. a substance that can destroy life or damage health
47. police - n. a government agency responsible for guarding the public, keeping order, and making sure people obey the law; members of that agency
48. policy - n. an established set of plans or goals used to develop and make decisions in politics, economics or business
49. politics - n. the activities of government and of those who are in public office
50. pollute - v. to release dangerous or unpleasant substances into the air, soil or water
51. poor - n. people with little or no money; ad. lacking money or goods; of bad quality
52. popular - ad. liked by many people; generally approved by the public
53. population - n. all the people in a place, city or country
54. port - n. a city where ships load or unload goods; a place on a coast where ships can be safe from a storm
55. position - n. a place; the way of holding the body; the way a thing is set or placed; a job (or level of a job) in an organization
56. possess - v. to have; to own; to control or be controlled by
57. possible - ad. able to be done; can happen or is expected to happen
58. postpone - v. to delay action until a later time
59. pour - v. to flow; to cause to flow
60. poverty - n. the condition of being poor
61. power - n. the ability to control or direct others; control; strength; ruling force; force or energy used to do work (“Water power turns the wheel.”)
62. praise - v. to say good things about; to approve
63. pray - v. to make a request to a god or spirit; to praise a god or spirit
64. pregnant - ad. carrying a child within the body before it is born; expecting to give birth to a baby
65. present - v. to offer for consideration (“We will present our idea to the committee.”); n. a gift (“I gave them a present for their anniversary.”); now (“The present time is a good time.”); ad. to be at a place (“I was present at school yesterday.”)
66. president - n. the chief official of a country that is a republic; the leader of an organization
67. press - v. to urge strongly; n. newspapers, magazines and other publications
68. pressure - n. the force produced when something is pushed down or against something else
69. prevent - v. to keep or stop from going or happening
70. price - n. the amount of money for which anything is bought, sold or offered for sale
71. prison - n. a place where a person is kept as punishment for a crime
72. private - ad. of or about a person or group that is secret; opposite public
73. prize - n. something offered or won in a competition; something of value that one must work hard for to get
74. probably - ad. a good chance of taking place; a little more than possible
75. problem - n. a difficult question or situation with an unknown or unclear answer
76. process - n. an operation or series of changes leading to a desired result
77. produce - v. to make; to create; to cause something to be; to manufacture
78. profession - n. a job that requires special training
79. professor - n. a teacher at a college or university
80. profit - n. money gained from a business activity after paying all costs of that activity
81. program - n. a plan of action; the different events or parts of a meeting or show
82. progress - n. movement forward or toward improvement or a goal
83. project - n. a planned effort to do something
84. propaganda - n. ideas or information used to influence opinions
85. property - n. anything owned by someone such as land, buildings or goods
86. propose - v. to present or offer for consideration
87. protect - v. to guard; to defend; to prevent from being harmed or damaged
88. protest - v. to speak against; to object
89. prove - v. to show to be true
90. provide - v. to give something needed or wanted
91. public - ad. of or about all the people in a community or country; opposite private
92. publication - n. something that is published such as a book, newspaper or magazine
93. publish - v. to make public something that is written; to include something in a book, newspaper or magazine
94. pull - v. to use force to move something toward the person or thing using the force; opposite push
95. pump - v. to force a gas or liquid up, into or through
96. punish - v. to cause pain, suffering or loss for doing something bad or illegal
97. purchase - v. to buy with money or with something of equal value; n. that which is bought
98. pure - ad. free from anything that is different or that reduces value; clean
99. purpose - n. the reason or desired effect for doing something; goal
100. push - v. to use force to move something away from the person or thing using the force; opposite pull
101. put - v. to place; to set in position