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peculation, n. embezzlement.
peculator, n. embezzler.
peculiar, a. individual, personal, particular; singular, eccentric, erratic, queer, odd, exceptional, unique, bizarre, grotesque, nondescript, unusual, unconventional.
peculiarity, n. characteristic, trait, attribute, idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, oddness.
peddle, v. hawk, vend.
peddler, n. hawker, huckster, vender, chapman, cadger, packman, coster.
peddler's pack. wallet.
peddling, n. hucksterage, hawking.
pedigree, n. lineage, ancestry, descent, extraction, genealogy.
peek, v. peep.
peel, n. rind, skin.--v. pare, decorticate. Antonym: pulp.
peep, v. chirp, cheep, pule; peer, peek, pry.
peer, n. equal, match, mate, compeer; n.o.bleman, n.o.ble, lord.
peerless, a. matchless, unrivalled, inimitable, incomparable, unsurpa.s.sed, superlative, nonpareil, transcendent, supreme, unequalled.
peevish, a. petulant, querulous, captious, spleeny, fretful, impatient, cross.
peg, n. pin, spilikin; pretext, support, reason; degree, step.
pellmell, adv. disorderly, confusedly, helter-skelter.
pelt, n. woolfell, fell.
pelt, v. batter, beat, a.s.sail, pepper.
pen, v. confine, coop, encage, corral.
pen, n. coop, sty, cote, enclosure, hutch, paddock, pound, pinfold, corral, stockade.
penalty, n. punishment, retribution; forfeiture, fine, mulct.
pending, a. undecided, unsettled.--prep. during.
penetrable, a. permeable, pervious. Antonym: impenetrable.
penetrate, v. pierce, perforate; comprehend, understand; explore; interpenetrate.
penetrating, a. piercing, subtile, penetrant, sharp; acute, discerning, penetrative.
penetration, n. piercing, perforation; acuteness, discernment, sharpness; interpenetration.
peninsula, n. chersonese.
p.e.n.i.s, n. a.s.sociated Words: penial, foreskin, prepuce, glans, urethra, chordee, erection, o.r.g.a.s.m, _corpus spangiosum_, priapism, phimosis, s.m.e.g.m.a, phallus, bougie.
penitence, n. contrition, repentance, remorse, compunction.
Antonym: impenitence.
penitent, a. contrite, remorseful. Antonyms: impenitent, incontrite.
penitentiary, n. prison.
penman, n. calligrapher, calligraphist, chirographer, chirographist, writer.
penmans.h.i.+p, n. writing, calligraphy, pencraft, chirography.
pen name. pseudonym, _nom de plume_.
penniless, a. impecunious, indigent, dest.i.tute. See poor.
pennilessness, n. impecuniosity, indigence, poverty, dest.i.tution.
penny, n. cent; groat, stiver; denarius.
penny-a-liner, n. hack, hack writer.
pensive, a. meditative, dreamy, lackadaisical, introspective, thoughtful, sad, grave.
Pentecost, n. Whitsunday, Whitsuntide.
penthouse, n. lean-to.
pent up. confined, restrained, restricted.
penurious, a. miserly, stingy, n.i.g.g.ardly, parsimonious, avaricious, grasping.
penury, n. poverty, indigence.
people, n. folks; inhabitants, population, citizens; populace, commonalty, rabble, canaille; relatives, relations, kindred; laity.
people, v. populate, colonize.
peopled, a. inhabited, populated.
pepper, n. capsic.u.m.
peppery, a. pungent; irascible, hot-tempered, choleric.
