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plumb, a. perpendicular, upright, true.
plume, v. preen, prink; pride, vaunt, boast, glory.
plump, a. fleshy, bouncing, chubby, fat, portly, stout; blunt, unreserved, unqualified.
plunder, n. booty, spoil, loot, pillage, robbery.
plunder, v. pillage, loot, rob.
plunderer, n. pillager, robber, spoiler, depredator, marauder.
plunge, v. souse, immerse, submerge, dip, douse; dive, pitch.
pocket, n. bag, sack, pouch, placket, sabretasche.
pocket-book, n. purse, wallet, _portemonnaie_.
pockmarked, a. pockpitted, pockfretten, pocky, pitted.
pod, n. capsule, legume, burr, shale, boll.
poem, n. sonnet, ballad, verse, distich, lyric, elegy, eclogue, idyl, madrigal, epic, ode, georgic, cid, rondeau, epilogue, epigram, elegiac, roundelay, dithyramb, dithyrambic, doggerel, rhapsody.
poet, n. bard; laureate; versifier, rhymster, poetaster; troubadour, jongleur.
poetaster, n. rhymster, verse-monger, versifier.
poetical, a. metrical, rhythmic.
poetry, n. verse, rhyme, poems, poesy, orthometry, versification, prosody, poetics. Antonym: prose. a.s.sociated Word: anthology.
poignant, a. p.r.i.c.king, piercing, pungent.
point, n. p.r.i.c.k, gad, goad; punctilio, nicety, subtlety; poignancy, sting; degree, step, stage; ferrule; zenith (highest point); nadir (lowest point); aiglet, tag; apex, tip.
point, v. aim, level, direct; show, indicate, designate; punctuate; taper.
point-blank, a. direct, plain, unqualified, unreserved.
pointed, a. sharp, picked, peaked, tapering, conical. Antonyms: pointless, dull.
pointer, n. indicator, index.
pointing, n. sharpening; punctuation; designation, indication.
poise, n. equipoise, balance, equilibrium.
poise, v. balance, librate.
poison, n. venom, virus, toxine, toxicant, irritant, taint, bane, ptomaine. a.s.sociated Words: toxicology, toxicophobia, toxicomania, toxiferous, toxicologist, antidote, alexiteric, venenific, septiferous, envenom, infect.
poisoning, n. toxication, venenation; autotoxication (self-poisoning); tainting, vitiation, infection.
poisonous, a. toxic, toxical, venomous, noxious, baneful, virulent, malignant. Antonyms: nonpoisonous, antidotal.
poisonousness, n. toxicity, venomousness, virulence, malignancy.
poke, n. bag, sack, pocket; thrust, punch, jog, dig; dawdler, bore.
poke, v. stir up, excite; punch, thrust; gore, hook; grope.
poke fun at. (Colloq.) ridicule, deride.
poker-painting, n. pyrography, xylopyrography.
poky, a. (Colloq.) slow, dull, tiresome, tedious, prosaic.
polar lights. aurora borealis (northern); aurora australis (southern);
Pole, n. Polander, Polack.
pole, n. shaft, thill (of a vehicle); rod, perch; bergstock, alpenstock; poy (rope-dancer's pole); 5 1/2 yards, 30 1/4 square yards; jalons; quant.
polestar, n. north star, polar star, Polaris, loadstar, Cynosure.
polish, v. burnish, furbish.
polish, n. gloss, l.u.s.ter, sheen, glaze, glazing; courtliness, refinement.
polished, a. burnished, glistening, bright; courtly, elegant refined.
polite, a. courtly, civil, courteous, suave, urbane, deferential debonair, mannerly. Antonyms: See impolite.
politeness, n. courtliness, courtesy, civility, suavity, urbanity, deference, amenity, comity.
politic, a. political; judicious, discreet, shrewd, astute; diplomatic, strategic, artful.
politician, n. statesman, statist; demagogue (unprincipled and factious).
polliwog, n. tadpole, purwiggy.
poll tax. capitation.
pollute, v. defile, contaminate, corrupt, infect, debase, vitiate, desecrate, befoul.
pollution, n. defilement, contamination, corruption, infection debas.e.m.e.nt, vitiation.
poltroon, n. coward, craven, dastard.
