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pommel, v. beat, pound, maul, belabor, cudgel, thwack, club.
pomp, n. pageantry, parade, pageant.
pompous, a. stately, imposing, august; pretentious, grandiose See bombastic.
pond, n. lake (small); lagoon.
ponder, v. meditate, reflect, ruminate, think, muse.
ponderous, a. ma.s.sive, heavy, c.u.mbersome; dull, spiritless momentous, important.
pooh-pooh, v. (Colloq.) deride.
poor, a. indigent, impecunious, needy, poverty -stricken, straitened, necessitous, penniless, eleemosynary; emaciated, skinny, lean, spare, meager, bony, gaunt, thin, haggard, scrawny, angular, peaked, rawboned, pinched; inferior, mean, shabby, seedy, tacky, worthless; barren, sterile, effete infecund, inarable, exhausted, infertile; miserable, wretched, faulty, defective; despicable, contemptible, abject, sordid, sorry; unfavorable, inauspicious, unpropitious.
poorhouse, n. almshouse, infirmary.
pope, n. bishop of Rome, pontiff, _Pontifex Maximus_. a.s.sociated words: papal, papacy, paparchy, popish, see, popedom, popery, ablegate, nuncio, legate, Vatican, pontifical.
poppinjay, n. dandy, c.o.xcomb. See fop.
populace, n. commonalty, proletariat, rabble.
popular, a. approved.
popularity, n. favor, esteem, approbation, celebrity.
population, n. inhabitants.
porch, n. piazza, stoop, veranda, porte-cochere, portico.
pork, n. a.s.sociated Words: trichina, trichinosis.
porous, a. permeable, penetrable, pervious, percolable. Antonyms: imporous, compact.
porridge dish. porringer.
port, n. harbor, haven; port-hole, embrasure; larboard; deportment, carriage, bearing, demeanor.
portend, v. foretoken, bode, presage, foreshadow, augur.
portentous, a. ominous, premonitory; monstrous, prodigious.
porter, n. doorkeeper, _concierge_.
portico, n. colonnade, arcade; porch.
portion, n. part, section, piece; allotment, quota, share, contingent; inheritance; dowry.
portly, a. dignified, imposing, stately, commanding; fleshy, obese, corpulent, stout.
portray, v. delineate, depict, picture, draw, sketch, paint, describe.
portrayal, n. delineation, description, account, recital, painting, depiction.
pose, n. att.i.tude, posture (a.s.sumed).--v. att.i.tudinize; nonplus, bewilder, embarra.s.s.
position, n. situation, post; att.i.tude, posture; situation, place, job; rank, standing, status; state, condition, circ.u.mstances.
positive, a. definite, precise, unequivocal, explicit, catagorical, unmistakable; confident, certain, sure; veritable, actual, absolute; indisputable; peremptory, dogmatic.
posse, n. (Colloq.) crowd, throng, mult.i.tude.
possess, v. own; have, hold, occupy; seize, take, appropriate.
possession, n. owners.h.i.+p, occupancy, tenure, fruition, retention, occupation.
possessor, n. owner, proprietor; occupant, tenant, holder.
possibility, n. potentiality, contingency. Antonym: impossibility.
possible, a. potential, _in posse_, contingent, practicable.
Antonym: impossible.
possibly, adv. maybe, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, haply.
post, n. column, pillar, pilaster; position, seat, station; office, employment, station; bollard, stanchion, pile, newel, puncheon.
post, v. placard, announce; mail.
posted, a. (Colloq.) informed.
poster, n. placard, bulletin, bill.
posterior, a. later, subsequent, ensuing, succeeding; hinder, rear.
post-mortem, n. autopsy, necropsy.
postpone, v. defer, delay, put off, procrastinate, adjourn, prorogue.
postponement, n. deferring, delay, procrastination.
posture, n. att.i.tude.
posy, n. flower, nosegay, boutonniere, bouquet.
pot, n. kettle; chamber-pot, jorden, urinal; jardiniere.
potboy, n. menial, scullion.
