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potent, a. powerful, forcible, cogent, effective, strong.
pother, n. confusion, commotion, flutter, bustle, stir.
potter, v. trifle, pother.
potter's wheel. jigger, throw.
pouch, n. bag, sack; paunch; marsupium.
poultice, n. cataplasm.
pound, v. beat; comminute, pulverize, bray, triturate; maul, belabor; impound.
pound, n. pinfold; sixteen ounces (avoir.); twelve ounces (troy); sovereign, $4.86.
pounder, n. pestle.
pour, v. decant.
pouring, n. decantation.
poverty, n. penury, indigence, need, dest.i.tution, privation, neediness, impecuniosity, pauperism; deficiency, paucity, infecundity, dearth, lack, meagerness, sterility, barrenness. a.s.sociated Words: impoverish, impoverishment.
powder, n. dust, pulverulence; cosmetic, rouge; pounce; efflorescence.
powder, v. pulverize, triturate, comminute, levigate.
powdery, a. friable, loose; dusty, pulverized, pulverulent, mealy.
power, n. potency, might, cogency, efficacy, force; armipotence, omnipotence; influence, sway, command, domination, authority; faculty, endowment, gift.
powerful, a. mighty, potent, drastic, efficacious, intense, strong, dynamic, puissant, effective, omnipotent, armipotent, stentorian, invincible, cogent, commanding.
powerless, a. impotent. See weak.
pox, n. syphilis.
practicability, n. feasibility.
practicable, a. feasible.
practical, a. pragmatical. Antonyms: impractical, Utopian, chimerical.
practice, n. custom, usage, habit; exercise, application, drill, rehearsal.
practice, v. exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehea.r.s.e.
praise, n. commendation, laudation, approbation, encomium, panegyric, eulogy, applause, laud, acclaim, eclat, plaudit, compliment, acclamation, puff, flattery; wors.h.i.+p, homage, glorification; paean. Antonyms: condemnation, dispraise, disapprobation, disparagement, denunciation, animadversion, stricture.
praise, v. laud, extol, commend, eulogize, panegyrize, applaud; magnify, glorify. Antonyms: condemn, denounce, disparage, deprecate, criticize.
praiser, n. eulogist, panegyrist, extoller, encomiast, lauder.
praiseworthy, a. laudable, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
prance, v. cavort.
prank, n. trickpracticable, a. feasible.
practical, a. pragmatical. Antonyms: impractical, Utopian, chimerical.
practice, n. custom, usage, habit; exercise, application, drill, rehearsal.
practice, v. exercise, apply, do, train, drill, rehea.r.s.e.
praise, n. commendation, laudation, approbation, encomium, panegyric, eulogy, applause, laud, acclaim, eclat, plaudit, compliment, acclamation, puff, flattery; wors.h.i.+p, homage, glorification; paean. Antonyms: condemnation, dispraise, disapprobation, disparagement, denunciation, animadversion, stricture.
praise, v. laud, extol, commend, eulogize, panegyrize, applaud; magnify, glorify. Antonyms: condemn, denounce, disparage, deprecate, criticize.
praiser, n. eulogist, panegyrist, extoller, encomiast, lauder.
praiseworthy, a. laudable, commendable. Antonyms: illaudable, unpraiseworthy, indign.
prance, v. cavort.
prank, n. trick, antic, frolic, caper.
prankish, a. playful, frolicsome, sportive, mischievous, gamesome.
prate, v. babble, gabble, clatter, chatter, prattle. See talk.
prate, n. chatter, gabble, babble, twaddle.
pray, v. invoke, supplicate, entreat, implore, beg, pet.i.tion, intercede.
pray against. deprecate.
prayer, n. invocation, orison, collect, suffrage, supplication, obsecration; litany, rogation, rosary, euchologion, secreta; entreaty, intercession.
preach, v. exhort.
preacher, n. homilist, exhorter, predicant, pulpiteer; missionary, evangelist, revivalist.
preaching, n. sermon, homily, exhortation. a.s.sociated Words: homiletics, homiletic.
precarious, a. uncertain, insecure, una.s.sured, doubtful
preceding, a. foregoing.
