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Pain: 1. A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder 2. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid 3. A somatic sensation of acute discomfort 4. A bothersome annoying person 5. Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness 6. Cause bodily suffering to 7. Cause anguish;, make miserable 8. Provides a basis for comparison when we are joyful. (Just For Today Pg.287)

Panel: 1. A distinct (usually flat) section or component of something 2. A committee appointed to judge a competition 3. a group of people summoned for jury service 4. A group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc

Panic: 1. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety 2. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events 3. Feel panic 3. Cause panic in; fill with panic

Paradox: 1. (in logic) a self-contradiction

Parallel: 1. Something having the property of being analogous to something else

Paranoia: 1. A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur

Parody: 1. A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way 2. Humorous or satirical mimicry 3. Make a spoof of; make fun of 4. Make a parody of

Particular: 1. A fact about some part (as opposed to general) 2. A small part that can be considered separately from the whole 3. Unique or specific to a person or thing or category 4. Separate and distinct from others 5. Surpassing what is common or usual or expected 6. First and most important 7. Exacting especially about details 8. Providing specific details or circumstances

Passive: 1. The voice used to indicate that the subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb 2. Lacking in energy or will 3. Peacefully resistant in response to injustice 4. (grammar) passive voice

Patience: 1. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Patient: 1. Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance 2. Enduring without protest or complaint

Patterns: 1. Plan or create according to a model or models 2. A customary way of operation or behavior

Peace: 1. The state prevailing during the absence of war 2. Harmonious relations; freedom from disputes 3. The absence of mental stress or anxiety

People pleasing: 1. We’re dishonest and manipulative. We lie about our feelings, our beliefs, and our needs trying to soothe others into compliance with our wishes. . (Just For Today Pg.358)

Perceive: 1. To become aware of through the senses 2. Become conscious of

Perception: 1. The representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept 2. A way of conceiving something 3. The process of perceiving 4. Knowledge gained by perceiving 5. Becoming aware of something via the senses

Perfection: 1. The state of being without a flaw or defect 2. An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept 3. The act of making something perfect 4. Is not an attainable state for human beings; it’s not a realistic goal. (Just For Today Pg.331)

Periodically: 1. In a sporadic manner

Perish: 1. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Permanently: 1. For a long time without essential change

Perplexity: 1. Trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

Perseverance: 1. Be persistent, refuse to stop

Persistent: 1. Never-ceasing 2.continually recurring to the mind

Personal: 1. Concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality 2. Particular to a given individual 3. Of or arising from personality 4. Intimately concerning a person's body or physical being 5. Indicating grammatical person

Personality: 1. The complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual 2. A person of considerable prominence

Perspective: 1. A way of regarding situations or topics etc. 2. The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

Persuasive: 1. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief 2. Capable of convincing

Pitfall: 1. An unforeseen or unexpected difficulty 2. A trap in the form of a concealed hole

Placate: 1. Cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Placating: 1. Tending or intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions

Plagued: 1. Cause to suffer a blight 2. Annoy continually or chronically

Pleasure: 1. Cause to suffer a blight 2. Annoy continually or chronically 3. troubled by or encroached upon in large numbers

Policy: 1. A line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government 2. A plan of action adopted by an individual or social group 3. Written contract or certificate of insurance

Possible: 1. Something that can be done 2. An applicant who might be suitable 3. Capable of happening or existing 4. Existing in possibility 5. Possible to conceive or imagine

Potential: 1. The inherent capacity for coming into being 2. Existing in possibility

Power: 1. One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority 2. Supply the force or power for the functioning of 3. Supplementing or replacing manual effort (see higher)

Powerless: 1. Lacking power 2. When the driving force in our life is beyond our control. (Step Working Guides Pg.3)

Powerlessness: 1. The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble 2. Using drugs against our will (Basic Text Pg.20)

Practical: 1. Concerned with actual use or practice 2. Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory 3. Being actually such in almost every respect 4. Having or put to a practical purpose or use

Practice: 1. A customary way of operation or behavior 2. Systematic training by multiple repetitions 3. Translating an idea into action

Prayer: 1. The act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) 2. Earnest or urgent request 3. A fixed text used in praying 4. Someone who prays to God 5. Communicating our concerns to a power greater than ourselves (Basic Text Pg.44) 6. Asking for Gods help (Basic Text pg.44) 7. The times we talk to a Higher Power (It Works How & Why Pg.109) 8. Is widely accepted in our Fellowship as a description of the way we communicate with our Higher Power. (Step working Guides Pg.65) 9. Talking to our Higher Power, though not always in the form of actual speech. (Step Working Guides Pg.110) 10. Keeps us connected to our Higher Power. (Just For Today Pg.380)

Precedence: 1. Status established in order of importance or urgency 2. Preceding in time 3. The act of preceding

Precepts: 1. Rule of personal conduct 2. A doctrine that is taught

Preconceived: 1. (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice

Prefer: 1. Like better; value more highly 2. Select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative 3. Promote over another 4. Give preference to one creditor over another; in law

Preliminary:1. A minor match preceding the main event 2. Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows 3. Designed to orient or acquaint with the a situation before proceeding

Preparation: 1. The activity of preparing 2. The cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening 3. Activity leading to skilled behavior

Preserving: 1. The activity of protecting something from loss or danger 2. Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last 3. Keep in perfect or unaltered condition 4. To keep up and reserve for personal or special use 5. Prevent from rotting, of foods 6. Maintain in safety form injury, harm, or danger 7. Saving from harm or loss

Prestige: 1. A high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.

Pride: 1. A feeling of self-respect and personal worth 2. Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements 3. The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards 4. Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Primarily: 1. For the most part 2. Of primary import

Primary: 1. Of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondhand 2. Not derived from or reducible to something else; basic 3. Most important element 4. Of or being the essential or basic part

Principles before personalities: 1. We practice honesty, humility, compassion, tolerance, and patience with everyone, whether we like them or not. (Just For Today Pg.311)

Principles: 1. A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for

Priority: 1. Status established in order of importance or urgency 2. Preceding in time

Privilege: 1. A special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all

Process: 1. A particular course of action intended to achieve a results 2. A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes 3. The performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents 4. A mental process that you are not directly aware of 5. Deal with in a routine way 6. Subject to a process or treatment, often with the aim of readying for some purpose 7. Shape, form, or improve something

Procrastination: 1. Slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it

Productive: 1. Yielding positive results 2. Marked by great fruitfulness

Professional: 1. A person engaged in one of the learned professions 2. An athlete who plays for pay 3. An authority qualified to teach apprentices 4. Engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood 5. Of or relating to or suitable as a profession 6. Characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession 7. Of or relating to a profession 8. Engaged in by members of a profession

Profound: 1.Showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being 2. Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

Program: 1. A system of projects or services intended to meet a public need 2. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished 3. A course of academic studies

Progress: 1. Gradual improvement or growth or development 2. The act of moving forward toward a goal 3. A movement forward

Progressive: 1. Gradually advancing in extent 2. Of illness; marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function 3. Advancing in severity

Projection: 1. A prediction made by extrapolating from past observations 2. A planned undertaking 3. Anything that branches out from a central support 4. A defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

Promise: 1. A verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future 2. Grounds for feeling hopeful about the future 3. Make a promise or commitment

Promotion: 1. A message issued in behalf of some product or cause or institution 2. Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something 3. The advancement of some enterprise

Prompt: 1. A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) 2. (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command 3. Give an incentive 4. Serve as the inciting cause of 5. Assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned 6. According to schedule or without delay 7. Characterized by speed and efficiency 8. Quick in apprehending or reacting 9. Performed with little or no delay

Promptly: 1. With little or no delay 2. In a punctual manner 3. At once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence) see admit

Pronouncement: 1. An authoritative declaration

Proportion: 1. The quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole 2. Magnitude or extent 3. Balance among the parts of something 4. Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) 5. Give pleasant proportions to 6. Adjust in size relative to other things

Protected: 1. Shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage 2. Kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss 3. Guarded from injury or destruction

Protective: 1. Intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind 2. Showing a care 3. (usually followed by 'of') solicitously caring or mindful

Proven: 1. Be shown or be found to be 2. Establish the validity of something 3. Provide evidence for 3. Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof 4. Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to 5. Established beyond doubt

Prudence: 1. Discretion in practical affairs 2. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress

Prudent: 1. Careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment 2. Showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence

Purpose: 1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or guides your planned actions 2. What something is used for 3. The quality of being determined to do or achieve something

Purpose: 1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or guides your planned actions 2. What something is used for 3. The quality of being determined to do or achieve something 4. Propose or intend 5. Reach a decision

Pursued: 1. A person who is being chased 2. Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in 3. Follow in or as if in pursuit 4. Carry further or advance 5. Followed with enmity as if to harm