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Glossary

This is the Skillswise Glossary, where you'll find the meaning of difficult words used on this website.

pace
package holiday
Pandoraï¿½s box
paparazzi
paralyse
parenting skills
parlance
participant
participate
partnership
passengers of size
patently
patronise
penalise
pending
pension
pensioners
per cent (%)
percentage
perilously
periphery
perk
permit
persist
persistent
personnel
persuasive
petition
phase out
phenomenal
phenomenon
phone poll
physical
pilot
pilot scheme
pinnacle
pint
pioneer
pirate (verb)
piste
pits
planetarium
plank
planning permission
platinum
pledge
pledge
plot
plug-in
plural
pneumonia
poet laureate
point-to-point race
policy
politically-incorrect
poll
pollution
population
portray
poser
positive
possession
post-war
potential
power vacuum
practice
practise
predator
prediction
predominantly
pre-industrial state
preliminary
preliminary
premier
premiere
Premiership
preoccupied
prescription tranquillizer
preserve
prestige
prestigious
presumptive
pretender
prevailing
prevalent
previous
price
prime time
primitive
printed media
priority
privatisation
probability
procedure
procreation
producer
profession
professional
profile (verb)
profit
prohibit
promotion
prompt
prompt
proportion
proposal
prospective
protein
province
provisionally
psychiatric
psychiatrist
psychologist
psychosis
publicist
publicist
publicity
purchase


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