Chapter Pelt to Peril of P by Soule's Synonymes

Pension, n.

1. Allowance (from a government for past services), annuity.

2. Boarding-house.

Pensive, a.

1. Thoughtful, meditative, reflective, dreamy, sober.

2. Expressive of sadness, sad, serious, grave, mournful, melancholy, solemn, triste.

Pentagonal, a. Five-angled, five-cornered, five-sided, pentangular, pentagonous.

Pentecost, n. Whitsuntide, Whit-Sunday, pinxter.

Pent-house, n. Lean-to.

Pent-roof, n. Shed-roof.

Penult, n. Penultima, penultimate, last syllable but one, penultimate syllable.

Penultima, Penultimate, n. See Penult.

Penurious, a.

1. Niggard, scanty, insufficient, inadequate, meagre, ill-provided, poor, stinted.

2. Parsimonious, covetous, avaricious, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, sordid, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, close-fisted, hard-fisted, grasping, near.

Penury, n. Indigence, destitution, extreme poverty, want, need.

People, n.

1. Tribe, nation, race, clan, family.

2. Population, folks, persons, the public, the community, the bulk of mankind.

3. Commonalty, populace.

4. Rabble, mob, the vulgar, vulgar herd, lower classes, humbler classes, the multitude, the million, the many the crowd, the masses, canaille.

5. Persons, men, folks (collog.).