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Pershing
- noun - United States general who commanded the American forces in Europe during World War I (1860-1948)
Perusing
- verb - examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure"
- Look over
- reading carefully with intent to remember
Pestling
- verb - grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic"
Petering
- unknown - Gradually dwindle.
Phishing
- unknown - attempting to get confidential information by sending fake emails
Phrasing
- verb - divide, combine, or mark into phrases; "phrase a musical passage"
- put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
- the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line
- the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton
Pickling
- verb - preserve in a pickling liquid
Piddling
- verb - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had peed on the expensive rug"
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
Piercing
- verb - cut or make a way through; "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
- make a hole into; "The needle pierced her flesh"
- move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply; "The cold pierced her bones"; "Her words pierced the students"
- painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
- penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
- sound sharply or shrilly; "The scream pierced the night"
Piffling
- verb - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- act in a trivial or ineffective way
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly