Proscribe - prohibit, banish, outlaw
Usage - Father has proscribed any telephone calls from being made after 10 p.m.
Link - When you want a magazine, you PREscribe(subscribe) it. Similarly when you want to stop it, you will have to PROSCRIBE..SO PROSCRIBE = prohibit
Link2 - A doctor Prescribes medicines and Proscribes unhealthy food......
Proselytize - to try to persuade people to accept your beliefs
Usage - Mahatma Gandhi’s writings have the power to proselytize anyone to the principals of non-violence.
Link - sounds like ti(taiji)+roz(daily)+layi(to bring)+rose....taiji roz rose layi to proselytize us...
Prostrate - lying on ground and facing downwards
Usage - She prostrated herself with frustration
Link - while doing it you lie straight on ground and facing downward....
Protean - able to take on many forms, versatile
Usage - The protean nature of clouds makes them a delight to watch.
Link - If you eat proteins rather than carbohydrates you will be strong and flexible(versatile) rather than fat...
Provenance - place of origin
Usage - Scientific examination of the piece of pottery found indicated that it was of Greek provenance.
Link - sounds like province+ance, remember when someone asks you: where do you belong to or to which province do you belong to?..which means whats your origin?...
Provender - dry food for livestock, fodder
Usage - The farmer spent the morning in the store room checking up on the farm’s provender.
Link - Some vendors sell dry food and hence product sold by a vendor = Provender...
Prowess - extraordinary ability
Usage - Napoleon Bonaparte’s military and political prowess came to an end when he lost the Battle of Waterloo against the Anglo-Allied army.
Link - sounds like POWERS....the one having extraordinary powers is a prowess...
Prude - excessively modest or proper person (who is easily shocked by improper things, esp. of a sexual nature), person who doesn't want to listen about sex
Usage - The people of the Victorian Age were such prudes
Link - prude people often becomes rude when we start talking about sex in front of them...
Prune - to remove dead parts of a plant, trim
Usage - The gardener visited the house every Sunday to prune the garden.
Link - sounds like SALOON, where barber CUT(TRIM) our hair...
Link2 - the ruined plants were pruned...
Prurient - salacious, having or causing lustful desires and thoughts
Usage - The moral science teacher asked her students to stay away from prurient literature and films that tend to corrupt young minds.
Link - Aunty ro ri thi because my uncle had excessive prurient desires....she was so much exhausted...
Pry - inquire impertinently (someone else's private affairs)
Usage - The carpenter used the pry bar to pull out all the nails from the wood.
Link - sounds like spy who interferes in others' private affairs and also OPENS up some secrets...
Link2 - paray neighbours pry in other's private life...
Puerile - childish, callow
Usage - He speaks in a puerile manner, with a pronounced lisp.
Link - sounds like pure....PURE things are always childish and immature.
Pugnacity - having strong desire to argue or fight
Usage - Kumar’s pugnacity made him very unpopular with his colleagues in the office, and they avoided him like the plague.
Link - Reverse 'gn' to 'ng' to make- 'punga'-'city' ( quarrelsome place)....here everyone will have affinity to take punga from each other..hence people will be pugnacious...
Pulchritude - beauty, comedy, loveliness
Usage - Princess Diana’s pulchritude combined with her gentle nature won her admiration the world over.
Link - pulchritude of Aishwarya because of her palak(eyelids) and attitude..
Pulverize - to destroy completely, crush or grind into very small particles
Usage - Grandmother believes in pulverizing coffee beans in the grinder at home to get freshly ground coffee powder.
Link - sounds like powderize...hence is the meaning....
Link2 - sounds like pal bhar mein....India pulverized Pakistan in pal bhar...
Pummel - to beat or pound with fists
Usage - The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators
Link - imagine yourself BEATING PUMMELa Anderson Boobs with your FISTS....Pummel=punch+pamela....
Punctilious - very careful, scrupulous
Usage - Tom’s punctilious table etiquette put all the other children to shame.
Link - sounds like PUNCTUAL...and you pay attention to even a person who is 1 second late, that shows that you care for even very minute things too...
Punitive - punishing
Usage - The United States had served a warning to Iran to either stop its nuclear developments or face punitive measures.
Link - sounds like punit+ive(eve)..when Punit decided to become an eve(chakka in hindi)...he was thrashed by his parents....
Puny - tiny, weak
Usage - All the healthy puppies were sold, and only the puny, black one remained.
Link - sounds like "pony" tail which is small and tiny...
Purport - intention, purpose, meaning
Usage - The general purport of his lecture was to warn us about the evils of smoking.
Link - I purported that I blasted the airport after the officials stopped me from going abroad...
Puritan - person who hates pleasure
Usage - He is a puritan
Link - Mr puri is a puritan as he refused to do it with a hot pari...he doesn't use his pura tan(body)....
Putative - supposed, generally assumed
Usage - The putative leader behind the recent bomb blast was arrested yesterday.
Link - putative place of RAM SETU....
Link2 - sounds like put-a-ti(tea)..so we are PRESUPPOSED to put tea on the table not on the floor...
Purloin - to steal something
Usage - He has a habit of purloining things
Link - He purloined a lion from the zoo
Pylon - metal structure for supporting wires
Link - PI shaped pylon in the lawn...
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