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Sixth Level Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 33 |
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| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| painstaking | adj. | She checked each item with painstaking care. | thorough |
| pang | noun | When he moved his foot he felt a pang of pain. | twinge |
| parish | noun | He lived in a rural parish. | community |
| parlor | noun | She sat in the parlor with her friends. | front room |
| parson | noun | The parson came to visit us at our home. | cleric |
| pastry | noun | The boy enjoyed eating pastry. | cookies, cake |
| pavilion | noun | We visited a number of pavilions in China. | structure or building |
| peacock | noun | The peacock strutted showing all his ornate feathers. | type of bird |
| peg | verb | We must peg down the tent before the storm. | fasten with stakes |
| noun | We needed another peg for our tent. | stake | |