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GRE Word List - 227

1. papyrus - The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.

2. parable - A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.

3. paradox - A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.

4. paragon - A model of excellence.

5. parallel - To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.

6. parallelism - Essential likeness.

7. paralysis - Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.

8. paralyze - To deprive of the power to act.

9. paramount - Supreme in authority.

10. paramour - One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.

11. paraphernalia - Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.

12. paraphrase - Translate freely.

13. pare - To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.

14. parentage - The relation of parent to child, of the producer to the produced, or of cause to effect.

15. Pariah - A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.

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