precatory
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～ expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"
precautional
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～ taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure; "gave precautionary advice"; "I would take precautionary steps to keep him away"
precautionary
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～ taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure; "gave precautionary advice"; "I would take precautionary steps to keep him away"
precedent
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～ preceding in time, order, or significance
precedented
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～ having or supported or justified by a precedent
precedential
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～ having precedence (especially because of longer service); "precedential treatment for senior members of the firm"
preceding
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～ existing or coming before
preceding
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～ of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"
precious
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～ obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
precious
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～ of high worth or cost; "diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds are precious stones"
precious
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～ held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature; "a valued friend"; "precious memories"
precious
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～ characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"
precipitant
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～ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitate
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～ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitating
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～ bringing on suddenly or abruptly; "the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce"
precipitous
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～ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitous
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～ extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
precise
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～ (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
precise
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～ sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"
preclinical
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～ of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared