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and Lower House or chamber: The United States parliament
consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
parliamentary
adj. formal, ordered, orderly, procedural, conforming,
conformist, US according to Roberts Rules of Order: The debate
must follow parliamentary procedure.
parlour n. living-room, Old-fashioned or Brit drawing-room, Chiefly
Brit sitting-room, reception (room), lounge: She invited us
into the parlour where tea was laid out.
parlous adj. perilous, risky, precarious, uncertain, dangerous,
hazardous, difficult, ticklish, awkward, Colloq chancy, iffy,
Slang hairy: These are parlous times in the Middle East.
parochial adj. regional, provincial, narrow, local, insular, isolated,
limited, restricted, narrow-minded, petty, short-sighted,
hidebound, conservative, conventional, illiberal, bigoted,
prejudiced, intolerant, one-sided, partial, biased, stubborn,
opinionated, dogmatic, rigid, stiff, stiff-necked, immovable,
intractable, unchangeable, unchanging, close-minded,
unsophisticated, unworldly, uncultivated, uncultured:
Uneducated and untravelled, Mr Shriver maintained a very
parochial view of the world.
parody n. 1 burlesque, lampoon, satire, caricature, mockery, mimicry,
Colloq take-off, spoof, Brit send-up: The more serious the
intent of the original author's work, the easier it is to write
a parody of it. 2 travesty, mockery, feeble or poor imitation,
distortion, perversion, corruption, debasement: The Inquisition
was a parody of justice and of religion.
--v. 3 burlesque, lampoon, satirize, caricature, mock, mimic,
ape, ridicule, deride, laugh at, poke fun at, guy, scoff at,
sneer at, rib, tease, twit, roast, pillory, make a
laughing-stock (of), make sport of, make fun of, make a monkey
(out) of, Archaic fleer, Colloq take off, spoof, kid, Brit send
up: Swift parodied English political figures and policies of
the day in Gulliver's Travels .
paroxysm n. fit, convulsion, spasm, throe, seizure, spell, outburst,
eruption, explosion, Colloq flare-up: At the sight of George