pinnacle The most successful point; the culmination. pillory A wooden framework with holes for the head and hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse pilfer To steal things of little value or in small amounts, often again and again piebald Having irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white. picayune Of little value or importance; petty; trivial picaresque Relating to a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish, but appealing hero, typically of low social class, who lives by their wits in a corrupt society. physiological Relating to the normal functions of living organisms and their parts phlegmatic Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition philander To engage in love affairs frivolously or casually petulant Having or showing the attitude of people who become angry and annoyed when they do not get what they want