Find the 2-syllable word, each of which starts with "P"!!!

This is last Sunday's on-air challenge puzzle from NPR! 

Every answer is a two-syllable word, in which each syllable starts with the letter 'P.'

Ex. Father  -->  PAPA

   

    1.  Partner of salt

    2.  Center of the eye

    3.  Human beings

    4.  Relating to Vatican affairs

    5.  Shade akin to lavender

    6.  Minister's spot when delivering a sermon

    7.  Baby dog

    8.  Flower that's the source of opium

    9.  Dismiss as unimportant (hyph.)

   10. Something to write on

   11. Very poor person

   12. Dote on, as a child

   13. Slang for the "eye"

   14.  Intention

   15.  Intelligent sea creature

   16.  Low grasslands of South America

   17.  Affecting a sense of self-importance

   18.  Necessity for traveling abroad

   19.  One means of completing online purchases

   20.  Something waved by a cheerleader

 

 

Answer Keys

    1.  Pepper

    2.  Pupil

    3.  People

    4.  Papal

    5.  Purple

    6.  Pulpit

    7.  Puppy

    8.  Poppy

    9.  Poo-poo

   10.  Paper

   11.  Pauper

   12.  Pamper

   13.  Peeper

   14.  Purpose

   15.  Porpoise

   16.   Pampas

   17.    Pompous

   18.    Passport

   19.   Pay pal

   20.   Pompom