Word Power Made Easy - S words

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  1. saccharine
    overly sweet
  2. sacrilege
    blasphemous behavior
  3. sacrosanct
    treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
  4. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  5. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  6. salutary
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  7. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  8. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  9. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  10. scintillate
    emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  11. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  12. scrutinize
    examine carefully for accuracy
  13. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  14. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  15. sensory
    relating to or concerned in sensation
  16. sentient
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  17. sequester
    keep away from others
  18. serendipity
    good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
  19. servile
    submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
  20. singular
    being a single and separate person or thing
  21. slander
    words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
  22. sloth
    a disinclination to work or exert yourself
  23. sobriety
    the state of being unaffected or not intoxicated by alcohol
  24. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  25. solvent
    capable of meeting financial obligations
  26. soporific
    inducing sleep
  27. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  28. spawn
    the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or mollusks
  29. specious
    plausible but false
  30. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  31. spurious
    plausible but false
  32. squalor
    sordid dirtiness
  33. squander
    spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  34. stagnation
    a state of inactivity
  35. static
    not in physical motion
  36. staunch
    firm and dependable especially in loyalty
  37. steadfast
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  38. stigmatize
    condemn or openly brand as disgraceful
  39. stipulate
    make an express demand or provision in an agreement
  40. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  41. stratum
    one of several parallel layers of material
  42. stricture
    a principle that restricts the extent of something
  43. strife
    bitter conflict; heated or violent dissension
  44. stringent
    demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
  45. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
  46. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  47. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
  48. subordinate
    an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
  49. substantive
    having a firm basis in reality and therefore important
  50. subtle
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  51. subversive
    in opposition to an established system or government
  52. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  53. succumb
    give in, as to overwhelming force, influence, or pressure
  54. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  55. superficial
    of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
  56. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  57. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  58. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  59. surrogate
    someone or something that takes the place of another
  60. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  61. synthesis
    the combination of ideas into a complex whole
Created on Sun May 06 01:52:19 EDT 2012

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