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  1. sagacity
    the trait of having wisdom and good judgment
    The court demonstrated the sagacity of the chap who once described an "expert" as anyone 50 miles away from home and upheld the health-care measure, except for narrowing the proviso expanding Medicaid.
  2. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
    -She is not exactly sanguine on the future of China. -In South Korea, new president Park Geun-hye was far less sanguine about the North Korean threat.
    If you're sanguine about a situation, that means you're optimistic that everything's going to work out fine.
  3. summon
    ask to come
    What America saw Thursday night was the model of how a political debate should be conducted, with a format that encourages direct interaction, and a moderator who can summon details to inform a question.
    Answer.com: summon, summons
    Summon is a verb only, whereas summons is a noun and verb. A summons (plural summonses) is an order to appear before a judge or magistrate, and to summons someone is to issue them with a summons. Summon is the ordinary word meaning 'to call formally', as in The ambassadors were summoned to theWhite House, and (typically with up) in the figurative sense of evoking a reaction or feeling within oneself (could not summon up the energy to reply).
  4. serendipitous
    lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
    It's really about my upbrining and certain things that happened and how that coalesced, in many cases serendipitously, to lead to the creation of Southwest Airlines and what happened thereafter.
    Tagalog: naswertihan, natiempohan
  5. subliminal
    below the threshold of conscious perception
    Once my teacher said that we don’t have to look up every word we don’t understand , it is enough to guess what it means using the context and it will go subliminally to your memory ..you will be somehow familiar with it if you see it again.
    Additional Note: The changing pictures dominate awareness at first, letting the still image register subliminally before popping into consciousness
  6. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
    Glo and I communicate sporadically but everytime we have a chance to chat with, it is always with substance.
  7. scrumptious
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
    Sherry's Scrumptious Shrimp Sauce for Past Recipe
  8. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
    One of the things a freshman learns upon arriving at school is the unique legal boundaries that envelop most colleges in the United States: all campus buildings and students are policed by the University Police, non-students and the surrounding community is policed by the City of Cambridge Police. As I approached my destination, I surmised that a serious crime must have occurred in Grays Hall for the police to be violating that boundary
    Tagalog: haka-haka, sa palagay, hula
Created on Sun Jul 01 15:46:17 EDT 2012 (updated Thu Aug 28 23:21:25 EDT 2014)

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