SAT "S" words (Large collection)

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  1. saccharine
    overly sweet
  2. sacrilegious
    grossly irreverent toward what is considered holy
  3. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  4. sage
    a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics
  5. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  6. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  7. salvage
    rescuing a ship or its crew from a shipwreck or a fire
  8. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  9. sanction
    official permission or approval
  10. sanctuary
    a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
  11. sarcasm
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  12. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  13. satirical
    exposing human folly to ridicule
  14. saturate
    infuse or fill completely
  15. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  16. savant
    a learned person
  17. savory
    pleasing to the sense of taste
  18. scanty
    lacking in extent or quantity
  19. scapegoat
    someone who is punished for the errors of others
  20. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  21. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  22. scrutinize
    examine carefully for accuracy
  23. seamy
    morally degraded
  24. seclusion
    the act of isolating oneself from others
  25. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  26. sedentary
    requiring sitting or little activity
  27. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  28. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  29. sequester
    keep away from others
  30. seraph
    an angel of the first order
  31. serenity
    the absence of mental stress or anxiety
  32. servile
    submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
  33. sever
    set or keep apart
  34. severity
    excessive sternness
  35. shrewd
    marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
  36. simian
    relating to or resembling an ape or a monkey
  37. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  38. singular
    being a single and separate person or thing
  39. skeptical
    marked by or given to doubt
  40. slacken
    become slow or slower
  41. slander
    words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
  42. slothful
    disinclined to work or exertion
  43. sluggish
    moving slowly
  44. sobriquet
    a familiar name for a person
  45. sojourn
    a temporary stay
  46. solace
    comfort offered to one who is disappointed or miserable
  47. solemnity
    a trait of dignified seriousness
  48. solicit
    request urgently or persistently
  49. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  50. solitude
    a state of social isolation
  51. soluble
    capable of being dissolved in some solvent
  52. somber
    serious and gloomy in character
  53. sophomore
    a second-year undergraduate
  54. sparse
    not dense or plentiful
  55. spartan
    unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
  56. specious
    plausible but false
  57. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  58. spontaneity
    the quality of coming from feelings without constraint
  59. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  60. sportive
    given to merry frolicking
  61. spurious
    plausible but false
  62. spurn
    reject with contempt
  63. squalid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  64. squalor
    sordid dirtiness
  65. squander
    spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  66. stagnant
    not growing or changing; without force or vitality
  67. stalwart
    having rugged physical strength
  68. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  69. steadfast
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  70. stifle
    impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
  71. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  72. stipulate
    make an express demand or provision in an agreement
  73. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  74. straddle
    sit or stand astride of
  75. stratify
    form, arrange, or deposit in layers
  76. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  77. stringent
    demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
  78. strut
    walk in a proud, confident way
  79. stupefy
    make someone dazed or foolish
  80. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
  81. subdued
    restrained in style or quality
  82. submissive
    inclined or willing to give in to orders or wishes of others
  83. subordinate
    an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
  84. subside
    wear off or die down
  85. substantial
    real; having a material or factual existence
  86. substantiate
    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  87. subterranean
    being or operating under the surface of the earth
  88. subtlety
    the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
  89. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  90. sully
    make dirty or spotty
  91. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  92. superficial
    of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
  93. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  94. supersede
    take the place or move into the position of
  95. supplant
    take the place or move into the position of
  96. supple
    moving and bending with ease
  97. suppress
    put down by force or authority
  98. surmount
    get on top of; deal with successfully
  99. surpass
    be or do something to a greater degree
  100. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  101. susceptible
    yielding readily to or capable of undergoing a process
  102. sustain
    lengthen or extend in duration or space
  103. swindler
    a person who steals by means of deception or fraud
  104. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  105. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  106. symmetry
    balance among the parts of something
Created on Sun Nov 18 16:55:31 EST 2012

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