Word List-42 (selected words only)

Lion (India)
GRE Barron's 15th ed.
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  1. saga
    a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family
  2. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  3. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  4. sallow
    unhealthy looking
  5. salubrious
    promoting health
  6. salutary
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  7. salvage
    rescuing a ship or its crew from a shipwreck or a fire
  8. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  9. sanctuary
    a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
  10. sang-froid
    great coolness and composure under strain
  11. sanguinary
    accompanied by bloodshed
  12. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  13. sap
    a watery fluid that circulates in a plant
  14. sarcophagus
    a stone coffin, usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions
  15. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  16. sartorial
    of or relating to tailoring or clothing
  17. sate
    fill to contentment
  18. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  19. satirical
    exposing human folly to ridicule
  20. satyr
    one of a class of woodland deities
  21. saunter
    walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
  22. savant
    a learned person
  23. savoir-faire
    social skill
  24. savor
    a particular taste or smell, especially an appealing one
  25. savory
    pleasing to the sense of taste
  26. scabbard
    a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet
  27. scad
    any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
  28. scaffold
    a temporary arrangement erected around a building
  29. scavenge
    clean refuse from
  30. schism
    division of a group into opposing factions
  31. scintilla
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  32. scintillate
    emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  33. scion
    a descendent or heir
  34. scoff
    laugh at with contempt and derision
  35. scotch
    hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
  36. scourge
    something causing misery or death
  37. scruple
    an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
  38. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  39. scuffle
    fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters
  40. scullion
    a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks
  41. scurrilous
    expressing offensive, insulting, or scandalous criticism
  42. scurry
    move about or proceed hurriedly
  43. scuttle
    move about or proceed hurriedly
  44. seamy
    morally degraded
  45. sear
    become superficially burned (also figurative)
  46. seasoned
    aged or processed
  47. sebaceous
    containing an unusual amount of grease or oil
  48. secession
    formal separation from an alliance or federation
  49. secrete
    conceal or place out of sight
  50. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  51. sedate
    characterized by dignity and propriety
  52. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  53. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  54. seedy
    shabby and untidy
  55. seemly
    according with custom or propriety
  56. seep
    pass gradually or leak or as if through small openings
  57. seethe
    foam as if boiling
  58. semblance
    the outward or apparent appearance or form of something
  59. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  60. sensual
    marked by the appetites and passions of the body
  61. sensuous
    providing perceptible pleasure or gratification
  62. sententious
    concise and full of meaning
  63. sentient
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  64. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  65. sentry
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  66. sepulcher
    a chamber that is used as a grave
Created on Tue May 21 09:51:53 EDT 2013 (updated Fri May 24 02:37:11 EDT 2013)

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