Princeton Review Word Smart 2nd Edition S

Jayakarthigayan S. (India)
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  1. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  2. salacious
    suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
  3. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  4. salubrious
    promoting health
  5. scurvy
    a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid
  6. sap
    a watery fluid that circulates in a plant
  7. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  8. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  9. salutary
    tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  10. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  11. sanctimony
    the quality of being hypocritically pious or devout
  12. satiate
    fill to satisfaction
  13. seine
    a large fishnet that hangs vertically
  14. sanction
    official permission or approval
  15. sedulous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  16. singular
    being a single and separate person or thing
  17. shard
    a broken piece of a brittle artifact
  18. seminal
    influential and providing a basis for later development
  19. sinuous
    curved or curving in and out
  20. simper
    smile in an insincere, unnatural, or coy way
  21. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  22. sere
    having lost all moisture
  23. sodden
    wet through and through; thoroughly wet
  24. slake
    satisfy, as thirst
  25. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  26. specious
    plausible but false
  27. solder
    join or fuse with an alloy
  28. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  29. sophistry
    a deliberately invalid argument in the hope of deceiving
  30. soporific
    inducing sleep
  31. solvent
    capable of meeting financial obligations
  32. sparse
    not dense or plentiful
  33. sophomore
    a second-year undergraduate
  34. splenetic
    of or relating to the spleen
  35. stanch
    stop the flow of a liquid
  36. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  37. sporadic
    recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
  38. squander
    spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  39. squalid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  40. spurious
    plausible but false
  41. static
    not in physical motion
  42. stint
    supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  43. striate
    marked with stripes
  44. steep
    having a sharp inclination
  45. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  46. stupefy
    make someone dazed or foolish
  47. stentorian
    very loud or booming
  48. strut
    walk in a proud, confident way
  49. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
  50. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  51. sundry
    consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  52. subpoena
    a writ issued to compel the attendance of a witness
  53. supplant
    take the place or move into the position of
  54. succor
    assistance in time of difficulty
  55. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  56. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  57. supine
    lying face upward
  58. subtle
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  59. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  60. suppliant
    humbly entreating
  61. supplicant
    someone who prays to God
  62. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  63. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  64. synthesis
    the combination of ideas into a complex whole
Created on Tue Sep 10 00:16:53 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Sep 10 00:21:59 EDT 2013)

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