Norman Lewis - Medium Difficulty (4) S-Z

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  1. sanctimonious
    excessively or hypocritically pious
  2. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  3. scrutinize
    examine carefully for accuracy
  4. secular
    someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
  5. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  6. sentient
    endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  7. sequester
    keep away from others
  8. serendipity
    good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
  9. singular
    being a single and separate person or thing
  10. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  11. solvent
    capable of meeting financial obligations
  12. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
  13. specious
    plausible but false
  14. spurious
    plausible but false
  15. squalor
    sordid dirtiness
  16. squander
    spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  17. staunch
    firm and dependable especially in loyalty
  18. steadfast
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
  19. stigmatize
    condemn or openly brand as disgraceful
  20. stipulate
    make an express demand or provision in an agreement
  21. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
  22. stricture
    a principle that restricts the extent of something
  23. strife
    bitter conflict; heated or violent dissension
  24. stymie
    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
  25. subjugate
    make subservient; force to submit or subdue
  26. subversive
    in opposition to an established system or government
  27. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  28. supercilious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  29. surfeit
    indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
  30. surreptitious
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  31. surrogate
    someone or something that takes the place of another
  32. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  33. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  34. tantamount
    being essentially equal to something
  35. temerity
    fearless daring
  36. temperate
    not extreme
  37. tenable
    based on sound reasoning or evidence
  38. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  39. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
  40. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  41. extenuate
    lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or degree of
  42. terse
    brief and to the point
  43. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  44. touchstone
    a basis for comparison
  45. tout
    advertise in strongly positive terms
  46. transgress
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  47. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
  48. unconscionable
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  49. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  50. unremitting
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  51. unwitting
    not aware or knowing
  52. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  53. verisimilitude
    the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
  54. vestige
    an indication that something has been present
  55. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  56. vicarious
    experienced at secondhand
  57. vilify
    spread negative information about
  58. virulent
    extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  59. vitiate
    make imperfect
  60. volition
    the act of making a choice
  61. wanton
    a lewd or immoral person
  62. wistful
    showing pensive sadness
Created on Wed Oct 09 08:29:02 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Oct 17 13:31:12 EDT 2013)

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