SAT words "S" part 2

Police have clamped down on demonstrations, and lingering unrest has been sporadic and scattered.

Sedan.—No genuine stamps ever existed; all were spurious.

Saying that agents and publishers had spurned him 162 times, Mr. Wimmer laid claim to being the most-rejected published novelist in history.

There was trouble going on here and there, petty wars and political squabbles.

There was nothing but poverty—squalid, disgusting poverty—visible everywhere, and Lucy grew sick and faint at the, to her, unusual sight.

He laid up the money that he earned, instead of squandering it, as young men in his situation often do, in transient indulgences.

In that dull household, where so few events ever disturbed the stagnant quiet, this sudden journey produced an indescribable sensation.

Services, accounting for about three quarters of the economy, stagnated with zero growth.

But, in the end, nothing really gets resolved, nobody wins and the stalemate continues.

We have eliminated the opposition down our way—perfectly legal and statutory.

Steadfast in his convictions and imperturbable under pressure, Mr. Miller was the ultimate iconoclast.

Then the typically stoic Green Bay Packers coach briefly lost his composure, pausing for several seconds as he choked up with emotion.

People were much the same, she thought, in every class; there was no stratification of either rightness or righteousness.

These white streaks give the bird the striated appearance from which it obtains its name.

Indian humanities and social sciences institutes have been neglected over the years — stultified by curricular inflexibility, underfinanced and understaffed.

For several seconds he remained standing quite motionless and breathless, staring in stupefied amazement at the dark outline of the enemy.

Police officers surrounded the prison grounds while F.B.I. agents and guards tried to subdue the inmates, Sheriff Mayfield said.

The ancient Romans ruled the world by subjugating the remotest nations, pillaging and breaking them down.

If she was unhappy, her unhappiness lay too deep in subliminal abysses to struggle to the surface of her consciousness.

From the earliest times she was regarded as man's inferior and relegated to a subordinate position in society.

Ms. Greig, he said, is a meek, subservient woman whom Mr. Bulger ordered around.

A symbol has a chief meaning, and then various subsidiary meanings related to that chief meaning.

But how avoid him while she had no other means of subsistence than working in an open shop?

The ideas of the French democracy were in the beginning revolutionary, disorderly, and subversive of national consistency and good faith.

Mr. Stewart has promised to stay on until a successor is hired.

The intros to each posting are short, succinct, and witty.

Burning coal sullies the atmosphere and leaves toxic ash mountains.

Bryce Harper batting seventh in major league debut had no clue why his Class AAA manager summoned him into his office Friday afternoon.

The city is rich in antiquities, in historic buildings associated with illustrious names, in works of art and in sumptuous palaces.

In the preparation of this book, old journals, original records and documents, and sundry other trustworthy sources have been diligently consulted and freely utilized.

Law and government must keep pace with the progress of humanity, else the nation itself becomes effete, superannuated, deteriorated.

James is outrageously supercilious, arrogant, conceited and rude.

In uncivilised times, generally speaking, men were rather quick to observe outward and superficial distinctions, while very slow to discover internal and essential variations.

He looked at them as if further talk were redundant, superfluous, unnecessary, a waste of time, and an insult.

This time, the camera focused only on his face and in editing, his head would be digitally superimposed on Pence's body.

Qatar’s economy offers indicators in superlatives: the world’s highest growth rate and highest per capita income.

After vampires and shape shifters, now fairies are added to the fun supernatural mix.

Comic books, the convention’s original focus, have been superseded by movies, video games and action figures.

However, humanity is so flexible and supple that, in one way or another, it always overcomes these attempts at prevention.

But, after all, these supplementary aids, though valuable, are deficient in guiding power.

I realized the hopelessness of my cause, and found myself facing Mr. Blight again, an humble suppliant for his pardon.

Bitterly, in blood and heartbreak and long suppression, they had been weighed down under superior force: but now the time of reprisals had come.

The law at last is satisfied, satiated, surfeited.

In this surreal world, music records smell like different colors, foods tastes like specific noises, and sound comes in all varieties of textures and shapes.

Truly, there had been some secret, surreptitious flittings in this old mansion.