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Saccharine (adj.)
Sickeningly sweet
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Sagacity (n.)
shrewdness, soundness of perspective
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Salient (adj.)
significant
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Salutation (n.)
a greeting
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Salve (n.)
a soothing balm
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Sanctimonious (adj.)
giving a hypocritical appearance of piety
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Sanguine (adj.)
optimistic
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Satiate (v.)
to satisfy excessively
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Scathing (adj.)
sharp, critical, hurtful
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Scintillating (adj.)
sparkling
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Scrupulous (adj.)
painstaking, careful in conduct or manner
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Scurrilous (adj.)
vulgar, coarse
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Sedentary (adj.)
sitting, settled
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Semaphore (n.)
a visual signal
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Seminal (adj.)
original, important
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Sensual (adj.)
involving sensory gratification
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Sensuous (adj.)
involving sensory gratification
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Serendipity (n.)
luck, finding good thing without looking for them
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Serene (adj.)
calm, untroubled
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Sinuous (adj.)
lithe, serpentine
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Sobriety (n.)
sedate, calm
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Solicitous (adj.)
concerned, attentive
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Solipsistic (adj.)
believing that oneself is all that exists
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Soluble (adj.)
able to dissolve
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Solvent
- a) (n.) substances that dissolve other substances
- b) (adj.) being able to pay debts
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Sophomoric (adj.)
immature, uninformed
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sovereign (adj.)
having absolute authority in a certain realm
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Speculative (adj.)
not based in fact
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Spurious (adj.)
false but designed to seem plausible
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Stagnate (v.)
to become or remain inactive
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Staid (adj.)
Sedate, serious
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Stingy (adj.)
not generous, not inclined to spend or give
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Stoic (adj.)
unaffected by passion or feeling
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Stolid (adj.)
expressing little sensibility
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Strenuous (adj.)
Requiring tremendous energy or stamina
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Sublime (adj.)
lofty, grand
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Submissive (adj.)
easily yielding to authority
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Succinct (adj.)
marked by compact precision
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Superfluous (adj.)
exceeding what is necessary
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Surfeit (n.)
an overabundant supply
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Surmise (v.)
to infer with little evidence
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surreptitious (adj.)
stealthy
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Surrogate (n.)
one acting in the place of another
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Swarthy (adj.)
of dark color or complexion
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Sycophant (n.)
one who flatters for self-gain
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