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Sagacious

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Showing acute mental discernment

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Sarcophagus

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A stone coffin

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Sententiously

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Given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous

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Sepulcher

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A tomb, grave, or burial place

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Serried

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Crowded or pressed together

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Servile

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Slavishly submissive

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Shoal

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Sandbank which makes the water shallow

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Skulking

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Moving about stealthily

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Somnambulist

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Sleep walker

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Spectral

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Characteristic of a phantom

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Stanchion

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An upright bar, beam, or post

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Tenebrous

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Dark; gloomy; obscure

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Trireme

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An ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship

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Venerable

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Commanding respect because of great age or noble character

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Vermouth

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An aromatized white wine

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Wantonly

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Done maliciously or unjustifiably

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Worsted

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Compact yarn from long wool fibers

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Wraith

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A visible spirit

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Yarn

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A tale

20
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Yawl

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A two-masted sailing vessel