4 Flashcards
Sagacious
Showing acute mental discernment
Sarcophagus
A stone coffin
Sententiously
Given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous
Sepulcher
A tomb, grave, or burial place
Serried
Crowded or pressed together
Servile
Slavishly submissive
Shoal
Sandbank which makes the water shallow
Skulking
Moving about stealthily
Somnambulist
Sleep walker
Spectral
Characteristic of a phantom
Stanchion
An upright bar, beam, or post
Tenebrous
Dark; gloomy; obscure
Trireme
An ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship
Venerable
Commanding respect because of great age or noble character
Vermouth
An aromatized white wine
Wantonly
Done maliciously or unjustifiably
Worsted
Compact yarn from long wool fibers
Wraith
A visible spirit
Yarn
A tale
Yawl
A two-masted sailing vessel