50 Word Group S, T, U, V Flashcards

Question

TOX

Answer 1

poison antitoxin: an antibody that counteracts a given poison toxic: poisonous

Answer 2

across, beyond intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise transcendent: going beyond ordinary limits transgress: to violate a law, command, or moral code

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holy sacrament: something regarded as possessing sacred character sacrilege: the violation of anything sacred sanctify: to make holy

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taste, thinking, discerning sagacious: perceptive; discerning; insightful sage: wise sapient: wise savant: a learned person

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to leap, to jump assault: a sudden or violent attack exult: to show or feel triumphant joy

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health salubrious: healthful salutary: healthful

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to save salvage: to save; something saved or recovered salvation: being saved savior: one who saves

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healthy sane: mentally healthy sanitarium: a place of healing

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blood consanguinity: being related by blood sanguinary: bloody; bloodthirsty

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enough dissatisfied: feeling that one does not have enough sate: to fill saturate: to fill completely; to entirely satisfy

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to know conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong, impelling one toward right action omniscient: knowing everything prescient: having knowledge of things before they happen

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apart, away secede: to withdraw formally from an association sedition: incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government

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to follow non sequitur: an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises obsequious: fawning

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to sit, to settle assiduous: diligent, persistent, hardworking (literally, “sitting down” to business) insidious: intended to entrap or beguile; lying in wait to entrap

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half semicircle: half a circle semiconscious: only partly conscious; half awake

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old senate: the highest legislative body (from “council of elders”) senescent: getting old senile: relating to old age; experiencing memory loss or other age-related mental impairments

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to feel, to be aware dissent: to differ in opinion, esp. from the majority insensate: without feeling or sensitivity presentiment: a feeling that something is about to happen

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alone desolate: deserted; laid waste; left alone isolate: to set apart from others soliloquize: talk to oneself; talk onstage as if to oneself solipsism: the belief that the only thing that really exists, or can really be known, is oneself

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to loosen, to free absolution: forgiveness for wrongdoing dissolute: indifferent to moral restraints

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sun parasol: an umbrella that protects from the sun solarium: a sunroom; a room with windows for taking in the sun

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sleep somnambulist: a sleepwalker somniferous: sleep-inducing somniloquist: one who talks while asleep somnolent: sleep-inducing; sleepy; drowsy

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wisdom philosopher: one who studies logic, beauty, truth, etc.; one who seeks wisdom sophisticated: complex; worldly; experienced

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to rise insurgent: rising up in revolution; rushing in insurrection: rising up in armed rebellion surge: to rise up forcefully, as ocean waves

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to look, to see circumspect: watchful and discreet, cautious conspicuous: easily seen or noticed; readily observable specious: deceptively attractive

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sweet, pleasing, to urge assuage: to make less severe, ease, relieve suave: smoothly agreeable or polite; sweet

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below, under subliminal: existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness subsidiary: serving to assist or supplement suppose: to put down as a hypothesis; to use as the underlying basis of an argument; to assume

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highest, total consummate: highly qualified; complete; perfect summit: highest point

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over, above supercilious: arrogant, haughty, condescending superfluous: extra, more than necessary

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together symbiosis: living together in a mutually beneficial relationship symposium: a meeting at which ideas are discussed