NSF nationals vocabulary 25

Question 0

Savanna

Answer 0

A flat grassland in tropical regions

Question 1

Sartorial

Answer 1

Related to tailoring or clothes

Question 2

Saturnine

Answer 2

Ill in humor, gloomy

Question 3

Savant

Answer 3

A learned scholar, person admitted to a program

Question 4

Scarp

Answer 4

A line of cliffs formed by a fault in the earth’s surface

Question 5

Scathing

Answer 5

Harshly criticizing, harmful

Question 6

Schema

Answer 6

A diagram, plan or scheme

Question 7

Scorned

Answer 7

To show contempt or derision

Question 8

Scrabble

Answer 8

To scratch or grapple with the claw or hands, a game

Question 9

Scrimshaw

Answer 9

A carving or engraving on ivory or whale bone

Question 10

Scrumptious

Answer 10

Extremely tasty or pleasing to the taste

Question 11

Scrunch

Answer 11

To crush, or crumple, make a crushing noise

Question 12

Scrupulous

Answer 12

Having scruples, or principles, small amount

Question 13

Scurry

Answer 13

To move in a very quick manner

Question 14

Seascape

Answer 14

A view or painting of the sea

Question 15

Segue

Answer 15

A flowing transition from one composition to another

Question 16

Seismism

Answer 16

The natural activity associated with earthquakes

Question 17

Self-effacing

Answer 17

Reluctant to draw attention to oneself

Question 18

Semanticist

Answer 18

The study of meaning

Question 19

Semblance

Answer 19

The outward aspect or assumed appearance

Question 20

Seminal

Answer 20

Possibilities of future development

Question 21

Sequester

Answer 21

To seclude or set apart

Question 22

Seriatim

Answer 22

In a series, one after another

Question 23

Sever

Answer 23

To cut apart

Question 24

Shalom

Answer 24

A greeting of peace

Question 25

Shambles

Answer 25

A slaughterhouse, state of disorder

Question 26

Shanghai

Answer 26

The largest city of China

Question 27

Shelter

Answer 27

A place that provides protection, protective covering

Question 28

Shrapnel

Answer 28

A shell containing lead pellets that explode

Question 29

Sidle

Answer 29

To move sideways

Question 30

Sierra

Answer 30

A chain of hills, a Spanish mackerel

Question 31

Silhouette

Answer 31

A outline or a figure of something

Question 32

Simian

Answer 32

Relating to apes

Question 33

Sine qua non

Answer 33

Indispensable condition

Question 34

Skinflint

Answer 34

A selfish person who will not give or spend money

Question 35

Sleeper

Answer 35

A person or thing that sleeps

Question 36

Sloth

Answer 36

A slow moving, arboreal animal of South and Central America

Question 37

Smarmy

Answer 37

Excessively suave or flattery in speech

Question 38

Smolder

Answer 38

A fire burning with thick smoke

Question 39

Snigger snicker

Answer 39

To laugh quietly

Question 40

Snippet

Answer 40

A small piece snipped off

Question 41

Snivel

Answer 41

To cry with sniffles

Question 42

Solace

Answer 42

To console or comfort in misery

Question 43

Soliloquize

Answer 43

To talk to oneself

Question 44

Sophistry

Answer 44

A fallacious method of reasoning, invalid argument

Question 45

Sound

Answer 45

A noise, audible thing

Question 46

Soupcon

Answer 46

A small, but appreciable addition

Question 47

Species

Answer 47

A specific kind of something, like animals

Question 48

Specious

Answer 48

Plausible but false