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Salubrious

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Good for health

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Salient

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Prominent

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Salutary

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Useful

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Salve

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Something that calms

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Sanctimonious

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Making an exaggerated show of holiness/moral superiority

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Sanction

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Authorization

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Sanguine

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Confident

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Sardonic

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Disdainfully mocking

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Savant

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Wise or scholarly person

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Savvy

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Shrews/well informed

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Schematic

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Showing basic layout or form of something

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Scintillating

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Dazzlingly impressive

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Scour

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To clean by rubbing

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Scrupulous

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Having moral integrity; precise

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Scurrilous

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Abusive or defamatory

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Seance

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Meeting to speak with the dead

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Sedate

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Unhurried

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Seditious

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Involving or encouraging rebellion against government/ authority

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Sedulous

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Working persistently, painstaking

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Semaphore

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Mechanical signaling device

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Semblance

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Outside aspect/appearance; an assumed or unreal appearance

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Seminal

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Influential

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Sequester

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To seclude, put into isolation

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Serendipity

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Gift for discovery, good fortune, luck

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Sermonize

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Lecture someone about behavior

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Sierra

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Rugged mountain range

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Sinecure

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Paid job requiring little work

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Sinuous

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Bendy; indirect

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Skinflint

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Mean, naggy person

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Sleuth

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Detective

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Slicker

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Raincoat

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Slipshod

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Careless

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Slovenly

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Disheveled

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Solicit

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Plead

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Solicitous

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Concerned

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Soliloquy

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Talking when alone

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Somnolent

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Sleepy

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Sonorous

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Deep resonant sound

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Sophistry

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Seemingly clever but flawed method of argumentation

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Soporific

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Making someone sleepy

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Spate

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Large quantity

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Spurious

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Not genuine

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Spurn

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Reject someone with disdain

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Squalid

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Repulsive

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Squall

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Windstorm

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Stagnation

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Condition of no activity

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Staid

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Sober & steady

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Stark

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Bare & plain; harsh

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Statute

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Law enacted by legislature

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Stenography

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Shorthand writing or typing

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Stevedore

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Dockworker

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Stilted

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Stiffly dignified or formal; pompous

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Stipulate

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Specify something

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Stock

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Banal

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Stolid

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Solemn; little or no emotion

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Strident

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Loud

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Stringent

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Rigorous/severe

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Stymie

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Hinder the progress of

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Sublimate

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Redirect (to channel impulses regarded as unacceptable into activities more socially acceptable)

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Subsidiary

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Secondary in importance

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Subsist

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Manage to live

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Subvert

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Overthrow something

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Succulent

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Juicy and tasty

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Sundry

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Various

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Supercilious

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Contemptuously indifferent

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Supine

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Lying on back; inactive

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Supplant

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Replace

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Supposition

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Hypothesis

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Surfeit

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Excessive number

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Surmise

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Make guess about something

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Surreptitious

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Secret

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Surrogate

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Substitute

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Sycophant

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Fawning flatterer

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Symptomatic

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Characteristic; typical or indicative of something

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Syncopate

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Modify rhythm by accenting weak beat

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Synergy

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Combined effort being greater than parts

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