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Salubrious

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Good for you
Not just food and drink

Salubrious mountain air

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Sacrosanct

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SAH kro sankt
Extremely important, never can be changed or interrupted
Sacrosanct family reunion

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Scathing

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Of criticism

Harsh

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Scion

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SIGH uhn

Child or heir in rich or prominent family

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Seditious

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Arousing action in an act that rebels against government authority.

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Sedulous

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Assiduous

Characteristic of one who works hard and doesn’t give up.

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Semantics

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The study of meaning of language

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Seminal

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New and revolutionary that inspires everything to come after

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Sentient

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SEHN chent

Able to feel things. Possess emotions.

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Sequester

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Keep apart from others.

Sequester myself in my room

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Serendipity

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Unexpected good luck

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Sibylline

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Describing a prophecy or prophet

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Somatic

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Relating to the body

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Specious

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SPEE

Use specious to describe an argument that seems to be good, correct, or logical, but is not so

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Spurn

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To reject with disdain

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Squalid

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Unkempt and neglected.
A squalid frat house

Morally wrong behavior

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Squander

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To waste money

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Statutory

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Related to laws, statutes

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Striate

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To mark with striae, like furrows in a field.

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Stultify

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Drain of energy. Transitive

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Subliminal

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Below conscious perception. Subliminal message is one used to control another but they’re not aware of it.

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Subsidiary

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Secondary, auxiliary, like a company owned by another.

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Subversive

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Trying to undermine authority

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Sully

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V
To try to ruin one’s reputation
You sully a reputation, not a person

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Sumptuous

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Expensive and of superior quality

And pleasing to the senses.

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Sundry

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Various, miscellaneous (of items)

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Superannuated

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Obsolete, too old for use

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Supererogatory

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Superfluous, more than necessary.

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Supersede

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Replace with something better

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Supple

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Flexible

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Suppliant

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A Humble, like prayer
N prayer
SUH plee ehnt

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Surfeit

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N overabundance (surfeit of poptarts)
V to indulge (apetite)
SUR fit

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Sybaritic

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Luxurious or extravagant

sih bar IH tic

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