S Flashcards by Karol Szymański | Brainscape

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Saccharine

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Excessively sweet

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Sacrilegious

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Impious

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Salient

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Prominent

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Sanctimonious

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Hypocritically devout

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Satiate

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To satisfy fully or to excess

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Saturnine

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Slow to act

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Savant

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A person of learning

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Scrupulous

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Punctiliously exact

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Seamy

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Unpleasant

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Secular

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Relating to the world

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Sedition

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Behavior that promotes rebellion

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Seminal

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Creative

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Sequester

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To set apart

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Seraphic

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Angellic

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Simian

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Apelike

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Sinecure

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A well-paying job that requires less or no work

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Sobriquet

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A nickname

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Sojourn

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Visit

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Solicitous

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Full of desire

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Sophomoric

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Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgement

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Spartan

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Frugal

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive

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Sportive

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Playful

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Squalid

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Filthy and degraded as the result if poverty

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Stalwart

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Marked by outstanding strength

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Stasis

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Stagnation

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Stint

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To be sparing

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Stipulate

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To specify as a condition of an agreement

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Stratify

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To arrange

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Strident

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Harsh, laud

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Stringent

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Imposing sever

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Stymie

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To block

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Subterranean

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Secret

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Sully

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To tarnish

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Superfluous

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Extra

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Supersede

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To cause to be set aside

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Supplant

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To replace by force

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Surmount

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To overcome

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Sybarite

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A person devote to pleasure