S & T Vocabulary

Question 1

sacrosant

Answer 1

holy, something that should not be criticized

Question 2

sagacity

Answer 2

shrewdness, soundness of perspective

Question 3

salient

Answer 3

significant, conspicuous

Question 4

sanctimonious

Answer 4

giving a hypocritical appearance of piety

Question 5

sanguine

Answer 5

optimistic, cheery

Question 6

scurrilous

Answer 6

vulgar, coarse

Question 7

serendipity

Answer 7

luck, finding good things without looking for them

Question 8

servile

Answer 8

subservient

Question 9

solicitous

Answer 9

concerned, attentive

Question 10

solipsistic

Answer 10

believing that oneself is all that exists

Question 11

somnolent

Answer 11

sleepy, drowsy

Question 12

spurious

Answer 12

false but designed to seem plausible

Question 13

staid

Answer 13

sedate, serious, self-restrained

Question 14

stolid

Answer 14

expressing little sensibility, unemotional

Question 15

stupefy

Answer 15

to astonish, make insensible

Question 16

surfeit

Answer 16

an overabundant supply or indulgence

Question 17

surmise

Answer 17

to infer with little evidence

Question 18

surreptitious

Answer 18

stealthy

Question 19

sycophant

Answer 19

one who flatters for self-gain

Question 20

tacit

Answer 20

expressed without words

Question 21

taciturn

Answer 21

not inclined to talk

Question 22

tantamount

Answer 22

equivalent in value or significance

Question 23

temerity

Answer 23

audacity, recklessness

Question 24

tenuous

Answer 24

having little substance or strength

Question 25

timorous

Answer 25

timid, fearful

Question 26

torpid

Answer 26

lethargic, dormant, lacking motion

Question 27

tractable

Answer 27

easily controlled

Question 28

transient

Answer 28

passing through briefly; passing into and out of existence

Question 29

transmute

Answer 29

to change or alter in form

Question 30

trenchant

Answer 30

effective, articulate, clear-cut

Question 31

truculent

Answer 31

ready to fight, cruel

Question 32

turgid

Answer 32

swollen, excessively embellished in style or language

Question 33

turpitude

Answer 33

depravity, moral corruption