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Sage

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Wise

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Salacious

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Lustful

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Salutary

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Expecting an improvement, favourable to health

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Sardonic

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Cynical, scornfully mocking

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Sartorial

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Pertaining to tailors

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Satiate

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Satisfy

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Saturate

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To soak thoroughly

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Saturnine

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Gloomy

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Satyr

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Creature that is half man, half beast with horns and legs as goats

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Savor

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To enjoy, distinctive flavour/smell

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Schematic

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Relating to or in form of outline, diagram

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Secrete

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Produce/release substance into organism

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Sanction

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To approve, permit

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Sedition

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Behaviour prompting rebellion

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Sedulous

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Diligent

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Seismic

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Relating to earthquakes

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Sensual

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Relating to senses, especially sexual appetites

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Sensuous

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Relating to senses, operating through them

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Sentient

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Aware, conscious

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Servile

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Submissive, obedient

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Sextant

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Navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

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Shard

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A piece of broken glass or pottery

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Sidereal

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Relating to the stars

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Simian

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Ape like

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Simile

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Comparison of one thing with another using “like” or “as”

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Sinecure

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Well paying job/office that requires little to no work

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Singular

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Unique, odd

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Sinuous

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Winding, complex, intricate

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Skeptic

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One who doubts

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Sobriety

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Seriousness

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Sodden

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Thoroughly soaked/saturated

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Solicitous

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Concerned, eager

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Soliloquy

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Literary or dramatic speech by one character

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations

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Somatic

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Relating to or affecting the body

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Soporific

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Sleep producing

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Sordid

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Filthy, corrupt

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Specious

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Seeming to be logical and sound but isn’t

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Spectrum

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Band of colours from sunlight. Creates prism

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Spendthrift

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Person who spends money recklessly

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Sporadic

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Irregular

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Squalor

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Filthy, wretched condition

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Staccato

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Marked by abrupt, clear cut sounds

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Stint

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To be sparing

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Stipulate

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To specify as an essential condition

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Stolid

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Having or showing little emotion

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Stratified

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Arranged in layers

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Striated

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Marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

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Stanch

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To stop or check the flow of

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud

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Stigma

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Mark of disgrace or inferiority

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Structure

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Something that restrains, negative criticism

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Strident

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Loud, harsh, noise

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Strut

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Swagger

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Stultify

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To impair, reduce to uselessness

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Stupefy

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To dull the senses of, astonish

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Stygian

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Dark and gloomy, hellish

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Subpoena

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Notice ordering someone to appear in court

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Subside

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To settle down, grow quiet

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Substantiate

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To support with proof/evidence

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Substantive

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Essential, pertaining to the substance

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Subsume

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To include, incorporate

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Subversive

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Intended to undermine or overthrow

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Succor

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Relief, help in time of distress or want

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Sundry

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Various

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Supersede

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To replace

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Supine

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Laying on back, marked by lethargy

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Supplant

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To replace/substitute

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Suppliant

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Beseeching (ask or request)

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Supplicant

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One who asks humbly and earnestly

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Supposition

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The act of assuming to be true or real

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Syllogism

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A form of deductive reasoning that has major, minor premise and conclusion

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Sylvan

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Related to woods or forest

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