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Sagacious

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Having sound judgement, perceptive, wise (adj)

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Salacious

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Appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy (adj)

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Salient

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Prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant (adj)

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Salubrious

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Promoting health or well-being (adj)

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Salutary

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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement (adj)

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Sanctimony

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Self-righteousness, pretended piety (n)

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Sanction

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Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance (n)

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Sanguine

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Cheerful, confident, optimistic (adj)

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Sap

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To enervate or weaken the vitality of (v)

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Sartorial

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Of or pertaining to clothing or style (adj)

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Satiate

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To overindulge, satisfy to excess (v)

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Satire

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A literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision (n)

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Saturnine

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Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose (adj)

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Scintillating

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Animated, witty, brilliantly clever (adj)

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Scurvy

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Contemptible, despicable (adj)

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Sedulous

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Diligent, persistent, hardworking (adj)

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Seine

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A large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish (n)

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Sere

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Withered, arid (adj)

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Seminal

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Like a seed, constituting a source, originative (adj)

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Serendipitous

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Come upon or found by accident; fortuitous (adj)

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Shard

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A piece of broken pottery or glass, any small piece or part (n)

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Simper

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To smirk; to say something with a silly, coy smile (v)

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Sinecure

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Position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income (n)

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Singular

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Exceptional, unusual, odd (adj)

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Sinuous

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Winding, curving, moving lithely, devious (adj)

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Slake

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To satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of (v)

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Sodden

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Soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull (adj)

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Solder

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To weld, fuse or join, as with a soldering gun (v)

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Solicitous

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Concerned and attentive, eager (adj)

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations (adj)

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Sophistry

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Fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic (n)

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Sophomoric

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Exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgement, pretentious (adj)

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Soporific

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Causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep (adj)

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Sordid

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Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul (adj)

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Sparse

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Thin, not dense, arranged at widely spaced intervals (adj)

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Specious

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Seemingly true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive (adj)

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Spendthrift

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One who spends money wastefully (n)

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Splenetic

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Bad-tempered, irritable (adj)

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Sporadic

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Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances (adj)

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Spurious

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Lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit

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Squalid

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Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect (adj)

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Squander

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly (v)

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Stanch

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To stop the flow of a fluid (v)

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Static

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Not moving, active or in motion; at rest (adj)

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Steep

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To saturate or completely soak (v)

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud or powerful (adj)

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Stint

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To restrain, be sparing or frugal (v)

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Stoic

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast (adj)

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Stolid

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Calm, impassive (adj)

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Striated

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Striped, grooved, or banded (adj)

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Strut

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A structural support used to brace a framework (n)

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Stupefy

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To stun, baffle, or amaze (v)

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Stymie

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To block, thwart (v)

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Subpoena

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A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony (n)

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Subtle

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Not obvious, elusive, difficult to discern, crafty or sly (adj)

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Succinct

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Brief, concise (adj)

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Succor

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Assistance, relief in time of distress (n)

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Sundry

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Various, miscellaneous, separate (adj)

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Supercilious

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Disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn. (adj)

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Superfluous

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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary (adj)

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Supine

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Inactive, lying on one’s back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack (adj)

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Supplant

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To take the place of, supersede (v)

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Suppliant

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Asking humbly, beseeching (adj)

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Supplicant

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Beggar, one who prays or begs for something (n)

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Surfeit

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To feed or supply in excess (v)

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Sycophant

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Someone who tries to flatter or please or personal gain, parasite (n)

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Synthesis

A

The combination of parts to make a whole (n)

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