"S-" Vocabulary

Question 1

Sagacious

Answer 1

Having sound judgement, perceptive, wise (adj)

Question 2

Salacious

Answer 2

Appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy (adj)

Question 3

Salient

Answer 3

Prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant (adj)

Question 4

Salubrious

Answer 4

Promoting health or well-being (adj)

Question 5

Salutary

Answer 5

Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement (adj)

Question 6

Sanctimony

Answer 6

Self-righteousness, pretended piety (n)

Question 7

Sanction

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Sanguine

Answer 8

Cheerful, confident, optimistic (adj)

Question 9

Sap

Answer 9

To enervate or weaken the vitality of (v)

Question 10

Sartorial

Answer 10

Of or pertaining to clothing or style (adj)

Question 11

Satiate

Answer 11

To overindulge, satisfy to excess (v)

Question 12

Satire

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Saturnine

Answer 13

Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose (adj)

Question 14

Scintillating

Answer 14

Animated, witty, brilliantly clever (adj)

Question 15

Scurvy

Answer 15

Contemptible, despicable (adj)

Question 16

Sedulous

Answer 16

Diligent, persistent, hardworking (adj)

Question 17

Seine

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Sere

Answer 18

Withered, arid (adj)

Question 19

Seminal

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Serendipitous

Answer 20

Come upon or found by accident; fortuitous (adj)

Question 21

Shard

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Simper

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Sinecure

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Singular

Answer 24

Exceptional, unusual, odd (adj)

Question 25

Sinuous

Answer 25

Winding, curving, moving lithely, devious (adj)

Question 26

Slake

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Sodden

Answer 27

Soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull (adj)

Question 28

Solder

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Solicitous

Answer 29

Concerned and attentive, eager (adj)

Question 30

Solvent

Answer 30

Able to meet financial obligations (adj)

Question 31

Sophistry

Answer 31

Fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic (n)

Question 32

Sophomoric

Answer 32

Exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgement, pretentious (adj)

Question 33

Soporific

Answer 33

Causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep (adj)

Question 34

Sordid

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Sparse

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Specious

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Spendthrift

Answer 37

One who spends money wastefully (n)

Question 38

Splenetic

Answer 38

Bad-tempered, irritable (adj)

Question 39

Sporadic

Answer 39

Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances (adj)

Question 40

Spurious

Answer 40

Lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit

Question 41

Squalid

Answer 41

Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect (adj)

Question 42

Squander

Answer 42

To waste by spending or using irresponsibly (v)

Question 43

Stanch

Answer 43

To stop the flow of a fluid (v)

Question 44

Static

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Steep

Answer 45

To saturate or completely soak (v)

Question 46

Stentorian

Answer 46

Extremely loud or powerful (adj)

Question 47

Stint

Answer 47

To restrain, be sparing or frugal (v)

Question 48

Stoic

Answer 48

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

Question 49

Stolid

Answer 49

Calm, impassive (adj)

Question 50

Striated

Answer 50

Striped, grooved, or banded (adj)

Question 51

Strut

Answer 51

A structural support used to brace a framework (n)

Question 52

Stupefy

Answer 52

To stun, baffle, or amaze (v)

Question 53

Stymie

Answer 53

To block, thwart (v)

Question 54

Subpoena

Answer 54

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

Question 55

Subtle

Answer 55

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

Question 56

Succinct

Answer 56

Brief, concise (adj)

Question 57

Succor

Answer 57

Assistance, relief in time of distress (n)

Question 58

Sundry

Answer 58

Various, miscellaneous, separate (adj)

Question 59

Supercilious

Answer 59

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

Question 60

Superfluous

Answer 60

Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary (adj)

Question 61

Supine

Answer 61

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

Question 62

Supplant

Answer 62

To take the place of, supersede (v)

Question 63

Suppliant

Answer 63

Asking humbly, beseeching (adj)

Question 64

Supplicant

Answer 64

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

Question 65

Surfeit

Answer 65

To feed or supply in excess (v)

Question 66

Sycophant

Answer 66

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

Question 67

Synthesis

Answer 67

The combination of parts to make a whole (n)