S-Word List Flashcards
Salacious
(Adj)-having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.
Salubrious
(Adj)-favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
Scintillate
(V)-emit flashes of light; sparkle.
Sciolism
(N)- a superficial show of learning
Scrivener
(N)-a clerk, scribe, or notary.
Scurrilous
(Adj)-grossly or obscenely abusive.
Semiotic
(Adj)-of or relating to signs.
Shunt
(V)-to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.
Sibilant
(Adj)-making or characterized by a hissing sound.
Simulacrum
(N)-a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
Sinuous
(Adj)-having many curves and turns.
-lithe and supple.
Sluice
(N)-an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
Sojourn
(N)-a temporary stay.
(V)-to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily.
Solipsism
(N)-: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing also : extreme egocentrism.
Somatic
(Adj)-of the body; bodily; physical.
Sonorous
(Adj)-(of a person’s voice or other sound) imposingly deep and full.
Specious
(Adj)-superficially possible, but actually wrong.
Sudorific
(Adj)-relating to or causing sweating.
(N)-a drug that induces sweating.
Supplicate
(V)-ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.
Sunder
(V)-split apart.
Sclerosis
(N)-abnormal hardening of body tissue.
(N)-excessive resistance to change.
Sine qua non
(N)- an essential condition; a thing that is absolutely necessary.
