S-Word List

Question 1

Salacious

Answer 1

(Adj)-having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.

Question 2

Salubrious

Answer 2

(Adj)-favorable to or promoting health; healthful.

Question 3

Scintillate

Answer 3

(V)-emit flashes of light; sparkle.

Question 4

Sciolism

Answer 4

(N)- a superficial show of learning

Question 5

Scrivener

Answer 5

(N)-a clerk, scribe, or notary.

Question 6

Scurrilous

Answer 6

(Adj)-grossly or obscenely abusive.

Question 7

Semiotic

Answer 7

(Adj)-of or relating to signs.

Question 8

Shunt

Answer 8

(V)-to shove or turn (someone or something) aside or out of the way.

Question 9

Sibilant

Answer 9

(Adj)-making or characterized by a hissing sound.

Question 10

Simulacrum

Answer 10

(N)-a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.

Question 11

Sinuous

Answer 11

(Adj)-having many curves and turns.

-lithe and supple.

Question 12

Sluice

Answer 12

(N)-an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.

Question 13

Sojourn

Answer 13

(N)-a temporary stay.

(V)-to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily.

Question 14

Solipsism

Answer 14

(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.

Question 15

Somatic

Answer 15

(Adj)-of the body; bodily; physical.

Question 16

Sonorous

Answer 16

(Adj)-(of a person’s voice or other sound) imposingly deep and full.

Question 17

Specious

Answer 17

(Adj)-superficially possible, but actually wrong.

Question 18

Sudorific

Answer 18

(Adj)-relating to or causing sweating.

(N)-a drug that induces sweating.

Question 19

Supplicate

Answer 19

(V)-ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.

Question 20

Sunder

Answer 20

(V)-split apart.

Question 21

Sclerosis

Answer 21

(N)-abnormal hardening of body tissue.

(N)-excessive resistance to change.

Question 22

Sine qua non

Answer 22

(N)- an essential condition; a thing that is absolutely necessary.