Serendipity- Synthesis Flashcards
Servile
Submissive and subservient
Like a servant
Serendipity
Accidental good fortune
Discovering food things without looking for them.
Singular
Unique
Superior
Exceptional
Strange
Sinister
Evil
Wicked
Foreshadowing evil, trouble, or wickedness
Slander
To speak badly about someone publicly
To defame
To spread malicious rumors
Sloth
Laziness
Sluggishness
Sobriety
The state if being sober
Seriousness
Solicitous
Eager and attentive, often to the point of hovering
Anxiously caring or attentive
Solvent
Not broke or bankrupt
Able to pay one’s bills
Soporific
Sleep inducing
Boring
Sleepy
Sordid
Vile
Filthy
Squalid
Spawn
To bring forth
To produce a large number
Specious
Deceptively plausible or attractive
Sporadic
Stopping and starting
Scattered
Occurring in bursts every once in a while
Spurious
False
Fake
Squalor
Filth
Wretched, degraded, or repulsive living conditions
Squander
To waste
Stagnation
Motionless
Inactivity
Static
Stationary
Not changing or moving
Staunch
Firmly committed
Firmly in favor of
Steadfast
Steadfast
Loyal
Faithful
Stigmatize
To brand with disgrace
To set a mark if disgrace upon
Stipulate
To require something as part of an agreement
Stoic
Indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain, to joy or grief, to fortune or misfortune
Stratum
A layer
Level
Stricture
A restriction
A limitation
A negative criticism
Strife
Bitter conflict
Discord
A struggle or clash
Stringent
Strict
Restrictive
Stymie
To thwart
To get in the way of
To hinder
Subjugate
To subdue and dominate
To enslave
Sublime
Extremely exalted
Awesome
Lofty
Majestic
Subordinate
Lower in importance, position, or rank
Secondary
Substantive
Having substance Real Essential Solid Substantial
Subtle
Not obvious
Able to make fine distinctions
Ingenious
Crafty
Subversive
Corrupting
Overthrowing
Undermining
Insurgent
Succinct
Brief and to the point
Concise
Succumb
To yield or submit
To die
Supercilious
Haughty
Patronizing
Superficial
On the surface only
Shallow
Not thorough
Superfluous
Extra
Unnecessary
Redundant
Surfeit
Excess
An excessive amount
Excess or over indulgence in eating or drinking
Surreptitious
Sneaky
Secret
Surrogate
Substitute
Sycophant
One who sucks up to others
Synthesis
The combining of parts to form a whole