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Vocab: S Flashcards

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Sage

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Wise

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Salacious

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Lascivious; lustful

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Salutary

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Expecting an improvement; favor to health

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Sanction

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To approve; ratify; permit

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Sardonic

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Cynical; scornfully mocking

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Sartorial

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Pertaining to tailors

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Satiate

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To satisfy

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Saturate

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To soak throughly; imbue throughout

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Saturnine

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Gloomy

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Satyr

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A creative that is half man, half beast with the horns and legs of a goat; it is a follower of Dionysos; a lecher

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Savor

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To enjoy; have a distinctive flavor or smell

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Schematic

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Relating to or in the form of an outline or diagram

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Secrete

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Produce and release substance into organism

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Sedition

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Behavior prompting rebellion

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Sedulous

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Diligent

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Seismic

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Relating to earthquakes; earthshaking

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Sensual

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Relating to the senses; gratifying the physical senses, especially sexual appetites

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Sensuous

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Relating to the senses; operating through the senses

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Sentient

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Aware; conscious; able to perceive

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Servile

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Submissive; obedient

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Sextant

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Navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

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Shard

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A piece of broken glass or pottery

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Sidereal

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Relating to the stars

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Simian
Apelike; relating to apes
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Simile
Comparison the one thing with another using "like" or "as"
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Sinecure
Well-paying job or office that requires little or no work
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Singular
Unique; extraordinary; odd
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Sinuous
Winding; intricate; complex
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Skeptic
One who doubts
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Sobriety
Seriousness
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Sodden
Throughly soaked; saturated
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Solicitous
Concerned; attentive; eager
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Soliloquy
Literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others
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Solvent
Able to meet financial obligations
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Somatic
Relating to it affecting the body; corporeal
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Soporific
Sleep producing
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Sordid
Filthy; contemptible and corrupt
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Specious
Seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so
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Spectrum
Band of colors produced when sunlight passes through a prism; a broad range of related ideas or objects
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Spendthrift
Person who spends money recklessly
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Sporadic
Irregular
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Squalor
Filthy, wretched condition
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Staccato
Marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds
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Stanch
To stop or check the flow of
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Stentorian
Extremely loud
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Stint
To be sparing
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Stigma
Mark of disgrace or inferiority
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Stipulate
To specify as an essential condition
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Stolid
Having or showing little emotion
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Stratified
Arranged in layers
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Striated
Marked with then, narrow grooves or channels
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Stricture
Something that restrains; negative criticism
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Strident
Loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy
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Strut
To swagger; display to impress others
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Stultify
To impair or reduce to uselessness
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Stupefy
To dull the senses of; stun; astonish
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Stygian
Dark; gloomy; hellish
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Subpoena
Notice ordering someone to appear in court
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Subside
To settle down; grow quiet
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Substantiate
To support with proof or evidence
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Substantive
Essential; pertaining to the substance
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Subsume
To include; incorporate
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Subversive
Intended to undermine or overthrow. Especially an established government
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Succor
Relief; help in time of distress of want
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Suffrage
The right to vote
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Sundry
Various
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Supersede
To replace, especially to displace as inferior it antiquated
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Supine
Lying in the back; marked by lethargy
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Supplant
To replace; substitute
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Suppliant
Beseeching
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Supplicant
One who asks humbly and earnestly
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Supposition
The act of assuming to be true or real
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Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise , and a conclusion
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Sylvan
Related to the woods or forest

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