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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

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Apelike; relating to apes

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Simile

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Comparison the one thing with another using “like” or “as”

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Sinecure

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Well-paying job or office that requires little or no work

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Singular

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Unique; extraordinary; odd

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Sinuous

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Winding; intricate; complex

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Skeptic

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One who doubts

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Sobriety

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Seriousness

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Sodden

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Throughly soaked; saturated

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Solicitous

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Concerned; attentive; eager

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Soliloquy

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Literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations

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Somatic

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Relating to it affecting the body; corporeal

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Soporific

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Sleep producing

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Sordid

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Filthy; contemptible and corrupt

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Specious

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Seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so

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Spectrum

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Band of colors produced when sunlight passes through a prism; a broad range of related ideas or objects

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Spendthrift

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Person who spends money recklessly

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Sporadic

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Squalor

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Filthy, wretched condition

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Staccato

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Marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

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Stanch

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To stop or check the flow of

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Stentorian

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Extremely loud

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Stint

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To be sparing

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Stigma

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Mark of disgrace or inferiority

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Stipulate

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To specify as an essential condition

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Stolid

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Having or showing little emotion

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Stratified

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Arranged in layers

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Striated

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Marked with then, narrow grooves or channels

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Stricture

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Something that restrains; negative criticism

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Strident

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Loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy

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Strut

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To swagger; display to impress others

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Stultify

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To impair or reduce to uselessness

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Stupefy

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To dull the senses of; stun; astonish

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Stygian

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Dark; gloomy; hellish

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Subpoena

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Notice ordering someone to appear in court

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Subside

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To settle down; grow quiet

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Substantiate

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To support with proof or evidence

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Substantive

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Essential; pertaining to the substance

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Subsume

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To include; incorporate

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Subversive

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Intended to undermine or overthrow. Especially an established government

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Succor

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Relief; help in time of distress of want

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Suffrage

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The right to vote

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Sundry

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Supersede

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To replace, especially to displace as inferior it antiquated

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Supine

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Lying in the back; marked by lethargy

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Supplant

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To replace; substitute

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Suppliant

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Beseeching

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Supplicant

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One who asks humbly and earnestly

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Supposition

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The act of assuming to be true or real

73
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Syllogism

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A form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise , and a conclusion

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Sylvan

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Related to the woods or forest

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