Word List 7 S-Z Flashcards by Madeline Fagen | Brainscape

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Sanction

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Official approval

2. Official punishment

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Salubrious

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Good for one’s health

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Scoff

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To ridicule, to mock

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Sedulous

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Hard-working

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Sentient

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Aware, sensitive, feeling

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Skulk

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To sneak around

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Smolder

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To burn slowly

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Soporific

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Causing sleep, boring

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Spurious

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Illegitimate, deceitful

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Squelch

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To squash, to crush

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Stupefy

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To stun or shock

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Subliminal

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Existing beyond consciousness or awareness, existing in the subconscious

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Sully

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To dirty

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Suppleness

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Flexibility, bendability

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Surreptitious

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Sneaky

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Swindler

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A cheat

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Tacit

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Expressed without words

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Technocrat

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One who believes in government by technical experts

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Tensile

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Bendable

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Toady

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Flatterer, asskisser

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Trifling

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Of slight importance

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Tumultuous

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Greatly disturbing, stormy

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Unabashedly

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Unashamedly, without excuse or explanation

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Unremitting

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Constant

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Upshot

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Outcome, final result

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Vapid

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Without force, uninteresting

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Veneer

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Thin covering of nice-looking material

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Verdant

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Green with vegetation

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Vestigial

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Having a trace of something lost

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Virulent

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Harmful

2. Bitter

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Vociferous

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Loud and demanding

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Voracious

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Having a huge appetite, greedy

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Waive

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To give up (a right etc.)

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Waylay

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To lie in wait for, to attack by surprise

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Whelp

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Young animal

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Wretchedness

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Misery

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Yoke

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To connect, to join