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- sacrifice v
- To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar
- sacrificial adj
- Offering or offered as an atonement for sin
- sacrilege n
- The act of violating or profaning anything sacred
- sacrilegious adj
- Impious
- safeguard v
- To protect.
- sagacious adj
- Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception
- salacious adj
- Having strong sexual desires
- salience n
- The condition of standing out distinctly
- salient adj
- Standing out prominently
- saline adj
- Constituting or consisting of salt
- salutary adj
- Beneficial
- salutation n
- Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act
- salutatory n
- The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges
- salvage n
- Any act of saving property
- salvo n
- A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer
- sanctimonious adj
- Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety
- sanction v
- To approve authoritatively
- sanctity n
- Holiness
- sanguinary adj
- Bloody
- sanguine adj
- Having the color of blood
- sanguineous adj
- Consisting of blood
- sapid adj
- Affecting the sense of taste
- sapience n
- Deep wisdom or knowledge
- sapient adj
- Possessing wisdom
- sapiential adj
- Possessing wisdom
- saponaceous adj
- Having the nature or quality of soap
- sarcasm n
- Cutting and reproachful language
- sarcophagus n
- A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb
- sardonic adj
- Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic
- satiate v
- To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of
- satire n
- The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices
- satiric adj
- Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule
- satirize v
- To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit
- satyr n
- A very lascivious person
- savage n
- A wild and uncivilized human being
- savor v
- To perceive by taste or smell
- scabbard n
- The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon
- scarcity n
- Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands
- scholarly adj
- Characteristic of an erudite person
- scholastic adj
- Pertaining to education or schools
- scintilla n
- The faintest ray
- scintillate v
- To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light
- scope n
- A range of action or view
- scoundrel n
- A man without principle
- scribble n
- Hasty, careless writing
- scribe n
- One who writes or is skilled in writing
- script n
- Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form
- Scriptural adj
- Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures
- scruple n
- Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty
- scrupulous adj
- Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong
- scurrilous adj
- Grossly indecent or vulgar
- scuttle v
- To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom
- scythe n
- A long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc
- seance n
- A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits
- sear v
- To burn on the surface
- sebaceous adj
- Pertaining to or appearing like fat
- secant adj
- Cutting, especially into two parts
- secede v
- To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body
- secession n
- Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies
- seclude v
- To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others
- seclusion n
- Solitude
- secondary adj
- Less important or effective than that which is primary
- secondly adv
- In the second place in order or succession
- second-rate adj
- Second in quality, size, rank, importance, etc
- secrecy n
- Concealment
- secretary n
- One who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others
- secretive adj
- Having a tendency to conceal
- sedate adj
- Even-tempered
- sedentary adj
- Involving or requiring much sitting
- sediment n
- Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid
- sedition n
- Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state
- seditious adj
- Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state
- seduce v
- To entice to surrender chastity
- sedulous adj
- Persevering in effort or endeavor
- seer n
- A prophet
- seethe v
- To be violently excited or agitated
- seignior n
- A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir
- seismograph n
- An instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes
- seize v
- To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly
- selective adj
- Having the power of choice
- self-respect n
- Rational self-esteem
- semblance n
- Outward appearance
- semicivilized adj
- Half-civilized
- semiconscious adj
- Partially conscious
- semiannual adj
- Recurring at intervals of six months
- semicircle n
- A half-circle
- seminar n
- Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher
- seminary n
- A special school, as of theology or pedagogics
- senile adj
- Peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age
- sensation n
- A condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling
- sense n
- The signification conveyed by some word, phrase, or action
- sensibility n
- Power to perceive or feel
- sensitive adj
- Easily affected by outside operations or influences
- sensorium n
- The sensory apparatus
- sensual adj
- Pertaining to the body or the physical senses
- sensuous adj
- Having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury
- sentence n
- A related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought
- sentience n
- Capacity for sensation or sense-perception
- sentient adj
- Possessing the power of sense or sense-perception
- sentinel n
- Any guard or watch stationed for protection
- separable adj
- Capable of being disjoined or divided
- separate v
- To take apart
- separatist n
- A seceder
- septennial adj
- Recurring every seven years
- sepulcher n
- A burial-place
- sequacious adj
- Ready to be led
- sequel n
- That which follows in consequence of what has previously happened
- sequence n
- The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time
- sequent adj
- Following in the order of time
- sequester v
- To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life
- sequestrate v
- To confiscate
- sergeant n
- A non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal
- sergeant-at-arms n
- An executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer
- sergeant-major n
- The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment
- service n
- Any work done for the benefit of another
- serviceable adj
- Durable
- servitude n
- Slavery
- severance n
- Separation
- severely adv
- Extremely
- sextet n
- A band of six singers or players
- sextuple adj
- Multiplied by six
- sheer adj
- Absolute
- shiftless adj
- Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability
- shrewd adj
- Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances
- shriek n
- A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror
- shrinkage n
- A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension
- shrivel v
- To draw or be drawn into wrinkles
- shuffle n
- A mixing or changing the order of things
- sibilance n
- A hissing sound
- sibilant adj
- Made with a hissing sound
- sibilate v
- To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s
- sidelong adj
- Inclining or tending to one side
- sidereal adj
- Pertaining to stars or constellations
- siege n
- A beleaguerment
- significance n
- Importance
- significant adj
- Important, especially as pointing something out
- signification n
- The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs
- similar adj
- Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else
- simile n
- A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself
- similitude n
- Similarity
- simplify v
- To make less complex or difficult
- simulate v
- Imitate
- simultaneous adj
- Occurring, done, or existing at the same time
- sinecure n
- Any position having emoluments with few or no duties
- singe v
- To burn slightly or superficially
- sinister adj
- Evil
- sinuosity n
- The quality of curving in and out
- sinuous adj
- Curving in and out
- sinus n
- An opening or cavity
- siren n
- A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla
- sirocco n
- hot winds from Africa
- sisterhood n
- A body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow
- skeptic n
- One who doubts any statements
- skepticism n
- The entertainment of doubt concerning something
- skiff n
- Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars
- skirmish n
- Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies
- sleight n
- A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation
- slight adj
- Of a small importance or significance
- slothful adj
- Lazy
- sluggard n
- A person habitually lazy or idle
- sociable adj
- Inclined to seek company
- socialism n
- A theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society
- socialist adj
- One who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital
- sociology n
- The philosophical study of society
- Sol n
- The sun
- solace n
- Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity
- solar adj
- Pertaining to the sun
- solder n
- A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins
- soldier n
- A person engaged in military service
- solecism n
- Any violation of established rules or customs
- solicitor n
- One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney
- solicitude n
- Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear
- soliloquy n
- A monologue
- solstice n
- The time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination
- soluble adj
- Capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid
- solvent adj
- Having sufficient funds to pay all debts
- somber adj
- Gloomy
- somniferous adj
- Tending to produce sleep
- somnolence n
- Oppressive drowsiness
- somnolent adj
- Sleepy
- sonata n
- An instrumental composition
- sonnet n
- A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases
- sonorous adj
- Resonant
- soothsayer n
- One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight
- sophism n
- A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
- sophistical adj
- Fallacious
- sophisticate v
- To deprive of simplicity of mind or manner
- sophistry n
- Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive
- soprano n
- A woman's or boy's voice of high range
- sorcery n
- Witchcraft
- sordid adj
- Of degraded character or nature
- souvenir n
- A token of remembrance
- sparse adj
- Thinly diffused
- Spartan adj
- Exceptionally brave; rigorously severe
- spasmodic adj
- Convulsive
- specialize v
- To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course
- specialty n
- An employment limited to one particular line of work
- specie n
- A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal
- species n
- A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus
- specimen n
- One of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class
- specious adj
- Plausible
- spectator n
- One who beholds or looks on
- specter n
- Apparition
- spectrum n
- An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy
- speculate v
- To pursue inquiries and form conjectures
- speculator n
- One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit
- sphericity n
- The state or condition of being a sphere
- spheroid n
- A body having nearly the form of a sphere
- spherometer n
- An instrument for measuring curvature or radii of spherical surfaces
- spinous adj
- Having spines
- spinster n
- A woman who has never been married
- spontaneous adj
- Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause
- sprightly adj
- Vivacious
- spurious adj
- Not genuine
- squabble v
- To quarrel
- squalid adj
- Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance
- squatter n
- One who settles on land without permission or right
- stagnant adj
- Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool
- stagnate v
- To become dull or inert
- stagnation n
- The condition of not flowing or not changing
- stagy adj
- Having a theatrical manner
- staid adj
- Of a steady and sober character
- stallion n
- An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding
- stanchion n
- A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall
- stanza n
- A group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem
- statecraft n
- The art of conducting state affairs
- static adj
- Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium
- statics n
- The branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order
- stationary adj
- Not moving
- statistician n
- One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts
- statuesque adj
- Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue
- statuette n
- A figurine
- stature n
- The natural height of an animal body
- statute n
- Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law
- stealth n
- A concealed manner of acting
- stellar adj
- Pertaining to the stars
- steppe n
- One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia
- sterling adj
- Genuine
- stifle v
- To smother
- stigma n
- A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing
- stiletto n
- A small dagger
- stimulant n
- Anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action
- stimulate v
- To rouse to activity or to quickened action
- stimulus n
- Incentive
- stingy adj
- Cheap, unwilling to spend money
- stipend n
- A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance
- Stoicism n
- The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure
- stolid adj
- Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving
- strait n
- A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water
- stratagem n
- Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage