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- stratum n
- A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material
- streamlet n
- Rivulet
- stringency n
- Strictness
- stringent adj
- Rigid
- stripling n
- A mere youth
- studious adj
- Having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge
- stultify v
- To give an appearance of foolishness to
- stupendous adj
- Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree
- stupor n
- Profound lethargy
- suasion n
- The act of persuading
- suave adj
- Smooth and pleasant in manner
- subacid adj
- Somewhat sharp or biting
- subaquatic adj
- Being, formed, or operating under water
- subconscious adj
- Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception
- subjacent adj
- Situated directly underneath
- subjection n
- The act of bringing into a state of submission
- subjugate v
- To conquer
- subliminal adj
- Being beneath the threshold of consciousness
- sublingual adj
- Situated beneath the tongue
- submarine adj
- Existing, done, or operating beneath the surface of the sea
- submerge v
- To place or plunge under water
- submergence n
- The act of submerging
- submersible adj
- Capable of being put underwater
- submersion n
- The act of submerging
- submission n
- A yielding to the power or authority of another
- submittal n
- The act of submitting
- subordinate adj
- Belonging to an inferior order in a classification
- subsequent adj
- Following in time
- subservience n
- The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests
- subservient adj
- Servilely following another's behests
- subside v
- To relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity
- subsist v
- To be maintained or sustained
- subsistence n
- Sustenance
- substantive adj
- Solid
- subtend v
- To extend opposite to
- subterfuge n
- Evasion
- subterranean adj
- Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth
- subtle adj
- Discriminating
- subtrahend n
- That which is to be subtracted
- subversion n
- An overthrow, as from the foundation
- subvert v
- To bring to ruin
- succeed v
- To accomplish what is attempted or intended
- success n
- A favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted
- successful adj
- Having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity
- successor n
- One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing
- succinct adj
- Concise
- succulent adj
- Juicy
- succumb v
- To cease to resist
- sufferance n
- Toleration
- sufficiency n
- An ample or adequate supply
- suffrage n
- The right or privilege of voting
- suffuse v
- To cover or fill the surface of
- suggestible adj
- That can be suggested
- suggestive adj
- Stimulating to thought or reflection
- summary n
- An abstract
- sumptuous adj
- Rich and costly
- superabundance n
- An excessive amount
- superadd v
- To add in addition to what has been added
- superannuate v
- To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service
- superb adj
- Sumptuously elegant
- supercilious adj
- Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt
- superficial adj
- Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious
- superfluity n
- That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed
- superfluous adj
- Being more than is needed
- superheat v
- To heat to excess
- superintend v
- To have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement
- superintendence n
- Direction and management
- superintendent n
- One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement
- superlative n
- That which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence
- supernatural adj
- Caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power
- supernumerary adj
- Superfluous
- supersede v
- To displace
- supine adj
- Lying on the back
- supplant v
- To take the place of
- supple adj
- Easily bent
- supplementary adj
- Being an addition to
- supplicant n
- One who asks humbly and earnestly
- supplicate v
- To beg
- supposition n
- Conjecture
- suppress v
- To prevent from being disclosed or punished
- suppressible adj
- Capable of being suppressed
- suppression n
- A forcible putting or keeping down
- supramundane adj
- Supernatural
- surcharge n
- An additional amount charged
- surety n
- Security for payment or performance
- surfeit v
- To feed to fullness or to satiety
- surmise v
- To conjecture
- surmount v
- To overcome by force of will
- surreptitious adj
- Clandestine
- surrogate n
- One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another
- surround v
- To encircle
- surveyor n
- A land-measurer
- susceptibility n
- A specific capability of feeling or emotion
- susceptible adj
- Easily under a specified power or influence
- suspense n
- Uncertainty
- suspension n
- A hanging from a support
- suspicious adj
- Inclined to doubt or mistrust
- sustenance n
- Food
- swarthy adj
- Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion
- Sybarite n
- A luxurious person
- sycophant n
- A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence
- syllabic adj
- Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse
- syllabication n
- Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse
- syllable n
- That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse
- syllabus n
- Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise
- sylph n
- A slender, graceful young woman or girl
- symmetrical adj
- Well-balanced
- symmetry n
- Relative proportion and harmony
- sympathetic adj
- Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others
- sympathize v
- To share the sentiments or mental states of another
- symphonic adj
- Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds
- symphonious adj
- Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds
- symphony n
- A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds
- synchronism n
- Simultaneousness
- syndicate n
- An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise
- syneresis n
- The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever
- synod n
- An ecclesiastical council
- synonym n
- A word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other
- synopsis n
- A syllabus or summary
- systematic adj
- Methodical
- tableau n
- An arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life
- tacit adj
- Understood
- taciturn adj
- Disinclined to conversation
- tack n
- A small sharp-pointed nail
- tact n
- Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing
- tactician n
- One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness
- tactics n
- Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object
- tangency n
- The state of touching
- tangent adj
- Touching
- tangible adj
- Perceptible by touch
- tannery n
- A place where leather is tanned
- tantalize v
- To tease
- tantamount adj
- Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import
- tapestry n
- A fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings
- tarnish v
- To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way
- taut adj
- Stretched tight
- taxation n
- A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution
- taxidermy n
- The art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them
- technic adj
- Technical
- technicality n
- Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like
- technique n
- Manner of performance
- technography n
- The scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development
- technology n
- The knowledge relating to industries and manufactures
- teem v
- To be full to overflowing
- telepathy n
- Thought-transference
- telephony n
- The art or process of communicating by telephone
- telescope v
- To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass
- telltale adj
- That gives warning or information
- temerity n
- Recklessness
- temporal adj
- Pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life
- temporary adj
- Lasting for a short time only
- temporize v
- To pursue a policy of delay
- tempt v
- To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong
- tempter n
- An allurer or enticer to evil
- tenacious adj
- Unyielding
- tenant n
- An occupant
- tendency n
- Direction or inclination, as toward some objector end
- tenet n
- Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true
- tenor n
- A settled course or manner of progress
- tense adj
- Strained to stiffness
- tentative adj
- Done as an experiment
- tenure n
- The term during which a thing is held
- tercentenary adj
- Pertaining to a period of 300 years
- termagant adj
- Violently abusive and quarrelsome
- terminal adj
- Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit
- terminate v
- To put an end or stop to
- termination n
- The act of ending or concluding
- terminus n
- The final point or goal
- terrify v
- To fill with extreme fear
- territorial adj
- Pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction
- terse adj
- Pithy
- testament n
- A will
- testator n
- The maker of a will
- testimonial n
- A formal token of regard, often presented in public
- thearchy n
- Government by a supreme deity
- theism n
- Belief in God
- theocracy n
- A government administered by ecclesiastics
- theocrasy n
- The mixed worship of polytheism
- theologian n
- A professor of divinity
- theological adj
- Based on or growing out of divine revelation
- theology n
- The branch of theological science that treats of God
- theoretical adj
- Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications
- theorist n
- One given to speculating
- theorize v
- To speculate
- thereabout adv
- Near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately
- therefor adv
- For that or this
- thermal adj
- Of or pertaining to heat
- thermoelectric adj
- Denoting electricity produced by heat
- thermoelectricity n
- Electricity generated by differences of temperature,
- thesis n
- An essay or treatise on a particular subject
- thoroughbred adj
- Bred from the best or purest blood or stock
- thoroughfare n
- A public street or road
- thrall n
- One controlled by an appetite or a passion
- tilth n
- Cultivation
- timbre n
- The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch
- timorous adj
- Lacking courage
- tincture n
- A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine
- tinge n
- A faint trace of color
- tipsy adj
- Befuddled with drinks
- tirade n
- Harangue
- tireless adj
- Untiring
- tiresome adj
- Wearisome
- Titanic adj
- Of vast size or strength
- toilsome adj
- Laborious
- tolerable adj
- Moderately good
- tolerance n
- Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others
- tolerant adj
- Indulgent
- tolerate v
- To passively permit or put up with
- toleration n
- A spirit of charitable leniency
- topography n
- The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy
- torpor n
- Apathy
- torrid adj
- Excessively hot
- tortious adj
- Wrongful
- tortuous adj
- Abounding in irregular bends or turns
- torturous adj
- Marked by extreme suffering
- tractable adj
- Easily led or controlled
- trait n
- A distinguishing feature or quality
- trajectory n
- The path described by a projectile moving under given forces
- trammel n
- An impediment
- tranquil adj
- Calm
- tranquilize v
- To soothe
- tranquility n
- Calmness
- transalpine adj
- Situated on the other side of the Alps
- transact v
- To do business
- transatlantic adj
- Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic
- transcend v
- To surpass
- transcendent adj
- Surpassing
- transcontinental adj
- Extending or passing across a continent
- transcribe v
- To write over again (something already written)
- transcript n
- A copy made directly from an original
- transfer v
- To convey, remove, or cause to pass from one person or place to another
- transferable adj
- Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another
- transferee n
- The person to whom a transfer is made
- transference n
- The act of conveying from one person or place to another
- transferrer n
- One who or that which conveys from one person or place to another
- transfigure v
- To give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to
- transfuse v
- To pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another
- transfusible adj
- Capable of being poured from one vessel to another
- transfusion n
- The act of pouring from one vessel to another
- transgress v
- To break a law
- transience n
- Something that is of short duration
- transient n
- One who or that which is only of temporary existence
- transition n
- Passage from one place, condition, or action to another
- transitory adj
- Existing for a short time only
- translate v
- To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect
- translator n
- An interpreter
- translucence n
- The property or state of allowing the passage of light
- translucent adj
- Allowing the passage of light
- transmissible adj
- That may e sent through or across
- transmission n
- The act of sending through or across