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Terms
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- sham
- pretend; feign; ADJ: not genuine; fake; Ex. sham jewelry; N: something that is not what it appears; impostor; pretense; Ex. The agreement was a sham
- shard
- fragment generally of broken pottery (glass, clay bowl, or cup)
- shaving
- very thin piece, usually of wood (cut from a surface with a sharp blade)
- sheaf
- bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together
- shear
- remove (fleece or hair) by cutting; remove the hair or fleece from; cut with or as if with shears; N: shears; pair of scissors
- sheathe
- place into a case; insert into or provide with a sheath; Ex. He sheathed his dagger; N. sheath: case for a blade
- sheer
- pure; thin and transparent; very steep
- shirk
- avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger
- shoddy
- made of inferior material; sham; not genuine; inferior; dishonest; Ex. shoddy goods/trick
- shrew
- scolding woman; very small mouselike animal
- shrivel
- make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying)
- shudder
- shake uncontrollably; tremble; V.
- shunt
- move (a railway train) from one track to another; turn aside; divert; sidetrack; Ex. shunt traffic around an accident; N
- shyster
- lawyer using questionable methods; unscrupulous practioner
- sibylline
- prophetic; oracular; N. sibyl: woman prophet (in the ancient world)
- sidereal
- relating to stars; Ex. sidereal day
- sift
- put through a sieve to separate fine from coarse particles; sort or examine carefully
- silt
- sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)
- simian
- monkeylike; N: ape or monkey
- simper
- smirk; smile in a silly way; smile affectedly