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- saccharine
- overly sweet, mawkish
- sagacious
- wise
- sage
- a wise person
- salacious
- obscene, lusty
- salient
- significant, conspicuous
- sallow
- sickly pale
- salubrious
- healthful
- salutary
- healthful, wholesome
- sangfroid
- calmness, composure
- sanguinary
- bloody
- sanguine
- cheerful, optimistic
- sapient
- wise
- saturnine
- gloomy, sluggish
- saunter
- to stroll, to walk leisurely
- savant
- a person of extensive learning
- savoir faire
- tact; knowledge of just waht to do in any situation
- scintilla
- a tiny amount, a speck (scintillily)
- scintillate
- to sparkle, twinkle
- scion
- an offspring, a descendant
- scrupulous
- honest, ethical, precise
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive, vulgar
- scuttle
- to sink, to abandon
- sebaceous
- fatty
- secrete
- to hide or conceal
- secular
- worldly, nonreligious
- sedentary
- sitting most of the time
- sedition
- rebellion
- sedulous
- hard-working, industrious, diligent
- sensate
- pertaining to feeling
- sententious
- concise, including proverbs and brief remarks
- sentient
- conscious, capable of feeling
- sequester
- to separate, to set aside
- seraphic
- angelic, pure
- shibboleth
- a slogal, a password
- shiftless
- lazy, inefficent
- sibilant
- hissing
- simper
- to smile in a silly way
- simulacrum
- an image, a likeness
- sinecure
- job with no responsibility
- sinewy
- tough, firm
- sinuous
- curving, winding
- skinflint
- stingy person, miser
- skittish
- restless, excitable, nervous
- skulduggery
- trickery, deception
- slake
- to lessen by satisfying, to quench
- slattern
- an untidy woman
- slough off
- to discard, to shed
- slovenly
- untidy, dirty, careless
- sobriquet
- nickname, assumed name
- specious
- not genuine, pleasing to the eye but deceptive.. spec, eye
- splenetic
- bad-tempered, irritable
- spume
- foam
- spurious
- deceitful, counterfeit
- spurn
- to reject
- stagnant
- not flowing, stale, sluggish
- staid
- sedate, settled
- stalwart
- strong, sturdy
- stentorian
- very loud
- stigma
- mark of disgrace
- stilted
- artifically formal
- stint
- to be sparing, to converse
- stipulate
- to specify, to arrange definitely
- stolid
- impassive, having little emotion
- stratagem
- a plan, scheme, or trick
- striated
- striped, marked with lines
- stricture
- negative criticism, a restriction
- strident
- harsh sounding, loud and shrill
- stringent
- strict, tight
- stultify
- make absurd or ridiculous, render worthless
- stygian
- dark, gloomy
- stymie
- to hinder, to block
- subjective
- not objective, personal
- subjugate
- to conquer
- sublimate
- to make a person act noble or moral
- suborn
- to hire for an unlawful act.. hitman
- subservient
- submissive
- subsidiary
- auxiliary, supplementary
- subversive
- tending to overthrow or undermind
- succinct
- concise, brief and to the point
- succor
- assistance, help, relief
- sully
- to soil, stain, or tarnish
- sumptuous
- luxurious, lavish, extravagant
- sundry
- varied, assorted
- supercilious
- proud, haughty
- supernal
- heavenly
- supernumerary
- extra, more than necessary
- supersede
- to take the place of
- supervene
- to take place or occur unexpectedly
- supplant
- to replace
- supple
- flexible
- suppliant
- begging, asking humbly
- supplicate
- to pray humbly, to beg
- surfeit
- an excessive amount
- surreptitious
- acting in a sneaky way.. clandestine
- surrogate
- substitute
- sustenance
- nourishment, nutriment
- susurration
- whispering, murmuring
- suture
- to join together
- svelte
- slender, graceful
- swarthe
- to wrap closely or fully
- swarthy
- dark-complexioned
- sybarite
- one who is fond of luxuries and pleasure
- sycophant
- a flatterer, a parasite
- sylvan
- wooded, pertaining to the forest.. silva - woods
- synthetic
- not genuine, artificial