Shelnut vocab. 11
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- Sonorous
- producing, full or loud sound; imposing or impressive in effect or style
- Suppleness
- flexibility, ability to bend easily
- Stripling
- a young lad
- Subservient
- obsequious; servile, excessively submissive
- Surfeit
- a glut, excess
- Sycophant
- a self-seeking, servile flatterer; one who attempts to win favor by flattering persons of influence
- Stentorian
- extremely loud
- Somniferous
- inducing sleep
- Secular
- relating to wordly things, not religious
- Succinct
- brief, concise
- Scurrilous
- using language containing indecency or abuse; obscenely joking; vulgar
- Saffron
- orange or yellow
- Simile
- a comparison using like or as
- Tarry
- to linger; loiter
- Saturnine
- gloomy; morose
- Sagacious
- wise, esp. from experience
- Superfluity
- an excessive amount of something—luxury or insincerity
- Savvy
- shrewd, catching on quickly
- Sinister
- evil, threatening
- Synecdoche
- using a part to represent the whole
- Sophistry
- clever but deceptive reasoning; plausible but misleading argument
- Ruminate
- to meditate upon; to muse at length; to chew over; to ponder
- Sobriquet
- a nickname
- Sapient
- wise, sagacious
- Savant
- a learned person
- Synthesis
- a combination
- Saline
- salty
- Segue
- an immediate transition from one thing to another
- Teetotaler
- one who refrains from alcohol
- Scrupulous
- conscientious and careful to detail - having ethical values
- Sensate
- perceived through the senses
- Staid
- primly self-restrained; serious-minded
- Spate
- a flood of something
- Subterfuge
- a deception; artifice; a trick or tactic used to avoid or conceal something
- Synchronized
- occuring at the same time
- Semblance
- an outward appearance
- Rout
- to force out
- Tempestuous
- stormy,tumultuous
- Sebaceous
- oily, greasy
- Stringent
- strict, rigid
- Scintillate
- to sparkle
- Succumb
- to yeild; give away to a superior force
- Sedition
- rebellion; conduct that is rebellious
- Sardonic
- bitterly scornful, sarcasatic
- Sedentary
- characterized by sitting; not moving
- Sanguine
- red like blood; hopeful, anticipating the best
- Swathe
- to wrap or bind
- Rueful
- sorrowful
- Stymie
- to obstruct or impede
- Spurious
- false or untrue
- Swarthy
- dark-colored; tanned by the sun
- Soporific
- sleep inducing
- Surreptitious
- done by stealth or without proper authority
- Somnolent
- inclined or heavy with sleep; drowsy; sleepy; of a kind likely to induce sleep
- Sinecure
- any office or position that brings profit without work or responsibility
- Sultry
- hot and moist; seductively "hot"
- Stolid
- showing little emotion
- Subside
- to lessen, abate, wane, ebb
- Synopsis
- a plot summary
- Shrewd
- astute, keen, cunning
- Sedate
- to calm or to sooth
- Spawn
- to lay eggs; to engender or create; to give birth to; to produce
- Tenebrous
- dark, gloomy
- Sporadic
- happening only occasionally
- Rove
- roam
- Substantiate
- to verify, prove true
- Salient
- standing out conspicuously; of immediate importance; prominent; striking
- Suffuse
- to overspread; to spread through; saturate
- Stygian
- gloomy and dark; hellish; infernal (like the River Styx in the mythical Underworld)
- Sprite
- an elf-like spirit
- Shard
- a fragment or piece
- Slothful
- lazy
- Stationary
- not moving
- Sinuous
- bending in and out; winding; serpentine
- Sanctimonious
- pretending to be virtuous or devout; pretending to be righteous
- Scion
- offspring
- Subtle
- faint, lightly suggestive
- Surly
- hostile, sullenly rude