Vocab 30 Flashcards
Staid
serious/unadventurous
Stimulus
Something that incites/quickens action, feeling, thought
Stoic
A person who can endure pain without showing feelings
Stratagem
A plan used to outwit an opponent
Strenuous
Requiring great energy.
Subdue
To bring under control
YOU SUBDUE A PERSON
Substantiated
Supported with evidence
Superficial
Shallow
Superfluous
Exceeding what is necessary
Suppress
To forcibly put an end to something
YOU SUPPRESS “SOMETHING’ NOT HUMAN
Surreptitious
Done in a secret manner
Sustain
To support/hold from below
To prolong
Parallelism
using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasize similar ideas in a sentence.
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”