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Salubrious

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Good for health

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Salient

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Prominent

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Salutary

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Useful

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Salve

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Something that calms

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Sanctimonious

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Making an exaggerated show of holiness/moral superiority

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Sanction

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Authorization

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Sanguine

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Confident

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Sardonic

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Disdainfully mocking

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Savant

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Wise or scholarly person

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Savvy

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Shrews/well informed

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Schematic

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Showing basic layout or form of something

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Scintillating

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Dazzlingly impressive

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Scour

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To clean by rubbing

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Scrupulous

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Having moral integrity; precise

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Scurrilous

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Abusive or defamatory

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Seance

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Meeting to speak with the dead

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Sedate

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Unhurried

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Seditious

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Involving or encouraging rebellion against government/ authority

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Sedulous

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Working persistently, painstaking

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Semaphore

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Mechanical signaling device

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Semblance

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Outside aspect/appearance; an assumed or unreal appearance

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Seminal

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Influential

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Sequester

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To seclude, put into isolation

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Serendipity

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Gift for discovery, good fortune, luck

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Sermonize
Lecture someone about behavior
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Sierra
Rugged mountain range
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Sinecure
Paid job requiring little work
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Sinuous
Bendy; indirect
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Skinflint
Mean, naggy person
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Sleuth
Detective
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Slicker
Raincoat
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Slipshod
Careless
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Slovenly
Disheveled
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Solicit
Plead
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Solicitous
Concerned
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Soliloquy
Talking when alone
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Somnolent
Sleepy
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Sonorous
Deep resonant sound
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Sophistry
Seemingly clever but flawed method of argumentation
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Soporific
Making someone sleepy
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Spate
Large quantity
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Spurious
Not genuine
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Spurn
Reject someone with disdain
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Squalid
Repulsive
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Squall
Windstorm
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Stagnation
Condition of no activity
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Staid
Sober & steady
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Stark
Bare & plain; harsh
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Statute
Law enacted by legislature
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Stenography
Shorthand writing or typing
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Stevedore
Dockworker
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Stilted
Stiffly dignified or formal; pompous
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Stipulate
Specify something
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Stock
Banal
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Stolid
Solemn; little or no emotion
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Strident
Loud
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Stringent
Rigorous/severe
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Stymie
Hinder the progress of
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Sublimate
Redirect (to channel impulses regarded as unacceptable into activities more socially acceptable)
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Subsidiary
Secondary in importance
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Subsist
Manage to live
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Subvert
Overthrow something
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Succulent
Juicy and tasty
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Sundry
Various
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Supercilious
Contemptuously indifferent
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Supine
Lying on back; inactive
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Supplant
Replace
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Supposition
Hypothesis
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Surfeit
Excessive number
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Surmise
Make guess about something
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Surreptitious
Secret
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Surrogate
Substitute
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Sycophant
Fawning flatterer
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Symptomatic
Characteristic; typical or indicative of something
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Syncopate
Modify rhythm by accenting weak beat
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Synergy
Combined effort being greater than parts