S Flashcards
(33 cards)
Salubrious
Good for you
Not just food and drink
Salubrious mountain air
Sacrosanct
SAH kro sankt
Extremely important, never can be changed or interrupted
Sacrosanct family reunion
Scathing
Of criticism
Harsh
Scion
SIGH uhn
Child or heir in rich or prominent family
Seditious
Arousing action in an act that rebels against government authority.
Sedulous
Assiduous
Characteristic of one who works hard and doesn’t give up.
Semantics
The study of meaning of language
Seminal
New and revolutionary that inspires everything to come after
Sentient
SEHN chent
Able to feel things. Possess emotions.
Sequester
Keep apart from others.
Sequester myself in my room
Serendipity
Unexpected good luck
Sibylline
Describing a prophecy or prophet
Somatic
Relating to the body
Specious
SPEE
Use specious to describe an argument that seems to be good, correct, or logical, but is not so
Spurn
To reject with disdain
Squalid
Unkempt and neglected.
A squalid frat house
Morally wrong behavior
Squander
To waste money
Statutory
Related to laws, statutes
Striate
To mark with striae, like furrows in a field.
Stultify
Drain of energy. Transitive
Subliminal
Below conscious perception. Subliminal message is one used to control another but they’re not aware of it.
Subsidiary
Secondary, auxiliary, like a company owned by another.
Subversive
Trying to undermine authority
Sully
V
To try to ruin one’s reputation
You sully a reputation, not a person