S Flashcards
(39 cards)
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Saccharine
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Excessively sweet
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Sacrilegious
A
Impious
3
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Salient
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Prominent
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Sanctimonious
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Hypocritically devout
5
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Satiate
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To satisfy fully or to excess
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Saturnine
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Slow to act
7
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Savant
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A person of learning
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Scrupulous
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Punctiliously exact
9
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Seamy
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Unpleasant
10
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Secular
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Relating to the world
11
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Sedition
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Behavior that promotes rebellion
12
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Seminal
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Creative
13
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Sequester
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To set apart
14
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Seraphic
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Angellic
15
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Simian
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Apelike
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Sinecure
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A well-paying job that requires less or no work
17
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Sobriquet
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A nickname
18
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Sojourn
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Visit
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Solicitous
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Full of desire
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Sophomoric
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Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgement
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Spartan
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Frugal
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Specious
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Deceptively attractive
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Sportive
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Playful
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Squalid
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Filthy and degraded as the result if poverty
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Stalwart
Marked by outstanding strength
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Stasis
Stagnation
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Stint
To be sparing
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Stipulate
To specify as a condition of an agreement
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Stratify
To arrange
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Strident
Harsh, laud
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Stringent
Imposing sever
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Stymie
To block
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Subterranean
Secret
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Sully
To tarnish
35
Superfluous
Extra
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Supersede
To cause to be set aside
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Supplant
To replace by force
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Surmount
To overcome
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Sybarite
A person devote to pleasure
