S Vocabulary Flashcards

(75 cards)

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Sage

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Wise

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Salacious

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Lustful

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Salutary

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Expecting an improvement, favourable to health

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Sardonic

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Cynical, scornfully mocking

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Sartorial

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Pertaining to tailors

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Satiate

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Satisfy

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Saturate

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To soak thoroughly

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Saturnine

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Gloomy

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Satyr

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Creature that is half man, half beast with horns and legs as goats

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Savor

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To enjoy, distinctive flavour/smell

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Schematic

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Relating to or in form of outline, diagram

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Secrete

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Produce/release substance into organism

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Sanction

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To approve, permit

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Sedition

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Behaviour prompting rebellion

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Sedulous

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Diligent

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Seismic

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Relating to earthquakes

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Sensual

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Relating to senses, especially sexual appetites

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Sensuous

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Relating to senses, operating through them

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Sentient

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Aware, conscious

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Servile

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Submissive, obedient

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Sextant

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Navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

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Shard

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A piece of broken glass or pottery

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Sidereal

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Relating to the stars

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Simian
Ape like
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Simile
Comparison of one thing with another using “like” or “as”
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Sinecure
Well paying job/office that requires little to no work
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Singular
Unique, odd
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Sinuous
Winding, complex, intricate
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Skeptic
One who doubts
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Sobriety
Seriousness
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Sodden
Thoroughly soaked/saturated
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Solicitous
Concerned, eager
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Soliloquy
Literary or dramatic speech by one character
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Solvent
Able to meet financial obligations
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Somatic
Relating to or affecting the body
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Soporific
Sleep producing
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Sordid
Filthy, corrupt
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Specious
Seeming to be logical and sound but isn’t
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Spectrum
Band of colours from sunlight. Creates prism
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Spendthrift
Person who spends money recklessly
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Sporadic
Irregular
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Squalor
Filthy, wretched condition
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Staccato
Marked by abrupt, clear cut sounds
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Stint
To be sparing
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Stipulate
To specify as an essential condition
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Stolid
Having or showing little emotion
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Stratified
Arranged in layers
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Striated
Marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels
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Stanch
To stop or check the flow of
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Stentorian
Extremely loud
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Stigma
Mark of disgrace or inferiority
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Structure
Something that restrains, negative criticism
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Strident
Loud, harsh, noise
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Strut
Swagger
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Stultify
To impair, reduce to uselessness
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Stupefy
To dull the senses of, astonish
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Stygian
Dark and gloomy, hellish
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Subpoena
Notice ordering someone to appear in court
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Subside
To settle down, grow quiet
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Substantiate
To support with proof/evidence
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Substantive
Essential, pertaining to the substance
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Subsume
To include, incorporate
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Subversive
Intended to undermine or overthrow
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Succor
Relief, help in time of distress or want
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Suffrage
The right to vote
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Sundry
Various
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Supersede
To replace
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Supine
Laying on back, marked by lethargy
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Supplant
To replace/substitute
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Suppliant
Beseeching (ask or request)
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Supplicant
One who asks humbly and earnestly
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Supposition
The act of assuming to be true or real
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Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning that has major, minor premise and conclusion
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Sylvan
Related to woods or forest