Section 16- All S's Flashcards by Nasean Hicks

Sagacious (adj)

having sound judgment, preceptive, wise

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Sage (n)

person recognized as having great wisdom

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Salacious (adj)

appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy

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Salient (adj)

prominent, protruding, conspicuous, high relevant

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Salubrious (adj)

promoting health or well-being

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Salutary (adj)

remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanctimony (n)

self-righteousness, pretended piety

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Sanctimonious (adj)

hypocritically pretending to be pious or being excessively pious

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Sanction (n)

1) authoritative permission or approval 2) a penalty intended to enforce compliance

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Sanguine (adj)

cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Sap (v)

to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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Sap (n) (informal)

gullible person, a fool

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Satiate (v)

to overindulge, satisfy to excess

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Sate (v)

satisfy to the full

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Satire (n)

literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or design

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Saturnine (adj)

gloomy, dark, sullen, morse

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Scurvy (adj)

contemptible, despicable

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Sedulous (adj)

diligent, persistent, hard-working

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Seine (n)

a large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish

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Sere (adj)

withered, arid

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Seminal (adj)

like a seed, constituting a source, originative

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Shard (n)

a piece of broken pottery or glass, any small piece or part

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Simper (v)

to smirk, to say something with a silly coy smile

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Simper (n)

silly smile

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Sinecure (n)

position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income

Singular (adj)

exceptional, unusual, odd

Sinuous (adj)

winding, curving, moving lithely, devious

Slake (v)

to satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of

Sodden (adj)

soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull

Solder (v)

to weld, fuse or join, as with a smoldering gun

Solicitous (adj)

concerned and attentive, eager

Solvent (adj)

able to meet financial obligations

Sophistry (n)

fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic

fallacious

based on a mistaken belief

soph- (Greek)

wisdom

Sophomoric (adj)

exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgment, pretentious

Sophomoric (adj)

of or pertaining to a sophomore

Soporific (adj)

causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep

Sordid (adj)

characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul

Sparse (adj)

thin, not dense, arranged at widely spaced intervals

Specious (adj)

seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive

Spendthrift (n)

one who spends money wastefully

Splenetic (adj)

bad-tempered, irritable

Splenetic

relating to the spleen, which was the seat of ill temper in classical knowledge

Sporadic (adj)

occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances

Spurious (adj)

lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfiet

Squalid (adj)

sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect

Squalor (n)

wretched or filthy condition

Squander (v)

to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

Stanch (v)

to stop the flow of a fluid

Staunch (adj)

loyal and committed in attitude

Static (adj)

not moving, active or in motion, at rest

Steep (v)

to saturate or completely soak

Stentorian (adj)

extremely loud and powerful

Stint (v)

to restrain, be sparing or frugal

unstinting

bestowed liberally

Stint (n)

length of time spent in a specific way

Stoic (adj)

indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast

Stolid (adj)

calm, impassive

impassive

not feeling or showing emotion

Striated (adj)

striped, grooved, or banded

Strut (n)

a structural support used to brace a framework

Strut (v)

brace or support

Stupefy (v)

to stun, baffle, or amaze

Stymie (v)

to block, thwart

Subpoena (n)

a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

Subtle (adj)

not obvious, elusive, difficult to discern, crafty or sly

Succinct (adj)

brief, concise

Succor (n)

assistance, relief in time of distress

Sundry (adj)

various, miscellaneous, separate

Supercilious (adj)

disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn

Superfluous (adj)

exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

Supine (adj)

inactive, lying on one's back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack

Supplant (v)

to take the place of, supersede

Suppliant (adj)

asking humbly, beseeching

Suppliant (n)

making a humble plea to someone in power or authority

Supplicant (n)

beggar, one who prays or begs for something

Surfeit (v)

to feed or supply in excess

Surfeit (n)

excess, overindulgence

Sycophant (n)

someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite

Synthesis (n)

the combination of parts to make a whole