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Servile

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Submissive and subservient

Like a servant

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Serendipity

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Accidental good fortune

Discovering food things without looking for them.

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Singular

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Unique
Superior
Exceptional
Strange

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Sinister

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Evil
Wicked
Foreshadowing evil, trouble, or wickedness

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Slander

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To speak badly about someone publicly
To defame
To spread malicious rumors

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Sloth

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Laziness

Sluggishness

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Sobriety

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The state if being sober

Seriousness

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Solicitous

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Eager and attentive, often to the point of hovering

Anxiously caring or attentive

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Solvent

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Not broke or bankrupt

Able to pay one’s bills

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Soporific

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Sleep inducing
Boring
Sleepy

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Sordid

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Vile
Filthy
Squalid

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Spawn

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To bring forth

To produce a large number

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Specious

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Deceptively plausible or attractive

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Sporadic

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Stopping and starting
Scattered
Occurring in bursts every once in a while

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Spurious

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False

Fake

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Squalor

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Filth

Wretched, degraded, or repulsive living conditions

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Squander

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To waste

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Stagnation

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Motionless

Inactivity

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Static

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Stationary

Not changing or moving

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Staunch

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Firmly committed
Firmly in favor of
Steadfast

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Steadfast

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Loyal

Faithful

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Stigmatize

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To brand with disgrace

To set a mark if disgrace upon

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Stipulate

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To require something as part of an agreement

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Stoic

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Indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain, to joy or grief, to fortune or misfortune

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Stratum

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A layer

Level

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Stricture

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A restriction
A limitation
A negative criticism

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Strife

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Bitter conflict
Discord
A struggle or clash

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Stringent

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Strict

Restrictive

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Stymie

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To thwart
To get in the way of
To hinder

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Subjugate

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To subdue and dominate

To enslave

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Sublime

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Extremely exalted
Awesome
Lofty
Majestic

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Subordinate

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Lower in importance, position, or rank

Secondary

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Substantive

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Having substance
Real
Essential
Solid
Substantial
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Subtle

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Not obvious
Able to make fine distinctions
Ingenious
Crafty

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Subversive

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Corrupting
Overthrowing
Undermining
Insurgent

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Succinct

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Brief and to the point

Concise

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Succumb

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To yield or submit

To die

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Supercilious

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Haughty

Patronizing

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Superficial

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On the surface only
Shallow
Not thorough

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Superfluous

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Extra
Unnecessary
Redundant

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Surfeit

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Excess
An excessive amount
Excess or over indulgence in eating or drinking

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Surreptitious

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Sneaky

Secret

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Surrogate

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Substitute

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Sycophant

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One who sucks up to others

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Synthesis

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The combining of parts to form a whole