Word List 47

Question 1

sanatorium

Answer 1

an establishment that provides therapy combined with a regimen for treatment or rehabilitation
an establishment for the treatment of the chronically ill

Question 2

sangfroid

Answer 2

self-possession or imperturbability especially under strain

e.g. The professional gambler seemed to take both his wins and his losses with remarkable sangfroid.

Question 3

sapling

Answer 3

a young tree

youth

Question 4

sardonic

Answer 4

disdainfully or skeptically humorous; derisively mocking

e.g. a sardonic little jab that made her visitor quiet and subdued for the rest of the night

Question 5

sate

Answer 5

to cloy with overabundance; glut 
to appease (as a thirst) by indulging to the full

e.g. sate the appetite of vampire-hungry fans

Question 6

scabrous

Answer 6

difficult, knotty
rough to touch
dealing with suggestive, indecent, or scandalous themes; salacious; also, squalid

e.g. a scabrous problem
scabrous paint/skin
a movie with scabrous humor

Question 7

scad

Answer 7

(informal) a great number or quantity

Question 8

paucity

Answer 8

smallness of number; fewness
smallness of quantity; dearth

e.g. a paucity of useful answers to the problem of traffic congestion at rush hour

Question 9

scamper

Answer 9

to run nimbly and usually playfully about

Question 10

scarp

Answer 10

a line of cliffs produced by faulting or erosion

a low steep slope along a beach caused by wave erosion

Question 11

scintillate

Answer 11

to emit sparks; spark
to throw off as a spark or as sparkling flashes

e.g. star scintillating in the sky
scintillate witticisms

Question 12

scission

Answer 12

a division or split in a group or union; schism

e.g. fears that the scission of the labor union will compromise the workers’ bargaining power

Question 13

scour

Answer 13

to rub or scrub
to clean by purging; purge
to move about quickly especially in search

e.g. They scoured the grounds for the missing keys.

Question 14

screed

Answer 14

a lengthy discourse

e.g. In her screed against the recording industry, she blamed her producer for ruining her career.

Question 15

scrumptious

Answer 15

delightful, excellent; especially, delicious

Question 16

scud

Answer 16

to move or run swiftly especially as if driven forward
rush
loose vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind
a slight sudden shower
a gust of wind

e.g. clouds scudding across the sky
A cold scud sent leaves skittering down from the trees.

Question 17

scutter

Answer 17

scurry, scamper

Question 18

seafaring

Answer 18

the use of the sea for travel or transportation

Question 19

seclude

Answer 19

to remove or separate from intercourse or outside influence; isolate
shut off, screen

e.g. seclude themselves from the turmoil of secular affairs

Question 20

sedition

Answer 20

incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

e.g. The leaders of the group have been arrested and charged with sedition.

Question 21

seditious

Answer 21

• sedition

e. g. Several dissidents were jailed for leading protests that the government branded as seditious.

Question 22

senile

Answer 22

of, relating to, exhibiting, or characteristic of old age; especially, exhibiting a loss of cognitive abilities associated with old age

Question 23

sententious

Answer 23

given to or abounding in aphoristic expression
given to or abounding in excessive moralizing
terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression; pithy, epigrammatic

e.g. a smug and sententious writer
a sententious crank who has written countless letters to the editor about the decline in family values

Question 24

sequacious

Answer 24

intellectually servile; (of a person) lacking independence or originality of thought

e.g. The human race is gregarious and sequacious, rather than individual and adventurous.

Question 25

sequela

Answer 25

an aftereffect of a disease, condition, or injury | a secondary result

Question 26

serendipity

Answer 26

the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also, an instance of this e.g. They found each other by pure serendipity.

Question 27

sermonize

Answer 27

to compose or deliver a sermon to speak didactically or dogmatically e.g. a teacher who can talk to her students about serious subjects without sermonizing

Question 28

shanty

Answer 28

a small crudely built dwelling or shelter usually of wood

Question 29

shawl

Answer 29

a square or oblong usually fabric garment or wrapper used especially as a covering for the head or shoulders

Question 30

sheaf

Answer 30

a quantity of stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together a large amount or number e.g. contends that casino gambling would generate a sheaf of social problems for the state

Question 31

sheen

Answer 31

a bright or shining condition; brightness e.g. polished the metal until it had an even sheen

Question 32

shibboleth

Answer 32

a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning a widely held belief; also, truism, platitude a custom or usage regarded as distinct of a group e.g. She repeated the old shibboleth that time heals all wounds. Accent was a shibboleth of social class.

Question 33

shuffle

Answer 33

to work into or out of trickily to act or speak in a shifty or evasive manner e.g. shuffle out of the difficulty

Question 34

sidesplitting

Answer 34

extremely funny

Question 35

sidle

Answer 35

to go or move with one side foremost especially in a furtive advance to cause to move or turn sideways e.g. sidle up to him and slip him a note sidle through the narrow opening

Question 36

simian

Answer 36

of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes | monkey, ape

Question 37

skittish

Answer 37

lively or frisky in action; capricious easily frightened; restive coy, bashful; also, wary e.g. a skittish horse skittish about taking on such a large mortgage

Question 38

skulduggery

Answer 38

underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also, a devious device or trick e.g. The company's apparently healthy bottom line was merely an illusion, the result of years of accounting skulduggery.

Question 39

slapdash

Answer 39

haphazard, slipshod e.g. The investigation of the charges against the mayor was slapdash and not very thorough.

Question 40

slaver

Answer 40

drool, slobber to fawn e.g. a dog slavering over a bone suburbanites slavering over drop-dead models

Question 41

sleazy

Answer 41

lacking firmness of texture; flimsy marked by low character or quality squalid, dilapidated e.g. a dancer in a sleazy outfit a sleazy lothario who is always on the make

Question 42

sleight

Answer 42

deceitful craftiness; also, stratagem dexterity, skill e.g. employ some sophisticated sleight to con that wary couple out of their money a brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind

Question 43

slobber

Answer 43

drool to indulge the feelings effusively and without restraint driveling, sloppy, or incoherent utterance e.g. The baby just slobbered on the blanket.

Question 44

sloven

Answer 44

one habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness especially in personal appearance

Question 45

slew

Answer 45

to turn about a fixed point to cause to skid; veer e.g. slew a car around a turn

Question 46

slump

Answer 46

to fall or sink suddenly also e.g. slumping sales The economy has been in a slump since last year.

Question 47

snappish

Answer 47

given to curt irritable speech arising from annoyance or irascibility inclined to bite e.g. a snappish remark/dog

Question 48

snappy

Answer 48

quickly made or done marked by vigor or liveliness briskly cold stylish, smart e.g. a snappy decision snappy dialogue / a snappy dresser

Question 49

sojourn

Answer 49

a temporary stay e.g. The family enjoyed a two-week sojourn in the mountains.

Question 50

somnolent

Answer 50

sleep-inducing inclined to or heavy with sleep; drowsy sluggish e.g. a somnolent sermon somnolent rivers

Question 51

souse

Answer 51

``` pickle to plunge in liquid; immerse to make drunk something pickled wetting a habitual drunkard; also, a drinking spree; binge ```

Question 52

spangle

Answer 52

small glittering object or particle to set or sprinkle with or as if with spangles to glitter as if covered with spangled; sparkle

Question 53

spasmodic

Answer 53

relating to or resembling a spasm especially in sudden violence acting or proceeding fitfully; intermittent e.g. a spasmodic jerk spasmodic attempts to lose weight

Question 54

spoor

Answer 54

a track by which the progress of someone or something may be followed

Question 55

spunk

Answer 55

spirit, courage, and determination e.g. had the spunk to overcome a severe physical disability

Question 56

spurn

Answer 56

to tread sharply or heavily upon; trample to reject with disdain or contempt; scorn e.g. Fiercely independent, the elderly couple spurned all offers of financial help.

Question 57

star-crossed

Answer 57

not favored by the stars; ill-fated

Question 58

stoop

Answer 58

to bend down or over yield, submit to descend from a superior rank, dignity, or status debase, degrade e.g. She stooped down to hug the child. stooped to lying

Question 59

stouthearted

Answer 59

courageous | stubborn

Question 60

straggle

Answer 60

to move along slowly, typically in a small irregular group, so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front to grow, spread, or be laid out in an irregular, untidy way; trail an untidy or irregularly arranged mass or group of something e.g. The trees straggle over the countryside. a straggle of cottages

Question 61

stupendous

Answer 61

causing astonishment or wonder; awesome, marvelous of amazing size or greatness; tremendous e.g. a person with stupendous wealth the stupendous engineering feats achieved by the ancient Romans

Question 62

subscribe

Answer 62

sign to pledge (a gift or contribution) to assent to; support to feel favorably disposed e.g. unwilling to subscribe to the agreement subscribe a large sum to the flood relief fund I subscribe to your sentiments.

Question 63

subsist

Answer 63

to have existence persist, continue to hold true e.g. The author's right to royalties shall subsist for the term of the copyright.

Question 64

substratum

Answer 64

an underlying support; foundation e.g. drilled into the bedrock substratum

Question 65

subvention

Answer 65

the provision of assistance or financial support e.g. The committee receives an annual subvention from the foundation to run the museum.

Question 66

sully

Answer 66

to make soiled or tarnished; defile e.g. sully a reputation

Question 67

sundry

Answer 67

miscellaneous, various (all and sundry: everybody) e.g. draw design inspirations from sundry cultures

Question 68

superannuated

Answer 68

outmoded, old-fashioned older than the typical member of a specified group e.g. a periodical that insists on using largely superannuated terms like "editress" and "aviatrix"