Word List 7 S-Z Flashcards
(37 cards)
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Sanction
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- Official approval
2. Official punishment
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Salubrious
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Good for one’s health
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Scoff
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To ridicule, to mock
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Sedulous
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Hard-working
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Sentient
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Aware, sensitive, feeling
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Skulk
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To sneak around
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Smolder
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To burn slowly
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Soporific
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Causing sleep, boring
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Spurious
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Illegitimate, deceitful
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Squelch
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To squash, to crush
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Stupefy
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To stun or shock
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Subliminal
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Existing beyond consciousness or awareness, existing in the subconscious
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Sully
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To dirty
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Suppleness
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Flexibility, bendability
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Surreptitious
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Sneaky
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Swindler
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A cheat
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Tacit
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Expressed without words
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Technocrat
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One who believes in government by technical experts
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Tensile
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Bendable
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Toady
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Flatterer, asskisser
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Trifling
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Of slight importance
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Tumultuous
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Greatly disturbing, stormy
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Unabashedly
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Unashamedly, without excuse or explanation
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Unremitting
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Constant
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Upshot
Outcome, final result
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Vapid
Without force, uninteresting
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Veneer
Thin covering of nice-looking material
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Verdant
Green with vegetation
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Vestigial
Having a trace of something lost
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Virulent
1. Harmful
| 2. Bitter
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Vociferous
Loud and demanding
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Voracious
Having a huge appetite, greedy
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Waive
To give up (a right etc.)
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Waylay
To lie in wait for, to attack by surprise
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Whelp
Young animal
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Wretchedness
Misery
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Yoke
To connect, to join
