| Question |
Answer |
| saga |
long adventure story |
| sagacious |
wise |
| salacious |
lecherous/erotically stimulating |
| sanguine |
reddish/blood-colored |
| sanguine (2) |
optimistic/cheerful |
| scanty |
insufficient/small |
| scrutiny |
inspection/study/careful and searching |
| sedate |
to soothe/to calm/to tranquilize |
| sedative |
something that sedates |
| sedition |
conduct or language inciting rebellion against authority |
| sequester |
to separate/to set apart/to isolate |
| servile |
humbly yielding/submissive |
| shiftless |
lazy/showing lack of motivation |
| simultaneous |
happening at the same time |
| sinister |
foreboding of evil |
| skeptical |
doubting/disbelieving |
| sloth |
indolence/inactivity |
| slovenly |
messy/characteristic of a slob |
| somber |
dark/dull/gloomy |
| soporific |
sleep-inducing |
| sparse |
thinly spread or distributed/not crowded |
| stagnant |
not moving or flowing/motionless |
| stagnate |
to be stagnant |
| static |
having no motion/at rest/stationary |
| steadfast |
fixed or unchanging |
| steadfast(2) |
faithful |
| stolid |
showing little emotion or pain/emotionally solid |
| submission |
the act of yielding to the authority of another |
| subvert |
to overthrow or undermine the power of |
| succulent |
juicy/interesting |
| suffrage |
the right to vote/franchise |
| summon |
to call forth/to call together |
| supercilious |
haughty/conceited/disdanful |
| superfluous |
beyond what's necessary/extra |
| superlative |
most/of the highest order/surpassing all others |
| supersede |
to take the place of |
| surreptitious |
done secretly/ done by stealth |
| swindle |
to cheat or defraud |
| sycophant |
servile person who follows and flatters another person in the hope of winning favor |
| synthetic |
not real/man-made/fabricated |
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