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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scission | secession |
| scour | sand |
| scrappy | made up of bits and pieces; not well organized; not complete |
| scrutable | COMPREHENSIBLE |
| scurrilous | abusive and insulting, esp in a crude or obscene way |
| sedulous | showing much hard work, steady effort or care |
| seemly | proper and suitable by the standards of polite society |
| sententious | expressing pompous moral judgements |
| sequela | A secondary consequence or result |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| shunt | move (a railway locomotive, wagons, etc) from one track to another |
| sibylline | mysteriously prophetic |
| sidereal | of the stars or measured by them |
| seraph | one of the 6-winged angels standing in the presence of God |
| simper | smile in a foolish, affected way |
| sinecure | position that requires no work or responsibility, but gives the holder prestige or money |
| serried | crowded or pressed together:COMPACT |
| sinuous | having many curves and twists; winding |
| skinflint | miser |
| skulduggery | deception and planning of evil acts; trickery |
| slake | satiate |
| shopworn | stale from excessive use or familiarity |
| sledge | vehicle with long narrow strips of wood, metal, etc instead of wheels, for travelling over ice and snow |
| sinew | solid resilient strength:POWER |
| slough | swamp; marsh ; |
| sluice | sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water out of or into a canal, lake, lock, etc |
| sojourn | stay (with sb) in a place for a time |
| solecism | mistake in the use of language, esp one that shows sb to be foreign or of low social class , |
| solicitous | very concerned and anxious about (sb's welfare, comfort, etc) |
| soluble | that can be dissolved |
| solvent | having enough money to pay one's debts; not in debt |
| somnolent | almost asleep; sleepy; drowsy |
| soothsayer | fortune-teller; prophet |
| soporific | causing sleep |
| sovereign | (of power) without limit; highest |
| sovereignty | supreme and independent power of authority |
| spate | sudden fast rush, quick outpouring |
| specious | seeming right or true but actually wrong or false |
| spectral | of or like a spectre, ghostly; related to a spectrum |
| splice | join (two ends of rope) by weaving the strands of one into the strands of the other |
| spurious | not genuine or authentic; false or fake |
| squelch | make a sucking sound as when feet are lifted from thick sticky mud |
| stagnant | not flowing and therefore dirty and smelling unpleasant; still and stale |
| stalwart | stout |
| stanch | stop the flow of (esp blood) |
| statutory | fixed, done or required by statute |
| steadfast | firm and not changing or yielding; constant |
| stentorian | (of a voice) loud and powerful |
| stereotype | image,idea, character, etc that has become fixed or standardized in a conventional form without individuality |
| stint | restrict, limit sb/oneself to a small amount of (esp food) |
| stockade | line or wall of strong upright posts, built as a defence |
| stodgy | (of food) heavy, solid and difficult to digest |
| stolid | of a person) not easily excited; showing little or no emotion or interest |
| straggle | grow or spread in an irregular or untidy manner |
| stricture | severe criticism or condemnation |
| strident | loud and harsh; shrill |
| stringent | that must be obeyed; strict or severe |
| strut | rod or bar placed in a framework to strengthen and brace it |
| stultify | cause (sth) to be ineffective or seem absurd; negate |
| stygian | very dark; gloomy |
| stymie | situation on the green in which an opponent's ball is between one's own ball and the hole |
| subaltern | any officer in the army below the rank of captain |
| sublimate | express (instinctual urges, esp sexual ones) in more socially acceptable ways |
| sublime | of the greatest, most admirable kind; causing awe and reverence |
| subliminal | being perceived or affecting the mind without one being aware of it |
| suborn | use bribery or some other means to persuade (sb) to do sth illegal, esp tell lies in a court of law |
| substantive | genuine or actual; real |
| subsume | include sth in a particular group, class, etc or under a rule |
| succor | to go to the aid of:RELIEVE |
| suffuse | (esp of colour or moisture) spread all over sth |
| sultry | (of the weather, air, etc) oppressively hot and humid |
| sumptuous | looking expensive and splendid |
| sunder | sever |
| sundry | various |
| superannuated | old and barely fit for work or use |
| supercilious | thinking or showing that one thinks one is better than other people; arrogant and disdainful |
| supererogatory | superfluous |
| supernumerary | surfeit |
| supplant | supersede |
| supposititious | assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical |
| surmise | guess |
| surmount | overcome |
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