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sequester isolate; segregate; seclude; retire from public life sere sear; parched; dry serendipity gift for finding valuable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck; serenity calmness; placidity; serpentine winding; twisting; of or like a serpent; serrated having a sawtoothed edge; servile slavish; cringing; servitude slavery; compulsory labor imposed as a punishment sever separate; cut off (a part) from a whole; break up (a relationship); severity harshness; intensity; sternness; austerity; sextant navigation tool used to determine a ship'latitude and longitude (by measuring the altitudes of stars) shackle chain; fetter; confine with chains sham pretend; feign; ADJ: not genuine; fake; shambles (place or scene of) complete disorder or ruin; wreck; mess; shard fragment generally of broken pottery (glass, clay bowl, or cup) shaving very thin piece, usually of wood (cut from a surface with a sharp blade) plane carpenter'tool for smoothing and leveling wood; sheaf bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together sheathe place into a case; insert into or provide with a casing; sherbet flavored dessert ice shimmer shine with a flickering light; glimmer intermittently; shirk avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger shoddy made of inferior material; sham; not genuine; inferior; dishonest; shrew scolding woman; very small mouselike animal shrewd clever; astute shun keep away from; avoid deliberately; shunt move (a railway train) from one track to another; turn aside; divert; sidetrack; sidetrack switch (a railroad car) to a siding; divert from a main issue; N. shyster lawyer using questionable methods; unscrupulous practioner sibling brother or sister sibylline prophetic; oracular; sidereal relating to stars; silt sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river) simian monkeylike; N: ape or monkey simile comparison of one thing with another, using the word like or as simper smirk; smile in a silly way; smile affectedly simplistic oversimplified simulate feign; imitate sinecure well-paid position with little responsibility; sinewy (of meat) tough; strong and firm; muscular; N. sinew: tendon; strong cord connecting a muscle to a bone singular being only one; individual; unique; extraordinary; odd; sinister evil; ominous sinuous twisting; winding; bending in and out; not morally honest skeptic sceptic; doubter; person who suspends judgment until he has examined the evidence supporting a point of view; ADJ. skeptical; N. skepticism; scepticism skiff small light sailboat or rowboat skimp provide or use scantily; live very economically; skinflint miser; stingy person skirmish minor fight; minor battle in war; V. skittish inconstant; capricious; frivolous; not serious; frisk move about playfully; froric; ADJ. frisky: playful skulduggery(skullduggery) dishonest behavior or action; Ex. skulduggery in the election skulk move furtively and secretly; Ex. He skulked through the less fashionable sections of the city. slacken slow up; loosen; make or become slack slack moving slowly; sluggish; inactive; (of a rope) loose; negligent; lax; slag glassy residue from smelting metal; dross; waste matter slake satisfy (thirst); quench; sate slander defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements; slapdash hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy(carelessly done) sleazy shabby and dirty; flimsy; insubstantial; sleeper one that achieves unexpected success; something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable sleight dexterity; CF. sleight of hand: legerdemain; quickness of the hands in doing tricks slew large quantity or number; slight insult to one'dignity; snub; V: treat as if of small importance; insult; snub; ADJ. small in size; of small importance slipshod slovenly; careless; sloppy; untidy; shabby; slither slip or slide sloth slow moving tree-dwelling mammal; laziness; slough (of a snake) shed or cast off (dead outer skin); N: outer layer that is shed slovenly untidy; careless in work habits; slipshod; sledge large sled drawn by work animals sleigh large vehicle drawn by a horse over snow or ice sluggard lazy person sluggish lazy; slow; inactive; lethargic; CF. slug: nail with no shell sluice artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water (with a gate to regulate the flow) slur slander; insult to one'character or reputation; V. slur pronounce indistinctly; speak indistinctly; mumble smattering slight knowledge; small scattered number or amount; smelt melt (ore) for separating and removing the metal; melt or blend ores changing their chemical composition smirk conceited smile; offensively self-satisfied smile (often at someone else'misfortune); V. smolder smoulder; burn slowly without flame; be liable to break out at any moment; exist in a suppressed state; Ex. smoldering anger snicker half-stifled(suppressed) laugh; V. snivel complain or whine tearfully; run at the nose; snuffle; snuffle sniffle; sniff repeatedly (in order to keep liquid from running out of the nose) sobriety moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness sober serious; solemn; not drunken; abstemious or temperate; sodden thoroughly soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink sojourn temporary stay; V: stay for a time solace comfort in sorrow or trouble; consolation; V: comfort or console in time of sorrow or trouble solder repair or make whole by using a metal alloy; N: metal alloy (usually tin and lead) used in the molten state to join metallic parts solecism nonstandard grammatical construction; construction that is flagrantly incorrect grammatically; violation of social etiquette solemnity seriousness; gravity solicit entreat; request earnestly; seek to obtain; solicitous anxious; worried; concerned; eager; soliloquy talking to oneself (esp. in a play); solitude state of being alone; seclusion; ADJ. solitary: existing or living alone (esp. by choice); remote or secluded; single; sole; solstice point or time at which the sun is farthest from the equator soluble able to be dissolved in a liquid; able to be worked out or solved solvent able to pay all depths; solvent substance that dissolves another; ADJ: capable of dissolving another substance somatic pertaining to the body; bodily; physical