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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sinistral | left-handed |
| sire | forefather, to beget |
| skinflint | miser |
| slake | quench |
| slaver | drivel, fawn |
| sleight | dexterity |
| sobriquet | nickname |
| sodality | companionship |
| sodden | soaked |
| sojourn | trip |
| solecism | ungrammatical construction |
| somatic | pertaining to the body |
| somnambulist | sleepwalker |
| somnolent | sleepy |
| sop | morsel, compensation |
| soporific | sleep inducing |
| soubrette | actress, ingenue |
| souse | a drunk |
| spate | sudden outpouring |
| spectral | ghostly |
| speculate | conjecture |
| speleologist | one who studies caves |
| splenetic | peevish |
| sportive | playful |
| spume | foam |
| spurious | false, counterfeit |
| staid | demure, sedate |
| stanchion | prop |
| statue | regulation |
| stentorian | loud |
| stevedore | longshoreman |
| stole | long scarf |
| strait | distress |
| striate | to stripe |
| stricture | censure |
| sub rosa | in secret |
| sublunary | earthly |
| stultify | inhibit, enfeeble |
| succor | help, comfort |
| sundry | various |
| supercilious | arrogant |
| supererogatory | wanton, superfluous |
| superintend | supervise |
| supernumerary | subordinate |
| supervene | ensue, follow |
| supplication | prayer |
| surmise | to guess |
| sursurrant | whispering |
| swarthy | dark complexion |
| swatch | strip of fabric |
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