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saccharine |
Excessively sweet or sentimental |
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sacrilegious |
Irreverent towards those considered sacred or holy |
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salient |
Prominent; of pronounced significance |
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sanctimonious |
Hypocritically moral or devout |
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satiate |
To satisfy a need or desire to the fullest or to excess |
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saturnine |
Cold and steady mood; gloomy; slow to react |
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savant |
A person of learning; esp. one with extreme knowledge in a certain field |
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seamy |
Unpleasant; low in moral standards |
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secular |
Not relating to religion; pertaining to the general world |
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sedition |
Behavior that promotes open rebellion or disorder against the authority |
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seminal |
Influential in an original, creative way; providing a path for further developments |
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sequester |
To set apart, seclude; separate |
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seragraphic |
Sweet; angelic |
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simian |
Apelike; pertaining to apes |
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sinecure |
A well-paying job or office that requires little or no work |
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sobriquet |
A nickname or alias |
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sojourn |
A temporary stay or visit |
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solicitous |
Anxious or concerned; full of desire; eager |
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sophomoric |
Displaying extreme immaturity and lack of judgement or common sense |
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spartan |
Highly self-disciplined |
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specious |
Having the effect of truth but actually being false; deceptively attractive or desirable |
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sportive |
Playful; frolicsome; pertaining to sports |
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squalid |
Filthy and diminished due to neglect or poverty |
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stalwart |
Marked by outstanding strength and endurance or body, mind, or soul |
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stasis |
A state of equilibrium or inactivity |
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stint |
To be sparing; to restrict in compliance to a share or allowance |
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stipulate |
To specify as a condition or obligation of an agreement or offer |
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stratify |
To arrange or divide into separate layers |
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strident |
Loud, harsh; unpleasantly noisy |
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stymie |
To block or thwart; to stump |
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subterranean |
Hidden; secret; underground |
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sully |
To taint or pollute; to tarnish |
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superfluous |
Extra; excess; more than required |
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supersede |
To cause to be set aside; to force out of use as inferior, to replace |
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supplant |
To replace by force; to take the place of |
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surmount |
To conquer or overcome |
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sybarite |
A person dedicated to pleasure and luxury |
