VocabularyCentral.com - vocabulary words
rubric, n.
a heading, title, or category
salient, adj.
conspicuous, prominent, highly relevant
sanguine, adj.
cheerful, confident, optimistic
saturnine, adj.
gloomy, morose
saucy, adj.
impudent, rude
savant, n.
a knowledgeable or learned person
sedulous, adj.
assiduous, diligent, persevering
seminal, adj.
like seed, constituting a source, originative
sententious, adj.
short and pithy, often full of maxims and proverbs, trite
shard, n.
a piece or fragment of an earthen vessel or of any brittle substance
sinuous, adj.
winding, serpentine, undulating
slake, v.
to assuage, to satisfy, to allay
sloth, n.
habitual indolence or laziness
sophomoric, adj.
self-assured although immature, affected, bombastic
soporific, adj.
tending to cause sleep, characterized by sleepiness
spate, n.
an unusually large outpouring
specious, adj.
simulating, resembling or apparently corresponding with right or truth
splenetic, adj.
bad-tempered, irritable
sporadic, adj.
happening from time to time, not constant or regular, occasional
spurious, adj.
counterfeit, fraudulent
squalid, adj.
foul, filthy, extremely dirty
staid, adj.
sober, sedate, steady
stentorian, adj.
extremely loud or powerful
stigma, n.
a mark of disgrace or reproach, a mark or sign indicating that something is not normal
stymie, v.
to hinder or obstruct, to check or blot
sunder, v.
to part, to separate, to break apart
sundry, adj.
various, miscellaneous, separate
surreptitious, adj.
secretive, cladestine