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- 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
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