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70 Cards in this Set
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having sound judgment, perceptive, wise
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Sagacious (adj)
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Like a sage or person recongnized as having great wisdsom
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Sagacious
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Appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy
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Salacious (adj)
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Prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
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Salient (adj)
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Promoting health or well-being
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Salubrious (adj)
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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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Salutary (adj)
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Self-righteousness, pretended piety
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Sanctimony (n)
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Hypocritically pretending to be pious or being excessively pious
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Sanctimonious
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Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
------------------------ to encourage or approve recently can be used to mean "to punish) |
Sanction (n)
-------------------- Sanction (v) |
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Cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Sanguine (adj)
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To enervate or weaken the vitality of - or -
to hit someone w/ a sap =================== a gullable person or a blackjack(shor leather covered club) |
Sap (v)
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To overindulge, satisry to excess
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Satiate (v)
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A literary work that ridicules or criticezes human vice through humor or derision
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Satire (n)
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Gloomy, dark, sulle, morose
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Saturnine (adj)
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Contemptible, descpicable
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scurvy (adj)
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A large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish
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Seine (n)
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Withered, arid
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Sere (adj)
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Like a seed, constituting a source, originative
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Seminal (adj)
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A piece of broken pottery or glass, any small piece or part
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Shard (n)
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To smirk, to say something with a silly, coy smile
------------------------ the smile itself |
Simper (v)
------------ simper (n) |
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Position requiring little or no work an dusually providing an income
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Sinecure (n)
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Exceptinal, unusual, odd
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Singular (adj)
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Winding, curving, moving lithely, devious
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Sinuous (adj)
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To satisfy, quench, lessen the intensity of
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Slake (v)
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Soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull
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Sodden (adj)
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To weld, fuse or join, as with a soldering gun
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Solder (v)
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Concerned and attentive, eager
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Solicitous (adj)
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Able to meet financial obligations
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Solvent (adj)
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Fallacious resoning; plausible but faulty logic
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Sophistry (n)
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Exhibiting immaturity, lack or judgment, pretentious
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Sophomoric (adj)
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Causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep
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Soporific (adj)
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Characterized by filth, grime or squalor, foul
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Sordid (adj)
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Thin, not dense, arranged at widely spaced intervals
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Sparse (adj)
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Seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive
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Specious (adj)
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One who spends money wastefully
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Spendthrift (n)
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Bad-tempered, irritable
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Splenetic (adj)
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Occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
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Sporadic (adj)
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Lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit
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Spurious (adj)
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Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect
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Squalid (adj)
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Wretched or filthy conditions
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Squalor (n)
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To wate by spending or using irresponsibly
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Squander (v)
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To stop the flow of a fluid
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Stanch (v)
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Not moving, active or in motion; at rest
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Static (v)
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To saturate or completely soak
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Steep (v)
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Extremely loud and powerful
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Stentorian (adj)
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To restrain, be sparing or frugal
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Stint (v)
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restraining and bestowed liberally, respectively
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Stinting (adj)
Unstinting (opposite) |
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Length of time spent in a specific way
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Stint (n)
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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast
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Stoic (adj)
Stoicism (n) |
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Striped, grooved, or banded
----------------------- the bands themselves |
Striated (adj)
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A structural support used to brace a framework
--------------------- To brace or support |
Strut (n)
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To stun, baffle, or amaze
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Stupefy (v)
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Gloomy, dark
--------------- means or or relating to the river Styx |
Stygian (adj)
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To block, thwart
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Stymie (v)
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A court order requiring appearane and/or testimony
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Subpoena (n)
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Not obvious, elusive, difficult to discern crafty or sly
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Subtle (adj)
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Brief, concise
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Succinct (adj)
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Assistance, relief in a time of distress
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Succor (n)
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Various, miscellaneous, separate
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Sundry (adj)
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Disdainful, arrogant, haughty, characterized by haughty scorn
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Supercilious (adj)
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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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Superfluous (adj)
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Inactive, lying on one's back, apathetic, mentally or morally slack
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Supine (adj)
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Lying face up
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Supine
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Lying face down
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Prone
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To take the place of, supersede
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Supplant (v)
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Asking humbly, beseeching
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Suppliant (adj)
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Beggar, one who prays or begs for something
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Supplicant (N)
supplicating (v) ---------------- Suppliant (n) |
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To feed or supply in excess
-------------------------- excess, overindulgence |
Surefeit (v)
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Someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain, parasite
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Sycophant (n)
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The combination or parts to make a whole
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Synthesis (n)
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