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| sagacious | able to discern and distinguish with wise perception | |
| salacious | having strong sexual desires | |
| salient | standing out prominently (also, salience) | |
| salutary | beneficial | |
| sanctimonious | making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety | |
| sanguine | having the color of blood (sanguinary: bloody) | |
| sapid | affecting the sense of taste | |
| sapience | deep wisdom or knowledge | |
| sapient | possessing wisdom (also, sapiential) | |
| sarcophagus | a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb | |
| sardonic | scornfully or bitterly sarcastic | |
| satyr | a very lascivious person | |
| scintilla | the faintest ray | |
| scrupulous | cautious in action for fear of doing wrong | |
| scurrilous | grossly indecent or vulgar | |
| scythe | a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc. | |
| secant | cutting, especially into two parts | |
| sedate | even-tempered | |
| sedentary | involving or requiring much sitting | |
| sedulous | persevering in effort or endeavor | |
| sensuous | having a warm appreciation of beauty or of the refinements of luxury | |
| sequacious | ready to be led | |
| sequester | to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life | |
| sequestrate | to confiscate | |
| shiftless | wanting in resources, energy, or executive ability | |
| sibilant | made with a hissing sound (sibilance) | |
| sidelong | inclining or tending to one side | |
| sidereal | pertaining to stars or constellations | |
| sinecure | any position having emoluments (fees, profit, salary) with few or no duities | |
| sinuous | curving in and out | |
| skiff | usually, a small, light boat propelled by oars | |
| sociable | inclined to seek company | |
| sol | the sun | |
| solecism | any violation of established rules or customs | |
| solicitude | uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear | |
| soliloquy | a monologue | |
| somniferous | tending to produce sleep | |
| somnolence | oppressive drowsiness | |
| somnolent | sleepy | |
| sonorous | resonant | |
| sophism | a false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive | |
| sophistical | fallacious | |
| sophistry | reasoning that is sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive | |
| sordid | of degraded character or nature | |
| specious | plausible | |
| specter | apparition | |
| spinster | a woman who has never been married | |
| sprightly | animated, vivacious, lively | |
| spurious | not genuine | |
| squalid | having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance | |
| stagy | having a theatrical manner | |
| staid | of a steady and sober character | |
| statuesque | having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue | |
| stiletto | a small dagger | |
| stolid | expressing no power of feeling or perceiving | |
| stultify | to give an appearance of foolishness to | |
| subacid | somewhat sharp or biting | |
| subliminal | being beneath the threshold of consciousness | |
| subsist | to be maintained or sustained | |
| subterfuge | evasion | |
| subtrahend | that which is to be subtracted | |
| suffuse | to cover or fill the surface of | |
| sumptuous | rich and costly | |
| superannuate | to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service | |
| supercilious | exhibiting haughty and careless contempt | |
| superfluity | that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed | |
| supine | lying on the back | |
| surfeit | to feed to fullness or to satiety | |
| surreptitious | clandestine | |
| swarthy | having a dark hue, especially or sunburned perplexion | |
| sybarite | a luxurious person | |
| sycophant | a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence | |
| sylph | a slender, graceful young woman or girl | |
| syndicate | an association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise |
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