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| 1 | sedulous | (adjective satellite) marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles"
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| 2 | seethe | (verb) boil vigorously; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled" (verb) foam as if boiling; "a seething liquid" (verb) be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" (verb) be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity"
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| 3 | sequester | (verb) set apart from others; "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on" (verb) keep away from others; "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book" (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered" (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork" (verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property; "the estate was sequestered"
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| 4 | serendipity | (noun) good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
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| 5 | serrated | (adjective satellite) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex
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| 6 | servile | (adjective) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work" (adjective) pertaining to or involving slaves; "the servile wars of Sicily"
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| 7 | shady | (adjective satellite) filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands" (adjective satellite) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" (adjective satellite) of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting" (adjective satellite) of businesses and businessmen; "a fly-by-night operation"
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| 8 | shoal | (noun) a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" (noun) a stretch of shallow water (noun) a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide (verb) become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" (verb) make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
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| 9 | shoddy | (noun) reclaimed wool fiber (adjective satellite) of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses" (adjective satellite) cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
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| 10 | sinuous | (adjective satellite) curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines"
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| 11 | skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
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| 12 | skulk | (verb) move stealthily; "The lonely man skulks down the main street all day" (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
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| 13 | slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name (noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
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| 14 | sloth | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) (noun) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself
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| 15 | slothful | (adjective satellite) disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
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| 16 | slovenly | (adjective satellite) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"
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| 17 | sodden | (adjective satellite) wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes"
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| 18 | sojourn | (noun) a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) (verb) spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily
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| 19 | solace | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her" (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; "second place was no consolation to him" (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery (verb) give moral or emotional strength to
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| 20 | solemnity | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness (noun) a solemn and dignified feeling
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| 21 | solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired; "She is too shy to solicit" (verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination; "He was accused of soliciting his colleagues to destroy the documents" (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities" (verb) make amorous advances towards; "John is courting Mary"
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| 22 | soliloquy | (noun) a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections (noun) speech you make to yourself
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| 23 | solubility | (noun) the quality of being soluble (noun) the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution)
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| 24 | somber | (adjective satellite) grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" (adjective satellite) lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
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| 25 | soporific | (noun) a drug that induces sleep (adjective satellite) inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" (adjective satellite) sleep inducing
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| 26 | sordid | (adjective satellite) meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests" (adjective satellite) foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" (adjective satellite) unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" (adjective satellite) morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the
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| 27 | sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right (adjective satellite) greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal" (adjective satellite) of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"
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| 28 | specious | (adjective satellite) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" (adjective satellite) plausible but false; "a specious claim" (adjective satellite) plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
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| 29 | spelunker | (noun) a person who explores caves
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| 30 | spendthrift | (noun) someone who spends money prodigally (adjective satellite) recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
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| 31 | splenetic | (adjective satellite) very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" (adjective) of or relating to the spleen
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| 32 | sporadic | (adjective) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances; "a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids"
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| 33 | spurious | (adjective satellite) intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" (adjective satellite) born out of wedlock; "the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring"- E.A.Freeman (adjective satellite) plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
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| 34 | spurn | (verb) reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances"
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| 35 | squalid | (adjective satellite) foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" (adjective satellite) morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the
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| 36 | stagnant | (adjective satellite) not growing or changing; without force or vitality (adjective satellite) not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"
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| 37 | staid | (adjective satellite) characterized by dignity and propriety
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| 38 | stamina | (noun) enduring strength and energy
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| 39 | stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "them the tide"
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| 40 | stanza | (noun) a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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| 41 | static | (noun) angry criticism; "they will probably give you a lot of static about your editorial" (noun) a crackling or hissing noise cause by electrical interference (adjective satellite) showing little if any change; "a static population" (adjective satellite) not active or moving; "a static village community and a completely undynamic type of agriculture"; "static feudal societies" (adjective satellite) not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" (adjective) concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity; "an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity"
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| 42 | steadfast | (adjective satellite) firm and dependable especially in loyalty; "a steadfast ally"; "a staunch defender of free speech"; "unswerving devotion"; "unswerving allegiance" (adjective satellite) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"
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| 43 | stigma | (noun) a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease (noun) an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis (noun) the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
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| 44 | stigmatize | (verb) mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress" (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
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| 45 | stipend | (noun) a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose
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| 46 | stoic | (noun) a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny" (noun) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions (adjective satellite) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; "stoic courage"; "stoic patience"; "a stoical sufferer" (adjective) pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
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| 47 | stoke | (verb) stir up or tend; of a fire
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| 48 | stolid | (adjective satellite) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a
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| 49 | stridency | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
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