| sagacious | having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage |
| salacious | obscene |
| salubrious | healthful |
| salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement |
| sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety |
| sanction | approval (by authority) penalty |
| sanguine | cheerful confident optimistic |
| sanity | health of mind soundness of judgment |
| sash | long strip worn round the waist |
| satiate | satisfy fully |
| saturnine | gloomy dark sullen morose |
| savant | person of great learning |
| savor | taste flavor something |
| sawdust | tiny bits of wood |
| scabbard | sheath for the blade |
| scent | smell (especially pleasant) |
| scorch | become discolored/dry up/go at high speed |
| scribble | write hastily |
| scurvy | mean contemptible |
| secular | material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries |
| sedulous | persevering |
| seminal | like a seed constituting a source originative |
| sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs |
| sequence | succession connected line of |
| sere | make hard and without feeling |
| sermon | reproving a person for his faults |
| serrated | having a toothed edge |
| serration | having a toothed edge |
| servile | like a slave lacking independence |
| sever | break off |
| severance | severing |
| shallow | little depth not earnest |
| shard | piece of broken earthenware |
| sheath | cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool |
| shrewd | astute showing sound judgement |
| shrill | sharp piercing |
| shun | keep away from avoid |
| shunt | send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion |
| sidestep | step to one side |
| simper | (give a) silly/self-conscious smile |
| sinuous | winding undulating serpentine |
| skiff | small boat |
| skit | short piece of humorous writing |
| slack | sluggish dull not tight |
| slake | to assuage to satisfy allay |
| slate | king of blue-grey stone propose criticize |
| sluggard | lazy slow-moving person |
| slur | join sounds/words (indistinct) |
| smolder | burn slowly without flame |
| snare | trap |
| snub | treat with contempt |
| soar | rise fly high |
| sober | self-controlled |
| sobriety | quality or condition of being sober |
| sodden | soaked saturated |
| soggy | heavy with water |
| solvent | of the power of forming a solution |
| somatic | of the body |
| soot | black powder in smoke |
| sophisticated | complex subtle refined |
| sophistry | fallacious reasoning faulty logic |
| sophomoric | self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown |
| soporific | producing sleep |
| sordid | wretched comfortless contemptible |
| spear | weapon with a metal point on a long shaft |
| specious | illogical of questionable truth or merit |
| splenetic | bad-tempered irritable |
| splice | join (two ends) |
| sponge | porous rubber for washing live at once expense |
| spurious | FALSE counterfeit |
| spurn | have nothing to do reject or refuse |
| squalid | foul filthy |
| squander | spend wastefully |
| squat | crouch/settle without permission |
| stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid |
| steeply | rising or falling sharply |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
| stickler | person who insists on importance of something |
| stigma | mark of shame or disgrace |
| stigmatize | describe smb scornfully |
| sting | something sharp |
| stingy | spending using unwillingly |
| stint | to be thrifty to set limits |
| stipple | paint with dots |
| stipulate | state or put forward as a necessary condition |
| stolid | showing no emotion impassive |
| stray | wander lose one's way |
| streak | long thin move very fast |
| striated | striped grooved or banded |
| stride | walk with long steps |
| strut | a supporting bar |
| stygian | hence dark gloomy |
| stymie | to hinder obstruct or block |
| subdue | overcome bring under control |
| sublime | extreme astounding |
| submerge | put under water liquid sink out of sight |
| suborn | induce by bribery or something to commit perjury |
| subpoena | written order requiring a person to appear in a low court |
| substantiation | giving facts to support (statement) |
| subsume | include under a rule |
| succor | assistance relief in time of distress |
| suffice | be enough |
| suffocate | cause or have difficulty in breathing |
| sullied | to be stained or discredited |
| summarily | briefly without delay |
| sumptuous | magnificent |
| sundry | various miscellaneous separate |
| supercilious | disdainful characterized by haughty scorn |
| superfluous | more then is needed or wanted |
| superimpose | put something on the top |
| supersede | take the place of |
| supine | lying on the back slow to act passive |
| suppliant | asking humbly beseeching |
| supplicate | make a humble petition to |
| suppress | prevent from being known put an end to |
| surcharge | additional load/charge |
| surfeit | satiate feed to fulness or to excess |
| susceptibility | sensitiveness |
| swerve | change direction suddenly |
| sycophant | person who flatter to the rich and powerful |
| synopsis | summary or outline |
