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 Word Meaning with Alphabet "S"
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- Sallow - Adjective - Of a sickly, yellowish color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
- Saturnine - Adjective - Sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- Scoff - Noun - An expression of mockery, derision, doubt, or derisive scorn; jeer.
- Scruple - Noun - A moral or ethical consideration or standard that acts as a restraining force or inhibits certain actions.
- Skinflint - Noun - A mean, niggardly person; miser.
- Slander - Noun - A malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
- Slander - Noun - A malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
- Sluggish - Adjective - Indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent: a sluggish disposition.
- Slur - Verb - To pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over ): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
- Sour - Noun - An acid or an acidic substance used in laundering and bleaching to neutralize alkalis and to decompose residual soap or bleach.
- Spoof - Noun - A mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
- Sporadic - Adjective - Isolated, as a single instance of something; being or occurring apart from others.
- Strut - Verb - To walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
- Stupid - Adjective - Lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- Supererogatory - Adjective - Going beyond the requirements of duty.
- Supple - Adjective - Bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible: a supple bough.
- Suppliant - Noun - A person who supplicates; petitioner.
- Supplicate - Verb - To pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.
- Support - Noun - Something that serves as a foundation, prop, brace, or stay.
- Sycophant - Noun - A self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- Sycophantic - Noun - A self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- Sympathy - Noun - Harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- Sagacious - Adjective - Having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- Sage - Noun - A profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- Salubrious - Adjective - Favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- Saying - Noun - Something said, especially a proVerb - or apothegm.
- Scold - Verb - To find fault with angrily; chide; reprimand: The teacher scolded me for being late.
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- Sedition - Noun - Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- Sententious - Adjective - Given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
- Serendipity - Noun - An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
- Seriousness - Adjective - Of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- Servile - Adjective - Slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- Shining - Adjective - Radiant; gleaming; bright.
- Shy - Adjective - Easily frightened away; timid.
- Simple - Noun - Something simple, unmixed, or uncompounded.
- Singularity - Noun - A singular, unusual, or unique quality; peculiarity.
- Situation - Noun - condition; case; plight: He is in a desperate situation.
- Skim - Verb - To take up or remove (floating matter) from the surface of a liquid, as with a spoon or ladle: to skim the cream from milk.
- Slavish - Adjective - Being or resembling a slave; abjectly submissive: He was slavish in his obedience.
- Snivel - Verb - To weep or cry with sniffling.
- Solicit - Verb - To entreat or petition (someone or some agency): to solicit the committee for funds.
- Soothe - Verb - To mitigate, assuage, or allay, as pain, sorrow, or doubt: to soothe sunburned skin.
- Spry - Adjective - Active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- Staring pointedly at Staring - Verb - To gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- Stilted - Adjective - Stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
- Stingy - Adjective - Reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
- Subservience - Adjective - Servile; excessively submissive; obsequious: subservient persons; subservient conduct.
- Succinct - Adjective - Expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- Sudden - Adjective - Happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly: a sudden attack.
- Supercilious - Adjective - Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression
- Superficial - Adjective - Being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- Superfluous - Adjective - Being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- Supernumerary - Adjective - Being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
- Support - Verb - To sustain or withstand (weight, pressure, strain, etc.) without giving way; serve as a prop for.
- Swagger - Verb - To walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
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Astute - adjective - of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
Burlesque - Noun - An artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty
material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
Cloying - Adjective - Overly ingratiating or sentimental.
Demure - Adjective - characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
Expurgate - Verb - to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
Fawning - Noun - a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
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