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Vocab 25


1.       Salubrious: Describes a place that is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in.
He doesn’t live in a very salubrious place.

2.       Sanctuary: A place where birds or animals can live and be protected, especially from hunters or dangerous conditions.
A wildlife sanctuary

3.       Saucy: Rude and showing no respect
She was a saucy child who spoke rudely to her grandmother.

4.       Scintilla: A tiny amount, the slightest of something.
Despite repeated inquiries, the inspector could not get a scintilla of evidence about the murder.

5.       Scrupulous: Extremely honest, or doing everything correctly and exactly as it should be done.
S: Punctilious
A: Remiss

6.       Sententious: Trying to appear sagacious, clever and important
The document was sententious.

7.       Shiftless: Lazy and not having much determination or a clear purpose
A compact group of diligent students is any day better than a large group of shiftless ones.

8.       Simulate: To do or make something which looks real but is not real
Some driving teachers use computers to simulate (= represent) different road conditions for learners to practice on.

9.       Sire: A male parent of an animal, especially a horse

10.   Skinflint: A person who is unwilling to spend money.
He is a real skinflint.
S: Miser

11.   Sobriquet: A name given to someone or something which is not their real or official name; nickname
My friend’s sobriquet is Master.

12.   Sluggard: A lazy person
A sluggard person never achieves its goal.

13.   Solitude: The situation of being alone without other people
A life of solitude.
S: Loneliness

14.   Soporific: Causing sleep or making a person want to sleep
Grandmothers narrate soporific stories to put children to sleep.

15.   Stationary: Not moving or not changing
The traffic got slower and slower until it was stationary.

Compiled By: Chaudhary Amit V.
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