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Vocab 26


1.       Spartan: Simple and severe with no comfort
A Spartan diet/meal.

2.       Sterling: Excellent
The sterling performance of the sitar maestro has been acclaimed widely.

3.       Stevedore: A person employed for loading and unloading ships.
In Alang, you will find many stevedores.
S: Docker

4.       Stoical: Determined not to complain or show your feelings, especially when something bad happens to you.
The person who has stoical nature, never express angriness.

5.       Stupendous: Very surprising
P.T Usha’s victory in the Olympics would have been a stupendous achievement.
S: Amazing
A: Miniscule

6.       Subrosa: Secretly, Privately
The cabal met subrosa in the basement.

7.       Surfeit: An amount which is too large, or is more than is needed.
The child has surfeit of crackers for Diwali.

8.       Surmise: To guess
I surmised that she had been talking about me.

9.       Surrogate mother: A woman who has a baby for another mother who is unable to become pregnant or have a baby herself.
She has agreed to act as a surrogate mother for her sister.

10.   Sybarite: A person who loves expensive things and pleasure.

11.   Taciturn: Almost always silent, Not liking to talk.
If you want to make career in selling, you will have to change your taciturn ways.

12.   Taxidermy: The activity of cleaning, preserving and filling the skins of dead animals with special material to make them look as if they are still alive.

13.   Tedious: Boring
A tedious job.

14.   Termagant: A woman who argues noisily to get or achieve what she wants.

15.   Titanic: Extremely powerful, strong, important or large.
Titanic mountains.


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