shiftless, a. improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, wasteful.

Antonyms: thrifty, industrious.

shilly-shally, adv. irresolutely, hesitatingly.

shilly-shally, n. hesitation, irresolution, indecision, vacillation,

wavering, trifling, evasion, dalliance.

shilly-shally, v. hesitate, waver, trifle, dally, vacillate, dodge,

be irresolute.

shin, n. shank.

shindy, n. (Slang) uproar, disturbance, riot, row; hockey; liking,

fancy.

shine, v. beam, radiate, gleam, irradiate, glisten, glow, glitter,

flare, glare; excel, surpass; polish.

shine, n. luster, polish, gloss, sheen, radiance, resplendence,

brilliancy, lucency, glaze.

shine, n. (Slang) liking, fancy; caper, antic, dido.

shining, a. radiant, beaming, lustrous, luminous, glowing, brilliant,

lucent, bright, sleek, glazed, glistening, splendent, resplendent, glossy,

shiny; conspicuous, noticeable.

shining between. interlucent.

shining round. circumfulgent.

ship, n. vessel. Associated Words: barratry, hypothecate,

hypothecation.

ship, v. transport; deport; (Colloq.) dismiss, send away.

shipbuilder, n. shipwright.

shipment, n. shipping, transportation; consignment.

ship mortgage. bottomry, hypothecation.

shipping, n. shipment, transportation; navigation.

shipwreck, n. wreckage; disaster, destruction, ruin, subversion,

miscarriage. Associated Words: salvage, flotsam, jetsam, derelict,

jettison.

shipwrecked person. castaway.

shirk, v. avoid, evade, neglect.

shirt, n. smock, chemise, shift, tunic, camise.

shiver, n. splinter, sliver; shivering, tremor, horripilation.

shoal, n. shallow, sandbank, bar.--a. shallow.

shock, v. dismay, horrify, appall, terrify, frighten; stook; astound,

stun, paralyze, scandalize, outrage, offend.

shock, n. impact, blow, collision, concussion, onset, brunt, clash,

percussion; stroke, blow; stook, hattock.

shocking, a. scandalous, appalling, offensive, outrageous, heinous,

dire.

shod, p.p. and a. calced, calceated.

shoddy, a. (Colloq.) sham, spurious, mock.

shoddy, n. rag wool, mungo.

shoe, n. boot, balmoral, Goodyear welt, clog, sock, buskin, sandal,

slipper, creedmore, Creole, stogy, chopine, brogan, blucher, bottine,

moccasin, oxford, sabot, pump, cracowes, poulaine, racket.

shoemaker, n. crispin, cordwainer (Archaic).

shoe mender. cobbler.

shoe mending. cobbling.

shoestring, n. shoelace, latchet.

shoot, n. chute, shute, flume, channel.

shoot, n. tiller, sucker, sprout, offshoot, chit, twig, scion.

shoot, v. discharge, fire; eject, hurl, emit, ejaculate; protrude,

project, extend, jut; germinate, sprout; penetrate, dart; fusillade;

tiller.

shooting, a. darting, piercing.

shop, n. workshop, factory; store; warehouse; atelier, studio.

shore, n. beach, coast, strand, marge. Associated Words: littoral,

circumlittoral, limicoline, shingle, beached.

shore, v. prop, brace, buttress, support, stay.

shorn, a. sheared, clipped; divested, deprived, fleeced.

short, a. brief, contracted, terse, concise, condensed, sententious,

laconic, succinct, summary, epigrammatic, pithy; limited, inadequate,

insufficient, deficient, scanty; abrupt, curt, uncivil; lacking, shy,

unsupplied; crisp, friable, brittle. Antonyms: diffuse, prolix, long.

shortage, n. deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, deficit, ullage.

Antonyms: See surplus.

short-billed, a. brevirostral, brevirostrate.

shortcoming, n. defect, imperfection, fault, foible, failure.

shorten, v. abridge, abbreviate, curtail, reduce, epitomize,

contract, retrench, condense, diminish; limit, restrict, restrain,

confine, circumscribe; dock, lop.

shortening, n. abbreviation, abridgment, contraction, curtailment,

reduction, retrenchment.

shorthand, n. phonography, stenography.

short-headed, a. brachycephalous.

short-legged, a. breviped.

short-lived, a. ephemeral, mushroom, transitory.

shortness, n. brevity, briefness, conciseness, laconism, inadequacy,

deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, deficit.

short-sighted, a. myopic, near-sighted; unwise, impudent, indiscreet.

short-sightedness, n. myopia, near-sightedness; unwisdom, imprudence,

indiscretion.

short-sighted person. myope.

short-winged, a. brevipennate.

shot, n. discharge; projectile, bullet, ball; marksman; range, reach.

shoulder, n. Associated Words: epaulet, shrug, espauliere,

scapular, scapulary, baldric, infrascapular, omagra.

shoulder, v. jostle, push; assume, bear.

shoulder blade. scapula, omoplate.

shout, n. vociferation, halloo, outcry, call, hoot, clamor,

acclamation.

shout, v. vociferate, yell, halloo, call, clamor, acclaim.

show, n. exposure, exhibition, exposition, demonstration,

representation; display, spectacle, ostentation, parade, pomp, flourish,

splurge, pageantry, splendor: appearance, semblance; pretense, puppetry,

speciousness, simulation.

show, v. exhibit, present, display, uncover, reveal, disclose,

manifest, divulge, evince, proclaim; direct, guide, usher, conduct;

demonstrate, explain, expound, exemplify; indicate, signify.

showing, n. demonstration, exhibition, presentation, revelation,

disclosure, exposition, manifestation; direction, guidance, ushering;

explanation, expounding, illustration, interpretation, indication,

exemplification. Associated Words: ostensive, ostensible, exhibiting,

expository.

showy, a. spectacular, pageant, ostentatious, pompous; garish,

gaudy, meretricious, gorgeous, flashy, bedizened, gay, conspicuous,

tinsel. Antonyms: inconspicuous, modest, unostentatious, quiet, subdued.

shred, n. fragment, tatter, rag, strip, frazzle.

shrew, n. scold, brawler, termagant, vixen, virago, Xantippe.

shrewd, a. astute, sharp; cunning, crafty, wily, artful, long-headed.

shrewdness, n. acumen, astuteness, sharpness, long-headedness.

shrewish, a. vixenish, termagant, brawling, clamorous.

shriek, n. screech, yell, scream.

shrill, a. piercing, acute, strident.

shrink, v. contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle; flinch, recoil,

blench, wince, winch.

shrinkage, n. contraction; (Colloq.) depreciation.

shrinking, a. coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring.

shroud, n. winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements.

shroud, v. mask, screen, cloak, conceal.

shrub, n. bush; pl. shrubbery, thicket, boscage, bosket.

shuck, n. shell, husk, pod, shale.--v. shell, enucleate.

shudder, n. tremor.--v. tremble, shake, shiver, quake.

shuffle, v. jumble, intermix; equivocate, prevaricate, quibble,

shift; shamble.

shuffle, n. artifice, evasion, prevarication, trick, sophism, ruse.

shun, v. avoid, elude, evade, eschew.

shut, v. close; debar, exclude, preclude; (shut up) confine,

imprison, coop up, incarcerate, immure.

shy, a. timid, coy, backward, retiring, diffident, wary, cautious;

(Slang) short, lacking.

shyness, n. diffidence, coyness, timidity, bashfulness.

shyster, n. (Slang) knave, impostor, rogue, cheat.

sick, a. ill, unwell, ailing, indisposed, diseased, morbid;

nauseated, queasy, squeamish, qualmish; disgusted, surfeited, weary,

palled, satiated.

sick, v. sick on, incite, urge.

sicken, v. nauseate, disgust, pall, surfeit, decay, languish.

sickening, a. nauseating, disgusting, fulsome, nauseous, revolting.

sickle-shaped, a. falcate, falcated.

sickly, a. invalid, unwell, unhealthy, ailing; unwholesome; pale,

languid, haggard, puny, peaked.

sickness, n. illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder,

distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease. Associated

words: morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture,

convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic.

sickness of stomach. nausea, qualm, qualmishness.

side, n. flank; faction, sect, party. Associated Words: lateral,

laterality, laterally, collateral, bilateral, equilateral, quadrilateral,

longilateral, lopsided, multilateral, perimeter, ambidexter, ambidextrous,

ambidexterity.

side, a. lateral, collateral, incidental.

side by side. in apposition. Associated Words: apposition,

juxtaposition, juxtapose, juxtaposit.

side dish. entrée, entremets.

sidehill, n. descent, declivity, decline, slope.

sidelong, a. lateral, oblique.

sidesman, n. partisan.

sidetrack, v. shunt; (Colloq.) switch off, divert.

sideways, adv., sidewise, askance, obliquely, laterally.

sidewise, adv., sideways, askance.

siding, n. sidetrack, turnout; clapboards, weatherboarding.

siege, n. investment, blockade, besiegement. Associated Words:

obsidional, besiege, beleaguer, obsess, obsession, beset.

Siena marble. brocatel.

sieve, n. strainer, sifter, bolt, bolter, riddle, tammis, tammy.

sievelike, a. cribrate, cribrose, cribriform.

sift, v. bolt, cribble, riddle; investigate.

sifting, n. bolting; (Pharm.) cribration; investigation.

sigh, n. suspiration.--v. suspire.

sight, n. vision; seeing, view, perception; visibility; spectacle,

phenomenon, panorama, vista, gapeseed, cynosure; (Colloq.) great number,

many, multitude, great quantity. Associated Words: optics, optical,

optic, ocular, optician, caligo, astigmatism, perimeter, perimetry,

amaurosis, visual, visualize, apparition.

sightly, a. comely, attractive, handsome.

sign, n. omen, auspice, portent, prodigy, prognostic, augury,

foretoken, presage; mark, token, indication, symptom, index, emblem,

symbol; trace, vestige, ensign, signal, beacon; gesture, motion;

signature. Associated Words: ominous, portentous, augurial, semeiology,

semeiological, sematology, semiotic, semeiography.

sign, v. signify, mark, indicate, betoken; subscribe.

signal, n. sign, ensign, beacon. Associated Word: pharology.

signal, a. memorable, remarkable, noticeable, notable.

signature, n. autograph, sign-manual. Associated Word: signatory.

signer, n. subscriber, signatory.

significance, n. meaning, import; consequence, importance, force.

significant, a. momentous, important; indicative, significative.

Antonyms: insignificant, unimportant, meaningless.

signification, n. meaning, import, acceptation, sense.

signify, v. indicate, betoken, denote; mean; matter.

silence, n. stillness, quietness; taciturnity, muteness, reserve;

secrecy.

silence, v. still, hush, quiet, suppress, lull, quell, appease.

silent, a. still, quiet, noiseless, inaudible; taciturn, reserved,

mute; quiescent.

silkworms, n. pl. Associated Words: sericulture, mulberry, cocoon,

filature, cocoonery, bombic, bombyx, filator, muscardine.

silky, a. sericeous, silken.

sill, n. threshold; window sill.

silliness, n. folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity,

inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude.

silly, a. witless, foolish, simple, fatuous, imbecile, half-witted;

stupid, unwise, inept, absurd, inane, nonsensical, senseless, puerile.

silver, n. _argentum_; bullion (uncoined silver). Associated

words: filigree, platinum, desilverize, desilverization, patio, vermeil,

fulguration, silversmith.

silvery, a. silver, argent, argentine, argentous, argentiferous.

similar, a. like, corresponding, resembling, homogeneous, analogous.

similarity, n. analogy, homogeneity, likeness, similitude,

correspondence.

simile, n. comparison, metaphor.

simoon, n. desert wind, khamsin, samiel.

simper, n. smirk.

simple, a. incomplex, uncompounded, single, elementary, uncombined,

mere; plain, unaffected, artless, naïve, unsophisticated; credulous,

gullible, silly, oafish. Antonyms: complex, complicated, intricate,

artful, crafty, elaborate.

simpleton, n. dolt, dunce, numskull, lackbrain, oaf, witling, fool.

simulate, v. pretend, feign.

simulation, n. pretense, feint, feigning, affectation.

simultaneous, a. contemporaneous, synchronal, synchronous.

sin, n. iniquity, transgression, wickedness, delinquency,

peccadillo, offense, peccancy, unrighteousness. Associated Words:

ponerology, hamartiology, peccable, peccability, peccant, _peccavi_,

impeccable, impeccability.

sin, v. do wrong, trespass, transgress.

sincere, a. heartfelt, genuine, unfeigned, undissembling. Antonyms:

See insincere.

sincerity, n. honesty, unaffectedness, frankness. Antonyms:

insincerity, dissimulation.

sinew, n. tendon; muscle, thew.

sinful, a. iniquitous, wrong, immoral, wicked, depraved, vicious,

unrighteous.

sinfulness, n. iniquity, immorality, depravity, wickedness.

sing, v. carol, warble, chant, hymn, hum, troll, yodel, croon.

singe, v. sweal, swale, scorch.

singer, n. vocalist, songster, songstress, minstrel, chanter,

cantatrice, cantor, prima donna, precentor, bard, troubadour, jongleur,

musician.

single, a. individual, alone, particular, isolated, sporadic,

solitary; unmarried, celibate; simple, unmixed; honest, sincere,

ingenuous, frank.

single, v. single out, choose, select, separate, isolate, segregate.

single-hearted, a. sincere, honest, guileless.

single-minded, a. artless, undesigning, guileless.

singsong, n. monotone.--a. monotonous, drawling.

singular, a. unusual, unconventional, uncommon, strange, peculiar,

unwonted, rare, extraordinary, exceptional, odd, whimsical, eccentric,

bizarre, queer, unique, unprecedented, unexampled, curious.

singularity, n. peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, individuality; curiosity,

freak, abnormality, rarity, abnormity, queerness, eccentricity.

sinister, a. left; unlucky, inauspicious, evil, wrong, forbidding.

sink, v. subside, descend, decline, fall; immerse, submerge, engulf,

merge.

sinker, n. plummet.

sinking, n. subsidence, fall, decrease, decline.

sinless, a. innocent, guiltless, undefiled, perfect, blameless,

faultless.

sinner, n. wrong-doer, delinquent, miscreant, trespasser. See

wrong-doer.

siren, a. bewitching, fascinating, enticing.

sister, n. Associated Words: sororicide, sororize, sorosis,

sororal.

site, n. location.

sitting, n. Associated Words: sedentary, assession, astasia.

situation, n. position, place, post, employment, job, location, site,

station, position; circumstance, condition, plight, predicament, exigency.

sitz bath. hip bath.

six, n. Associated Words: sexenary, hexaplar, sextant, sextuple,

sextet, sestet, sextic, senary.

six-cornered, a. hexangular, hexagonal.

six days. hexahemeron.

six fingers or toes. Associated Words: sexidigitism,

sexidigitist.

sixfold, a. sextuple.

six-footed, a. hexapod.

six months. semester. Associated Words: half-yearly, semi-annual,

bi-annual, semestral.

six-sided, a. cubic, hexahedral, hexagonal.

six-sided body. cube, hexahedron.

six-sided figure. hexagon.

sixty, n. Associated Words: sexagenary, sexagesimal.

sixty years. Associated Words: sexagenarian, sexagenary.

six years. Associated Words: sexennial, sexennially.

size, n. magnitude, volume, dimensions, amplitude, bulk, extent,

bigness.

skedaddle, v. (Slang) run away, flee, decamp, scuttle, scamper,

scurry.

skeptic, n. unbeliever, infidel.

skeptical, a. doubtful, disbelieving, incredulous. Antonym:

credulous.

skepticism, n. doubt, incredulity, infidelity; Pyrrhonism. Antonym:

credulity.

sketch, n. draught, outline, plan, drawing, design, scenario,

esquisse.

sketch, v. draught, portray, draw, depict, delineate.

skid, n. drag, clog, skidpan.

skill, n. adroitness, ingenuity, cleverness, technic, dexterity,

proficiency, expertness, facility, deftness, knack. Antonyms:

maladroitness, empiricism, quackery, inexpertness, clumsiness.

skillful, a. skilled, expert, adroit, dexterous, adept, masterly,

proficient, deft, able, efficient, competent, accomplished. Antonyms:

unskillful, empirical, maladroit.

skimp, v. (Colloq.) scamp, slight, scrimp, save.

skimpy, a. (Colloq.) scant, skimp.

skin, n. integument, tegument, derm; epidermis, cuticle, scarfskin;

true skin, dermis, derma, cutis; membrane, epithelium, ecteron, enderon,

ecderon; pelt, pell, pelage, peltry; hide, kip; husk, hull, glume; (of

fruit) peel, peeling, rind, paring, epicarp; pellicle, film; episperm,

testa, tegmen; slough, exuviae (cast-off-skin); parchment, vellum.

Antonyms: pulp, flesh. Associated Words: dermatology, dermatologist,

dermic, dermatic, dermal, cutaneous, dermatitis, dermatography, dermatoid,

smegma, caul, dermatopathic, dermoplastic, dermoplasty, hypodermic,

subcutaneous, dermatopathy, exuviate, exuviation, desquamate,

desquamation, slough, dermatophyte, dermostosis, cuticular, epidermal,

apellous, abrasion, emphractic, excoriation.

skin, v. flay, excoriate; pare, peel; (Slang) cheat, defraud,

fleece.

skin-deep, a. superficial.

skinflint, n. miser, niggard, curmudgeon, scrimp, screw.

skinny, a. emaciated, gaunt, rawboned, poor.

skip, v. omit, pass, disregard; caper, gambol, jump, leap; ricochet.

skip, n. omission; gambol, caper, hop, leap; ricochet.

skipper, n. sea-captain; cheese maggot.

skirt, n. petticoat (underskirt); kilt; fustanella; kirtle; margin,

border, edge, rim.

skirt opening. placket.

skit, n. reflection, jeer, gibe, satire, squib.

skittish, a. timorous, shy; volatile, restless, wanton.

skulk, v. sneak, slink, lurk.

skull, n. cranium; death's-head. Associated Words: cranial,

acrania, acranial, craniology, phrenology, trepan, trephine, fontanel,

sphenoid, cephalism, parietes, parietal, crossbones, occiput, frontal,

sinciput.

skullcap, a. calotte.

sky, n. firmament, welkin, empyrean, azure, the heavens. Associated

words: meridian, zenith, nadir, horizon, uranology, uranography, zodiac.

sky-blue, a. azure, cerulean.

skyey, a. ethereal.

slack, a. lax, loose, relaxed; remiss, negligent, careless,

shiftless; inactive, slow.

slacken, v. moderate, retard, slack, reduce; loosen, relax; diminish,

abate, mitigate; slake; relax, flag.

slackness, n. looseness, laxity, negligence, remissness,

carelessness, shiftlessness; relaxation, diminution.

slag, n. scoria, cinders, recrement, dross, refuse.

slake, v. quench; slack; abate, decrease, allay.

slam-bang, adv. (Collog.) violently, forcibly, noisily, loudly.

slander, v. malign, defame, traduce, asperse, vilify, calumniate,

backbite, scandalize, libel.

slander, n. defamation, calumny, aspersion, libel, vilification,

scandal, abuse, traducement, backbiting, roorback, vituperation.

slanderous, a. defamatory, malicious, vituperative, calumnious,

libellous.

slant, n. slope, incline, inclination, obliquity.--v. slope,

incline.

slanting, a. sloping, oblique, slant.--n. obliquity,

inclination, tilt.

slap, n. cuff, buffet.--v. box, cuff, buffet.

slap, adv. (Colloq.) suddenly, violently, unceremoniously,

instantly.

slap-dash, adv. (Colloq.) carelessly, at random, all at once.

slash, n. incision, gash, cut, slit.

slate, n. argillite, argillaceous schist; grapholite.--v.

enroll, register.

slated, a. registered, enrolled (for an appointment).

slattern, n. draggle-tail, drab, trollop, niopsy, malkin,

drabble-tail.

slatternly, a. slattern, untidy, draggle-tailed.

slaughter, n. butchery. See killing.

slaughter-house, n. abattoir, shambles.

slave, n. vassal, bond servant, bondslave, bondman, thrall, serf,

captive, helot; drudge. Associated Words: abolitionism, abolitionist,

blackbird, maroon.

slave, v. drudge, toil, moil.

slavery, n. bondage, enslavement, servitude, inthrallment, captivity,

bond service, vassalage, thralldom, subjection, helotism; drudgery.

slave warehouse. barracoon.

slavish, a. servile, menial, abject, groveling.

sleazy, a. flimsy, thin, gauzy.

sled, n. sleigh, sledge, toboggan.

sleek, a. smooth, glossy.

sleek, adv. (Low) easily, dexterously.

sleep, v. slumber, repose; doze, drowse; lie dormant; hibernate;

lodge.

sleep, n. slumber, repose; nap, doze, drowse, snooze, dozing; siesta;

dormancy, lethargy; trance; sopor, coma, carus; somnipathy, somnolism;

dogsleep. Associated Words: hypnology, hypnotic, agrypnotic, hypnosis,

hypnotism, narcotic, opiate, dwale, somniloquence, somniloquism, somnial,

somniferous, hypnophobia, hypnogogic, stupefacient, mesmeric, soporific,

dormitive, soporiferous, soporous, somnific, somnolent, somniloquous,

antihypnotic, morphean, oversleep, morphine, narcosis, lullaby,

incubation, hypnogenic, Mara, Morpheus, Hypnos, Somnus, dormitory,

diurnation, cubicle, insomniac, hibernation, somnipathist, somniloquist,

agrypnia, wake, awaken.

sleeper, n. slumberer; drone, sluggard; tie; joist.

sleepiness, n. drowsiness, somnolence.

sleeping, a. asleep, slumbering, dormant.

sleepless, a. wakeful, insomnious, insomnolent.

sleeplessness, n. wakefulness, insomnia, insomnolence.

sleep of plants. nyctitropism. Associated Word: nyctitropic.

sleepwalker, n. somnambulist, noctambulist, somnambulator,

somnambule.

sleepwalking, n. somnambulism, somnambulation, somnambulance,

noctambulism, noctambulation. Associated Words: somnambulate,

somnambulistic, somnambular, somnambulic.

sleepy, a. drowsy, somnolent, dozy; soporiferous, somniferous,

soporific, dormitive, narcotic, somnific, hypnotic; dormant, sluggish,

lethargic, torpid, dull.

sleeve, n. Associated Word: chevron.

sleigh, n. cutter, sled, sledge, bobsled, toboggan, jumper, pung.

sleight of hand. prestidigitation, jugglery, legerdemain, magic,

conjury. Associated Words: prestidigitator, juggler, conjurer, magician,

legerdemamist.

slender, a. slim, slight, thin, spare, lank, spindling; delicate,

feeble, fragile, frail, tenuous; trivial, inconsiderable; abstemious,

frugal, spare, plain.

slice, n. chop, collop; rasher, flitch.

slick, a. sleek, sleeky, smooth.

slide, n. slip; flume, shoot, chute.

slide, v. slip, glide, lapse, elapse, skid.

slight, a. inconsiderable, trivial, insignificant, trifling, petty,

paltry; desultory, cursory, superficial, indifferent.

slight, n. neglect, inattention, disregard, snub.

slight, v. overlook, neglect, disregard, ignore.

slightly, adv. somewhat; superficially, cursorily, hastily.

slim, a. thin, gaunt, poor, lank, spare, spindling, meager; slight,

insufficient, inconsiderable, paltry.

slime, n. mud, mire, ooze, liman.

slimsy, a. (Colloq.) flimsy, frail, poor.

slip, v. slide, glide; err, trip; omit, lose; foist; elapse.

slip, n. lapse, error, indiscretion, transgression, peccadillo,

mistake; twig, cutting, scion, shoot; escape, riddance, desertion;

wrapper, covering.

slipper, n. slipshoe; (Oriental) baboosh, babouche.

slipperiness, n. smoothness, glibness, lubricity.

slippery, a. smooth, glib; inconstant, unstable; loose, incontinent,

lubric.

slipshod, a. slovenly, careless, negligent.

slit, n. gash, incision.

sliver, n. splinter.

slobber, v. drivel, drool, slabber, slaver; smear, daub, defile.

slogan, n. war cry, rallying cry.

slope, v. slant, incline.

slope, n. inclination, slant, obliquity, acclivity; declivity.

sloping, a. oblique, slanting; acclivous; declivous.

slosh, n. slush, sludge.

sloth, n. sluggishness, indolence, laziness.

slothful, a. dronish, lazy, indolent, supine, sluggish, idle,

inactive.

slouchy, a. slouching, ungainly, awkward.

slough, n. quagmire, bog, morass; swale; exuviae.

sloughing, n. ecdysis, exuviation.

slovenly, a. untidy, disorderly, frowzy, careless.

slow, a. deliberate, moderate, gradual; dilatory, languid, unready,

phlegmatic, lingering, torpid, sluggish, slack, leisurely; (Colloq.)

wearisome, dull, prosaic, uninteresting, tiresome.

slow, v. slacken, relax, moderate, delay, retard.

sluggish, a. idle, lazy, slothful; inactive, slow, inert.

slump, n. (Colloq.) depreciation.

slur, v. soil, sully; disparage, traduce, asperse; blur, mackle.

slur, n. stain, mark; innuendo, reproach, brand.

slush, n. slosh, sludge.

slut, n. bitch (femaledog); slattern, quean, malkin.

sly, a. cautious, nimble, skillful, arch, wary, knowing, shrewd,

cunning, wily, artful; subtle, stealthy, clandestine, covert,

surreptitious, furtive.

smack, n. taste; kiss, buss; crack, snap.

smacking, a. brisk, smart, resounding.

small, a. little, minute, diminutive, petty, slight, inconsiderable,

puny, tiny, weazened, undeveloped, dwarfish, runty, wee, stunted,

inappreciable, undersized, atrophied; miniature; trivial, insignificant,

trifling, frivolous; mean, narrow-minded, illiberal, sordid, ungenerous,

contracted; short, limited; piping, feeble, weak; microscopic,

infinitesimal, molecular, corpuscular, atomic, fine; homeopathic.

smallpox, n. variola; varioloid (modified smallpox after

vaccination). Associated words: vaccination, vaccine, virus, variolation,

vaccinate, pock, pockmark, pockmarked, antivariolus, variolus, pocky,

papule, pustule.

smart, v. sting, prick, suffer.

smart, a. acute, bright, clever, apt, brilliant, gifted, talented;

precocious; vigorous, energetic, forcible; fashionable, pretentious, trim,

elegant; fresh, smacking, brisk; agile, nimble, lively; pungent, poignant,

intense, keen. Antonyms: dull, inapt, dowdy, tawdry.

smash, v. shiver, crush.--n. destruction, ruin, wreck;

bankruptcy.

smatterer, n. sciolist, superficialist.

smattering, n. sciolism, superficial knowledge.

smear, v. besmear, daub.--n. smooch, smutch, blotch, daub.

smeary, a. dauby, sticky, viscous.

smell, n. olfaction; odor, savor, scent; (sweet smell) fragrance,

aroma, perfume, redolence; (offensive smell) stink, fetor, stench.

Antonyms: inodorousness, scentlessness, anosmia. Associated Words:

olfactory, reek, fume, perfume, inodorous, malodorous, odoriferous,

odorous, osphresiology, osphretic, odorless, deodorize, deodorization,

emanation, effluvium, sniff, whiff, disinfect, disinfection, unsavory,

savory.

smell, v. scent; savor; stink.

smelling, n. olfaction, osmesis (Med.).

smelling salts. sal-volatile, carbonate of ammonia. Associated

word: vinaigrette.

smile, n. smiling; propitiousness, favor.

smirch, n. smutch, discoloration, smooch.

smirk, n. simper, sneer.

smite, v. strike, buffet; blast, destroy; afflict, chasten, visit.

smithereens, n. pl. (Colloq.) atoms, fragments, smithers,

splinters.

smitten, p.p. of smite. stricken; blasted; afflicted, chastened;

enamored, fascinated, infatuated, captivated.

smock, n. shift, chemise, shirt, blouse.

smockfaced, a. smoothfaced, girlish, beardless.

smoke, n. fume, reek, effluvium; smudge (dense smoke). Associated

words: capnomancy, flue, chimney, soot, tewel.

smoke, v. reek; fume; infumate; fumigate; suffumigate; smolder.

smoking, n. smoldering; fuming; fumigation; infumation suffumigation.

smoky, a. fumid, fumy, sooty, reeky, fumacious, fuliginous.

smooch, n. smutch, stain, smudge.

smooth, v. level, plane, sleek, flatten, planish, levigate;

facilitate, pave.

smooth, a. even, plain, flat, level, abraded, levigated, slippery,

sleek, glary; unruffled, placid; voluble, fluent; suave, oily, bland,

insinuating, flattering, smooth-tongued. Antonyms: rough, abrupt.

smoothfaced, a. beardless, smockfaced.

smoothness, n. evenness, levelness, sleekness; volubility, fluency;

suavity.

smooth over. palliate, gloze, extenuate, mitigate.

smooth-spoken, a. smooth-tongued, adulatory, plausible, glib.

Antonyms: brusque, abrupt.

smother, v. suffocate, stifle; extinguish, repress, suppress;

smolder.

smuggler, n. contrabandist.

smut, n. scot, dirt, smutch; mildew, blight; obscenity, lewdness,

ribaldry.

smut, v. stain, blacken, sully, tarnish; crock.

smutty, a. obscene, lewd, ribald, indecent, gross.

snail, n. sluggard, drone; slug.

snake, n. serpent, reptile. See serpent.

snakestone, n. madstone; ammonite.

snaky, a. serpentine, winding; insinuating, subtle, deceitful.

snap, n. spell, period, season, interval; catch, clasp; fillip,

crack, smack, fico; (Collog.) energy, briskness, vigor; (Slang)

sinecure.

snappish, a. captious, irascible, testy, petulant, splenetic, cross.

snare, n. catch, wile, trap, gin, lure, decoy, trapan, toils.

snarl, v. entangle, complicate, involve, knot; confuse, enmesh,

insnare; growl, gnarl. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.

snarl, n. complication, entanglement, intricacy, knot; confusion;

growl.

snarler, n. growler, grumbler, fault-finder, cynic.

snatch, v. seize, grasp, gripe, wrest, pluck, grab, twitch.

sneak, v. skulk, slink, lurk, snoop.

sneaking, a. lurking, skulking, slavish, underhand, covert, stealthy.

sneer, v. mock, gibe, scoff, flout, jeer, deride, ridicule, scout.

sneer, n. gibe, scoff, jeer, gird, derision.

sneezing, n. sternutation. Associated Words: sternutative,

sternutatory.

snicker, n. giggle, titter, snigger.

snide, a. (Slang) tricky, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent.

sniff, v. snuff; scent, smell.--n. snuff, breath.

snivel, n. mucus, snot.

snob, n. upstart, pretender, parvenu; rat, knobstick.

snobbish, a. pretentious, assuming, overbearing, uppish.

snoring, n. Associated Word: stertorous.

snot, n. snivel, mucus (from the nose).

snotty, a. snively, mean, despicable.

snout, n. nose (of a beast), muzzle, proboscis; nozzle.

snow, n. Associated Words: pluviography, flurry, sleet, spoondrift,

drift, flake, igloo, slush, avalanche, hyetology, meteorology, blizzard.

snowy, a. niveous, snowlike.

snub, v. slight, ignore, disregard.

snub, n. slight, check, rebuke.

snuff, n. maccaboy, rappee; sniff.

snug, a. cozy; concealed, close; comfortable, compact.

snuggle, v. nestle, cuddle.

soak, v. drench, saturate; absorb, imbibe; macerate imbrue, steep.

soaked, a. drenched, saturated, sodden.

soaking, a. drenching, saturating.

soap, n. Associated Words: saponify, saponification, saponifiable,

saponin, lather, suds.

soapiness, n. saponacity.

soap liniment. opodeldoc.

soapstone, n. steatite.

soapy, a. saponaceous.

sob, v. weep.

sober, a. temperate, abstinent, abstemious; unintoxicated; solemn,

grave, demure, sedate; dispassionate, unimpassioned, calm, rational.

sobriety, n. soberness; gravity.

sociable, a. affable, friendly, companionable, genial, social,

unreserved. Antonyms: unsociable, inaffable.

social, a. civil, civic; sociable; festive, convivial.

social evil. prostitution.

socialism, n. Communism, Fourierism, Saint Simonianism,

humanitarianism.

society, n. sodality, association, fraternity, club, confraternity,

guild; _verein_ (Ger.); companionship, association, fellowship, company.

sockdologer, n. (Slang) poser, facer, settler, conclusive answer.

sod, n. sward, turf; peat.

sodden, a. boiled, seethed; soaked, saturated.

sofa, n. tête-à-tête, divan, causeuse.

soft, a. mellow; yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable,

fictile, plastic, pliable; bland, emollient, grateful, delicate, subdued;

flexible, flaccid, facile, compliant, irresolute; conciliatory, mild;

effeminate, unmanly silly, foolish; queachy.

soft coal. bituminous coal.

soften, v. intenerate, mollify; palliate, extenuate, qualify,

modify, relax, mitigate, emolliate, appease, temper, abate; subdue, tone

down.

softening, a. demulcent, lenient, assuasive, emollient, relaxing,

mollient, mollifying.

softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity,

fictility, emollescence.

soft parts of the body. Associated Word: sarcology.

soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe,

wheedling, cajolery, flattery.

soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt,

pollution, defilement; manure, dung, fæces, excrement.

soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint,

besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.

soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry;

infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon;

cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.

soldierly, a. martial, military.

soldier's dress. uniform, regimentals.

solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.

solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august,

majestic.

solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.

solicit, v. ask, seek, request.

solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.

solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding,

imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided. Antonyms:

porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.

solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity;

validity.

soliloquy, n. monologue.

solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual;

eremetic, hermitical.

solitary, n. recluse, anchoret, hermit, eremite.

solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement;

wilderness. Associated Words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.

solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution,

disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.

solvent, n. menstruum, dissolvent, resolvent.

somersault, n. somerset.

sometimes, adv. at intervals, now and then, occasionally.

son, n. Associated Words: filial, filiation, unfilial, filicide,

mulier, mulierty.

song, n. hymn, chant, lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric,

lilt, lied, pæan, cantata, aria, sonnet, strain, round, rhapsody, dirge,

chanson.

songcraft, n. versification, poesy, poetry.

song of Solomon. canticle.

song of triumph. pæan.

sonorous, a. resonant, resounding; high-sounding, stentorian,

vibrant.

sonship, n. filiation.

soot, n. crock, smut.

soothe, v. compose, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, mollify, calm.

soothing, a. bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting,

sedative.

soothsayer, n. seer, prophet, diviner, haruspice, foreteller.

soothsaying, n. prophecy, augury, divination, prediction,

prognostication.

sooty, a. fuliginous, soot-covered.

sophism, n. fallacy, paralogy, fallacious reasoning.

sophistical, a. fallacious, unsound.

sophistry, n. fallacy, paralogy, paralogism.

sophomoric, a. inflated, bombastic, pretentious.

soprano, n. descant, treble.

sorcerer, n. conjurer, necromancer, magician, enchanter, juggler,

wizard.

sorcery, n. necromancy, magic, enchantment, witchcraft, black art.

sordid, a. low, degraded, abject, base.

sore, a. ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous, raw, inflamed, irritated;

distressing, grievous, severe; grieved, pained, hurt, sensitive.

sore, n. ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule, boil, abscess,

canker, fester, blain, gathering; (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid.

Associated Words: antiseptic, slough, proud flesh, poultice, salve,

ointment, pledget, spleget.

sore, adv. grievously, sorely, severely, greatly.

sorrow, n. grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue,

unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavement.

sorrow, v. grieve, mourn, regret, deplore, bewail, lament.

sorrowful, a. See sad.

sorry, a. melancholy, mournful, dismal, depressing, sad; abject,

despicable, miserable, mean, paltry, contemptible, pitiful; contrite,

penitent, chagrined, pained.

sort, n. kind, species, character, description, strain, class.

sort, v. assort, classify; conjoin; choose, select, cull; consort,

associate, fraternize; harmonize, agree, accord, conform.

so-so, a. middling, passable, tolerable, mediocre, ordinary, average.

sot, n. toper, drunkard, bibber.

soul, n. spirit, Psyche. Associated Words: psychology, psychic,

psychological, psychomachy, transmigration, metempsychosis, psychogenesis,

psychopannychism, theodicy, monopsychism.

sound, a. whole, intact, perfect, flawless, unimpaired; healthy;

logical; severe, hard, heavy; sane, rational; profound, undisturbed,

unbroken; valid, legal, lawful: seaworthy; sensible, irrefutable,

convincing.

sound, n. strait, narrows, channel.

sound, v. fathom, gauge; examine, try, test, probe, explore;

proclaim, publish, herald; resound.

sound, n. noise, report. Associated Words: acoustic, acoustics,

acoustician, catacoustics, cataphonics, phonetic, phonetics, polycoustic,

phonetism, phonology, polycoustics, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonic,

soniferous, sonification, megaphone, sonorescence, diacritical, harmonics,

phonation, polyphone, polyphonic, polyphonist, polyphony, monophonic,

monophthong, homophone, homophonic, homophony, modulate, modulation.

sounding, n. bathymetry; examination; proclamation; resonance,

reverberation.

sounding, a. sonorous, resonant, sonant.

soundless, a. unfathomable, abysmal; silent, noiseless, aphonic,

surd.

sound-producing, a. sonorific.

soup, n. broth, bouillon, consommé, pottage, purée, bisk, bisque,

julienne.

soup dish. tureen.

sour, a. acid, tart, acetose, acerbitous, acrid; rancid, musty;

curdled, loppered; imbittered, morose, misanthropic, unamiable, dour,

cynical, surly, grum, austere, crabbed, cross.

sour, v. curdle, acidify, lopper, spoil, acidulate; imbitter,

embitter.

source, n. origin, spring, fountain, rise.

sourness, n. acidity, tartness, acerbity, sharpness; rancidity,

mustiness; asperity, acrimony, moroseness, cynicism, crossness.

souse, v. pickle; douse, immerse, plunge, submerge.

soutane, n. cassock.

southerner, n. southron.

southern lights. aurora australis.

south wind. Auster, Notus.

souvenir, n. keepsake, reminder, memento; trophy.

sovereign, a. supreme, chief, paramount, predominant; controlling,

effectual, efficacious.

sovereign, n. ruler, monarch.

sovereignty, n. dominion, supremacy, sway, empire, scepter, dynasty.

sow, v. propagate, disseminate, scatter, plant.

space, n. extension, vacancy; vacuum; distance, interval; interspace

(intervening space); interstice; abyss. Associated Words: plenum,

plenist, vacuist, spacial.

spacious, a. capacious, roomy, vast.

spade, n. spud (narrow_, _with long handle).

Spain, n. Iberia. Associated Words: Hispanicism, Hispanic, Spanish,

Spaniard, Iberian.

span, n. nine inches; team, yoke, pair.

spare, v. forbear, refrain, be merciful.

spare, a. thin, lean, poor, gaunt, meager, lank; superfluous.

sparing, a. economical, frugal, saving, parsimonious, chary; scanty,

scarce, meager; compassionate, indulgent, forbearing, merciful, lenient.

spark, v. court, woo, philander.

sparkle, v. glitter, coruscate, glisten, scintillate, twinkle, gleam.

sparkle, n. scintillation, glitter, gleaming, brilliancy.

sparkling, a. glittering, flashing, brilliant, twinkling, coruscant,

glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering; spirited, vigorous,

impassioned, bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.

sparse, a. scattered, thin, innumerous, meager.

Spartan, a. hardy, undaunted, courageous, doughty.

spasm, n. convulsion, paroxysm, fit, throe.

spasmodic, a. intermittent, fitful, convulsive.

spat, n. tiff, quarrel, dispute, dissension.

spats, n. pl. gaiters, spatterdashes.

spawn, n. roe, ova, eggs (of fishes_, _frogs, etc.); mycelium.

speak, v. utter, pronounce, say, articulate, enunciate, express,

talk; discourse, address, declaim, harangue, preach, lecture, rant,

descant, expatiate; accost, address; declare, publish, proclaim, announce,

bruit. Antonyms: repress, suppress, refrain.

speaker, n. orator, discourser, spokesman, prolocutor, mouthpiece,

interlocutor, chairman.

speaking alone. monologue, soliloquy.

speaking together. conference, collocution.

spear, n. lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed; shoot,

spire, blade.

special, a. particular, especial, specific, exceptional.

specialty, n. particularity; speciality.

specie, n. coin, cash, metallic money.

species, n. group, class, kind, brood, sort, variety.

specific, a. definite, precise, specified; characteristic,

particular, special.

specify, v. designate, particularize, individualize, name.

specimen, n. example, sample, model, copy, pattern.

specious, a. plausible; obvious, manifest.

speck, n. spot, stain; atom, mite, particle, bit.

speckle, v. speck, spot, dot.

speckled, a. spotted, mottled.

spectacle, n. scene, sight, show, exhibition, pageant.

spectator, n. beholder, witness, bystander, onlooker, observer.

specter, n. phantom, apparition, shade, ghost, manes, spirit, wraith,

spook.

spectral, a. phantomlike, ghostly.

speculate, v. theorize, meditate, conjecture, guess, think.

speculation, n. theory, supposition, conjecture; contemplation,

thought.

speculative, a. contemplative, meditative; theoretical,

supposititious.

speech, a. utterance, speaking; language, talk, conversation,

parlance, words; tongue, dialect; patois; discourse, oration, address,

plea, declamation, dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation,

disquisition, effusion, descant; harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed,

rhapsody, philippic, invective, rant; soliloquy, monologue; dialogue;

colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation,

prevarication, quibbling; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly,

dilogy. Associated Words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize,

extemporization, impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia,

amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric, oratorical, rhetorical,

rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration, voluble, volubility, fluent,

fluency.

speechless, a. dumb, mute, aphasic, inarticulate.

speechlessness, n. dumbness, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity,

aphasia.

speed, n. velocity, swiftness, rapidity, celerity, haste, expedition,

dispatch, posthaste; impetuosity. Associated Words: tachymeter,

tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph, momentum, impetus.

speed, v. hurry, hasten; accelerate, expedite, quicken, dispatch,

facilitate; prosper, favor.

speedy, a. swift, quick, fast, rapid, fleet, hasty, hurried,

expeditious.

spell, n. charm, incantation, exorcism; period, season, interval.

spell, v. orthographize; decipher, read, unravel, unfold; charm,

bewitch.

spellbound, a. fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.

speller, n. orthographist, orthographer.

spelling, n. orthography. Associated Words: orthographic, phonetic,

glossic, nomic, homographic, homography, homograph, heterographic,

heterography, cacographic, cacography.

spend, v. expend, disburse.

spender, n. prodigal, spendthrift.

spending, n. expenditure, disbursement.

spendthrift, n. waster, spender, prodigal, squanderer

spent, a. exhausted, tired, consumed, worn out.

sperm-whale, n. cachelot, spermaceti whale.

sphere, n. globe, orb, ball; province, circuit, beat, purview,

compass, circle; station, position, rank; region, domain, realm; orbit.

spice, n. condiment; piquancy, pungency.

spicy, a. aromatic, fragrant; piquant, pungent, sharp.

spider, n. araneidan; scorpion, tarantula; pl. Araneina,

Arachnida. Associated Words: arachnology, arachnologist, araneidan,

araneiform, web, arachnoid, arachnophagous, spinneret, arachnean, falcer,

cobweb, cocoon, retiary, arachnidium.

spigot, n. stopper, plug, stopple.

spin, v. whirl, twirl, revolve, gyrate; protract, prolong, extend.

spinach, n. Associated Word: spinaceous.

spinal, a. vertebral, rachidian.

spinal cord. myelon, myel.

spindle-shaped, a. fusoid, fusiform.

spindling, a. tall and slender.

spine, n. backbone, spinal column, rachis, chine. Associated Words:

Vertebrata, Invertebrata, vertebra, vertebrate, cyrtosis, chiropractic,

chiropractor, spondyle, coccyx, rickets, ependyma, ependymis.

spineless, a. invertebrate.

spinet, n. virginal, clarichord.

spinning, n. whirling, twirling.

spiral, a. winding, cochleate, helical, turbinated, helicoid.

spire, n. steeple; shoot, stalk, blade, spear; top, peak, summit.

spirit, n. soul; shade, apparition, specter, ghost, phantom,

revenant; animus; vivacity, energy, life, ardor, enthusiasm, zeal, force,

intensity; temper, mood; meaning, intent, significance; pl. manes.

spirit, v. inspirit, animate, encourage; spirit away, carry off,

kidnap, abduct.

spirited, a. animated, lively, ardent, mettlesome, fervent,

passionate.

spit, v. expectorate; spawl, sputter; eject.

spit, n. spittle, sputum, saliva. Associated Words: salivary,

salivous, salivant, salivate, salivation, ptyalin.

spite, n. malignity, malice, rancor, hate, resentment, defiance,

spleen.

spiteful, a. malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, hateful.

spitting, n. expectoration.

spittoon, n. cuspidor, spitbox.

splash, v. plash, dash, spatter, dabble.-- n. daub, splotch,

blot.

spleen, n. milt; anger, spite, malice, choler; melancholy,

depression. Associated Words: splenic, splenetic, splenography,

splenology, splenotomy, splenitis, lienal, lienitis, splenalgia,

splenocele, splenoid.

spleeny, a. irritable, petulant, choleric, irascible; melancholy.

splendid, a. bright, brilliant; magnificent, grand, superb, imposing,

sumptuous; illustrious, glorious, distinguished, celebrated, famous.

splendor, n. brilliancy, brightness; magnificence, pageantry, pomp,

grandeur; renown, glory, eminence, sublimity, fame.

splice, v. interweave, unite, braid together.

splinter, n. sliver, flinder.

split, v. rive, cleave, sunder, rend, divide, separate, rift, burst,

rupture, disunite, disrupt.

split, n. crack, rent, fissure, rift; (Colloq.) breach, separation,

disunion, rupture.

split, a. cleft, riven, divided, sundered, rent, disunited cloven.

splitting, n. fission, cleavage, riving, sundering, rupture

disruption. Associated Words: fissile, fissility.

splotch, n. smear, smudge, smutch, daub, spot, stain.

spoil, v. plunder, rob, pillage, ravage, depredate, despoil

devastate, sack; corrupt, vitiate, debase, mar, demoralize, deprave,

sophisticate, infect, defile, contaminate; disfigure, deface, damage;

decay, addle, putrefy, rot.

spoil, n. plunder, pillage, booty, prize, gain, loot; waste, robbery,

devastation, sacking, rapine, spoliation; corruption, decay, vitiation.

spoke, n. radius, ray; rung, round.

spoken, a. oral, nuncupative, parole.

spokesman, n. speaker, mouthpiece, prolocutor.

sponge, v. imbibe, absorb; expunge, efface, erase, obliterate.

sponger, n. parasite, hanger-on, trencher friend.

spongy, a. porous, spongoid, spongiform, incompact; absorbent,

bibulous.

sponsor, n. godparent; surety. Associated Words: sponsorial,

sponsorship, sponsion, ward, protégé.

spontaneous, a. instinctive, voluntary, impulsive, unforced

spontaneous generation. abiogenesis.

spook, n. ghost, spirit, specter, apparition, phantom, hobgoblin.

spooney, a. (Colloq.) silly, sentimental, foolishly fond.

spoor, n. track, trail (of a wild animal).

sporadic, a. separate, single, isolated.

sport, n. amusement, game, recreation, fun, play, diversion, pastime,

jollity, pleasantry, hilarity, gayety, merriment; derision, mockery,

ridicule, jeer; plaything, toy; monstrosity; (Slang) sportsman.

sport, v. frolic, play, caper, disport; (Colloq.) exhibit wear,

display.

sportive, a. frolicsome, merry, boon, frisky, sprightly, prankish,

gamesome.

spot, n. speck, speckle, mark, blot, discoloration, fleck, dapple,

blotch, smutch; stain, reproach, blemish, flaw; place, locality; areola,

areolet, areolation, ocellus.

spot, v. dapple, variegate, mottle, speckle, blot, sully, stain,

maculate.

spotless, a. immaculate, unspotted, stainless, unsullied,

irreproachable, blameless.

spotted, a. speckled, dappled, dotted, discolored, variegated,

bespeckled, flecked, freckled, spotty, soiled, piebald, mottled, blotched,

pinto, pied, pintado, party-colored, specked, plashy, finchbacked,

rubican, ocellated.

spotted fever. cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhus fever.

spotted sickness. pint.

spout, v. spurt, squirt, gush; rant, harangue; (Cant) pawn.

spout, h. nozzle; conduit, trough, adjutage; waterspout; gargoyle;

dale.

spouter, n. declaimer, ranter, haranguer.

spout hole. blowhole, spiracle.

spouting, n. harangue, declamation, magniloquence, ranting.

spray, n. twig, sprig, branch.

spray, n. Associated Words: atomize, atomization, atomizer,

spoondrift, nebulize, nebulizer, nebulization.

spread, v. extend, stretch, expand, dilate; unfurl, unroll, open;

disseminate, bruit, circulate, propagate, promulgate, diffuse, emit;

suffuse; cover, overspread, mantle; expatiate.

spread, n. extent, compass, reach; (Colloq.) feast; cover.

spreadeagle, a. bombastic, boastful, magniloquent, grandiloquent.

spreading, n. extension, expansion, dilation; dissemination,

propagation, promulgation, diffusion, circulation; suffusion,

circumfusion; radiation.

spree, n. (Colloq.) carousal, debauch, revelry, orgies,

bacchanals, wassail, saturnalia.

sprig, n. shoot, slip, twig, spray.

sprightliness, n. animation, liveliness, vivacity, activity,

briskness, lilt.

sprightly, a. lively, brisk, animated, debonair, vivacious, sportive,

gay.

spring, v. dart, shoot; bound, leap, jump, hop, vault; emerge, rise,

arise; rebound, recoil, fly back; bend, warp; issue, emanate, originate,

flow, arise.

spring, n. leap, bound, saltation, vault, jump; resilience,

elasticity, springiness; fount, fountain, source; cause, origin, motive,

source; springtime, vernal season.

spring, n. Associated Word: pegology.

springboard, n. batule, batule board.

springy, a. elastic, resilient, rebounding, recoiling; spongy,

yielding, queachy.

sprinkle, v. scatter, strew; besprinkle, bedew, asperse.

sprinkling, n. aspersion, besprinkling.

sprinter, n. runner.

sprite, n. elf, goblin, pixy, fay, specter, phantom, ghost.

sprout, v. germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, grow, vegetate; branch,

ramify; tiller.

sprout, n. shoot, tiller, chit, sucker, scion; aerospire, plumule;

rattoon.

sprouting, n. germination.

spruce, a. natty, jaunty, neat, finical, trim.

spry, a. agile, nimble, quick, brisk, sprightly, alert.

spunk, n. touchwood, punk, amadou.

spunk, n. (Colloq.) spirit, mettle, pluck.

spunky, a. (Colloq.) mettlesome, plucky, spirited.

spur, n. rowel, goad, prick; snag, projection; incitement, stimulus,

goad, incentive, instigation, impetus, provocation; spine (on a cock's

leg).

spur, v. goad, incite, urge, stimulate, instigate, impel.

spurious, a. counterfeit, sham, false, mock, adulterine,

unauthentic.

spurn, v. reject, scorn, contemn, despise, scout.

spurn, n. rejection, disdain, scorning.

spurt, n. gushing, spouting, jet, ejection.-- v. gush, spout,

jet.

spy, n. scout; emissary (disguised).-- v. espy, see.

spying, n. espionage, espial.

squab, a. plump, stout, fat; unfledged, unfeathered.

squabble, n. wrangle, dispute, altercation. See quarrel.

squad, n. band, gang, knot, bevy, company.

squalid, a. filthy, foul, nasty, dirty.

squalidness, n. squalor.

square, n. quadrate, quadrature; block, area; equality, level,

agreement.

square, a. equitable, true, just, honest, impartial; even, balanced,

adjusted; quadrate, quadratic.

square, v. adjust, fit, suit; balance, settle; conform, agree, accord.

squares, n. pl. Associated Words: tessellate, tessellated,

tessellation, mosaic, checkered.

squat, v. crouch, cower.

squeak, v. creak; (Colloq.) betray, tell, confess.

squeal, v. cry, yell; (Slang) tell, betray, confess.

squeeze, v. compress, gripe, pinch; oppress, extort; crowd, elbow,

press.

squeeze, n. compression, pressure; (Colloq.) exaction, extortion.

squelch, v. (Colloq.) crush, silence, quell, stifle, abash.

squib, n. satire, lampoon, pasquinade.

squint-eyed, a. cross-eyed, cock-eyed, gimlet-eyed.

squinting, n. strabismus; cross-eye.

squirm, v. wriggle, writhe, twist.

squirrel skin. vair.

s-shaped, a. sigmoid, sigmoidal, sigmate.

stab, v. pierce, thrust, gore, transfix; backbite, malign.

stab, n. thrust, wound, stoccado.

stability, n. fixedness, firmness, permanence, constancy, steadiness.

Antonyms: instability, unsteadiness.

stable, a. steady, firm, immovable, unwavering, constant, permanent.

stable, n. barn; mews. Associated Words: paddock, equerry.

stableman, n. groom, hostler.

stack, n. pile, rick.

staff, n. rod, stick, cane; truncheon; mace; crozier; support;

bourdon.

stag, n. hart.

stage, n. platform, rostrum; scaffold, staging; theater, playhouse,

arena, boards; degree, step, point; drama. Associated Words: histrionic,

histrionism, histrionicism, proscenium, postscenium, parascenium,

coulisse, wing.

stagecoach, n. stage, omnibus, diligence (France).

stagger, v. reel, totter, sway; shock, astound, dumfound.

stagnant, a. motionless, standing, quiet; inactive, dull, sluggish.

stagy, a. theatrical, assumed, bombastic.

staid, a. sedate, demure, serious, settled.

stain, v. soil, sully, defile, taint.

stain, n. blot, taint, discoloration, tarnish.

stainless, a. immaculate, spotless.

stairway, n. stairs, staircase, flight of stairs; escalator (moving

stairway); caracole (spiral staircase). Associated Words: baluster,

balustrade, newel, landing, riser, tread, banister, nosing, dog-legged.

stake, n. picket, pale, post; pledge, wager, bet; venture, risk,

hazard.

stake, v. venture, risk, hazard, wager, bet, pledge.

stale, a. vapid, musty, fusty, flat, insipid, mawkish; trite, common,

banal, hackneyed, commonplace.

staleness, n. vapidity, mustiness, insipidity; triteness, banality.

stalk, n. stem, axis, petiole, pedicel, peduncle, spire, stipe,

culm, kecksy.

stall, n. stable; booth, stand; seat. Associated Words: manger,

stanchion.

stalwart, a. strapping, brawny, muscular, redoubted, athletic,

strong.

stamina, n. vigor, strength, sturdiness, backbone.

stamp, v. impress, imprint; stomp (Colloq.).

stamp, n. impression, imprint, die; hallmark; pestle.

stamp out. extinguish, crush, quell.

stamps, n. pl. Associated Words: philately, philatelist,

philatelic, timbrology, frank, grill, surcharge.

stanch, a. loyal, steadfast, constant, true, unwavering; sound.

stand, v. endure, bear, weather, brook, suffer, tolerate, yield to,

abide, submit; agree, accord, be consistent; stagnate.

stand, n. halt, stop, pause, stay; tripod, trivet; situation,

location, position, post; stall, booth; quandary, perplexity; resistance,

opposition, withstanding; stillion.

standard, n. criterion, model, type, pattern, norm; gauge, measure;

flag, colors; labarum, vexillum.

standard-bearer, n. color-bearer, color-sergeant, ensign, vexillary;

leader.

stand by. befriend, vindicate, advocate, defend, maintain.

standing, a. erect; stagnant; lasting, permanent, persistent.

standing, n. status.

standing out. prominent, projecting, protuberant, jutting out;

conspicuous, salient.

standing out. prominence, projection, protuberance, bulge,

protrusion; conspicuousness, salience; persistence, incompliance,

obduracy.

standing up for. defense, justification, support, advocacy.

stand in hand. behoove, be advantageous, conduce to one's interest.

stand it. endure, tolerate, bear, brook.

stand off. keep aloof, refrain; refuse, resist, withstand.

stand out. project, overhang, jut out, beetle; resist, withstand.

standpoint, n. point of view, viewpoint.

stand up for. defend, support, espouse, champion, advocate, justify,

vindicate.

star, n. luminary, planet; asterisk, asterism; pentalpha; pentacle;

meteor. Associated Words: astronomy, astronomer, astronomical,

astrolatry, astrolater, astrogeny, astrology, astrologer, astrological,

astrometry, astromancy, sidereal, astral, horoscope, constellation,

zodiac, observatory, galaxy, acronycal, cosmical, astrophotography,

astrophysics, periastral, stellar, interstellar, intersidereal, orbit.

star, v. bespangle.

starched, a. stiff, ceremonious, prim, formal, punctilious, precise.

starchy, a. amylaceous, amyloid, starched.

starry, a. bespangled; astral, stellar, stellary, radiated,

stelliform.

start, v. set out, go, initiate, launch, institute, embark.

startle, v. scare, surprise, affright.

starvation, n. famishment.

starve, v. famish.

state, n. condition, plight, category, situation, pass, predicament,

circumstances; rank, quality; pomp, grandeur, magnificence; commonwealth;

canton. Associated Words: federal, federalist, federalism, federalize,

confederate, confederation, gerrymander, secession.

state, v. assert, affirm, aver, allege, say, specify, declare.

statehouse, n. capitol.

stately, a. imposing, dignified, august, pompous, majestic, formal.

statement, n. assertion, affirmation, specification, avowal,

averment, narration, dictum.

station, n. standing, rank, status; depot; situation, place.

statue, n. image; acrolith, caryatid; xoanon. Associated Words:

sculpture, statuary, sculptor, statuesque, figurine, esquisse.

status, n. standing, rank, station, condition.

statute, n. law. Associated Words: statutable, statutory, purview.

stay, v. sojourn, tarry, lodge, remain, continue, abide; support,

prop, buttress, brace, uphold, strengthen; delay, obstruct, hinder,

restrain, appease, withhold, forbear, withstand, impede, retard.

stay, n. sojourn, abidance, stop; dependence, support, upholder;

impediment, hindrance, obstruction, restraint.

steadfast, a. firm, fixed; constant, unswerving, unwavering, stanch,

unshaken.

steady, a. steadfast, constant; stable, firm, fixed; unremitted,

constant, uniform, undeviating. Antonyms: intermittent, infrequent,

occasional, inconstant, unsteady.

steal, v. pilfer, filch, peculate, purloin, poach, abstract, rob,

defraud, pirate, plunder, crib, pillage, rapine loot, thieve, embezzle,

peculate, plagiarize; insinuate, creep furtively, go stealthily, sneak,

slink, skulk; ratten.

stealer, n. See thief.

stealing, n. theft, larceny, robbery, pilfering, peculation,

thievery, abstraction, looting, cribbing, rapine, depredation, surreption,

piracy, plundering, pillage, embezzlement, peculation, shop lifting,

plagiarism. Associated Words: light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder,

loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania.

stealthy, a. clandestine, sly, secret, furtive, skulking, underhand.

steam, n. vapor, reek, fume, emanation, effluvium, exhalation, stufa.

steam organ. calliope.

steel, n. Associated Words: siderotechny, siderurgy, bessemerize,

Bessemer, damaskeen, damask.

steel, v. fortify, brace, nerve.

steel-engraving, n. siderography.

steep, a. precipitous, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular: (Slang)

excessive, immoderate.

steep, n. precipice, cliff, abrupt declivity; escarpment, scarp.

steep, v. soak, macerate, imbrue, infuse.

steeple, n. spire, tower, turret; minaret.

steer, v. guide, pilot, control, govern.

steerable, a. dirigible.

steering, n. guiding. Associated Words: tiller, rudder, helm.

steersman, n. helmsman, pilot, cockswain.

stem, n. trunk, body; peduncle, pedicel, petiole, stalk, culm; root,

etymon, radical, radix, theme.

stem, v. oppose, withstand, breast, resist, check.

stench, n. fetor, stink.

stenography, n. phonography, shorthand.

step, n. pace; stair, round; footstep, footprint, footmark, track;

grade, degree, gradation; measure, action, procedure, expedient; stride

(a long step).

step, v. pace, stride.

stepmother, n. Associated Word: novercal.

steps, n. pl. stairs; stile; perron.

sterile, a. barren, infecund, unproductive, unfruitful, unprolific.

sterility, v. barrenness, infecundity, unproductiveness. Associated

words: sterilize, sterilization.

stern, a. austere, rigorous, exacting, strict, hard-hearted.

sternness, n. austerity, severity, rigor, strictness.

stew, n. (Colloq.) confusion, agitation; ragout.

steward, n. purveyor; major-domo; seneschal, dapifer; manciple.

stewpan, n. skillet.

stick, n. switch, rod, birch; billet; fagot; wand; cane, staff,

walking-stick; club, cudgel; goad, gad; gambrel, garrot, ferule, skewer,

batlet; stake; boomerang, woomerah; stab, thrust; maul-stick; sprag;

pl. chatwood.

stick, v. pierce, stab, penetrate, impale, transfix, gore; insert,

thrust, push, infix; paste, cement, glue, attach, affix; cleave, cling,

adhere, remain, abide; stall; hesitate, scruple; adhere, agglutinate,

glutinate, cohere; pose, puzzle, disconcert; stick out, project, jut,

protrude. (Slang) impose upon, cheat.

sticker, n. poster; label; adhesive, glue, cement, mucilage, paste,

agglutinant; (Colloq.) puzzle, poser.

stickiness, n. adhesiveness, viscosity, tenacity, cohesiveness,

glutinousness.

sticking, n. adhesion, adherence, coherence, cleaving, cohesion,

agglutination.

sticking out. projecting, protruding, prominent.--n. projection,

protrusion, prominence.

stickle, v. contend, altercate, dispute, quibble, scruple, haggle,

higgle, chaffer; trim, prevaricate, shift, palter, play fast and loose.

stickler, n. haggler, higgler, contender.

sticktoitiveness, n. (Colloq.) pertinacity, persistence,

perseverance, diligence, tenacity.

stick up for. (Colloq.) assert and defend, vindicate.

sticky, a. adhesive, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous,

clammy, tenacious.

stiff, a. inflexible, rigid, firm, unbending, inelastic, stark,

impliable, rigorous, unyielding, inductile; strong, violent, forcible,

inopposable; pertinacious, obstinate, tenacious, uncompromising,

incompliant; constrained, formal, starched, affected, unnatural, precise,

prim, ceremonious, prudish, punctilious; cramped, graceless, inelegant;

(Slang) high, immoderate, large. Antonyms: limber, flaccid, limp,

flexible, lithe.

stiff joint. anchylosis.

stiff neck. obstinacy, contumacy, intractability, incompliance,

stubbornness.

stiff-necked, a. obstinate, intractable, perverse, contumacious,

stubborn, obdurate.

stiffness, n. inflexibility, rigidity, firmness; prudery, constraint,

precision, formality; tension. Antonyms: pliability, limpness,

flexibility, flaccidity, ease, relaxation, informality.

stifling, a. close, oppressive, suffocating.

still, a. motionless, unruffled, stagnant, quiescent, inert,

stationary, placid, tranquil; noiseless, inaudible, silent, mum.

still, v. calm, compose, quiet, silence, hush.

still-hunt, n. stalking.

stilted, a. bombastic, pompous, grandiose, highflown, grandiloquent.

stimulant, n. excitant; provocation, stimulus, spur, goad.

stimulate, v. excite, incite, instigate, arouse, provoke, goad, spur.

stimulus, n. incentive; pl. stimuli.

sting, n. aculeus, prick; goad, incitement.

stinginess, n. parsimony, illiberality, penuriousness, closeness,

avarice. Antonyms: liberality, generosity.

stingy, a. parsimonious, illiberal, close, penurious, miserly,

avaricious, close-fisted, sordid, niggardly. Antonyms: liberal,

generous.

stink, n. stench, fetor.

stinking, a. fetid, malodorous, offensive, noisome, ill-smelling.

stinkstone, n. anthraconite, swinestone.

stint, n. limit, restraint, restriction; assignment, allotment.

stint, v. limit, restrict, restrain, confine, stent, straiten.

stipend, n. Associated Words: stipendiary, stipendiate,

stipendiarian.

stir, v. move, budge.

stir, n. agitation, tumult, bustle, commotion, flutter, ado,

activity, confusion, flurry, disturbance, fuss.

stirring, a. animated, lively, strenuous, active, enterprising.

stock, n. goods, merchandise, wares, reserve.

stock, v. replenish, supply, furnish.

stockjobbing, n. agiotage.

stockings, n. pl. hosiery, hose.

stocky, a. (Colloq.) stout, plump.

stodgy, a. stuffed, distended, lumpish.

stogy, a. heavy, coarse, clumsy.

stolen goods. booty, loot, spoil, plunder, pillage. Associated

word: fence.

stolid, a. dull, impassive, stupid, obtuse.

stomach, v. resent, dislike; (Colloq.) bear, brook, tolerate,

stand, endure.

stomach, n. (of ruminants) fardingbag, paunch, rumen, reticulum,

psalterium, manyplies, abomasum, omasum; (of birds) gizzard, crop, maw.

stomach, n. Associated Words: gastric, gastrology, gastronomy,

gastritis, agastric, rennet, tripe, stomachal, stomachic, alvine,

gastrectomy, pylorous, gastroscope, gastroscopy, stomacher, paunchy,

paunch, anticardium, gastralgia, abdomen, abdominous.

stomach-ache, n. (Colloq.) colic.

stone, n. rock, bowlder; pebble; calculus, concretion; flint,

granite, marble, quartz, adamant, shale, flag, flagstone, cobblestone,

rubble, brash, shingle; monolith, polyolith; cairn, muller, merestone;

cromlech; madstone, snakestone; aërolite, meteorite; (of fruit)

endocarp, pit, nut, putamen. Associated Words: petrify, petrifaction,

lithology, lithography, lithic, lapidary, lithoglypher, lithoglyptic,

litholatry, lapidescence, lapidescent, lapidify, lapillation,

lapidification, lapidific, lapilli, catapult, quarry, petrography,

lapidist, petrology, geology, lithogenesis, lithification, wimble, Niobe,

petrescence, petrescent, petrifactive, petrologist, concrete, lapidarian,

lapidarious, fossil, schist, scapple, lichen, regolith, monadnock,

saxatile, saxicoline, saxicavous, saxifrage, saxifragous.

stone, n. (precious and semi-precious) gem, jewel, diamond,

brilliant, beryl, emerald, chalcedony, bloodstone, agate, heliotrope

girasole, onyx, sardonyx, garnet, sardine stone, jade, opal, peridot,

chrysolite, sapphire, ruby, topaz, turquoise, turquoise matrix, zircon,

hyacinth, carbuncle, amethyst, pearl, coral, bijou, doublet, carnelian,

briolette, cabochon, chatoyant, rhinestone, amphibole, aquamarine,

tourmaline, rhodolite, spinel, bufonite. Antonyms: paste, strass,

gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, pinchbeck, gaud, bauble, foil stone. Associated

words: lapidary, lapidist, lapidarian, cameo, intaglio, facet, naif,

anaglyph, briquet, collet, platinum, bizet, caret, anaglyphic, diaglyptic,

anaglyphies, glyptography, table, bezel, girdle, pavilion, cadrans, mound,

mount, dichroiscope, dichroism, dichroscope.

stone pit. quarry.

stone coffin. sarcophagus.

stonecutting, n. stereotomy.

stonecutter's consumption. chalicosis.

stony, a. rocky, flinty, adamantine, petrous; unrelenting, pitiless.

stool, n. footstool, cricket, hassock, ottoman, tabouret, buffet;

tripod, trivet; faldstool; excrement, fæces.

stoop, v. bend; condescend, deign, descend.

stoop, n. condescension, descent; porch, veranda, piazza.

stop, v. obstruct, close up; stanch; arrest, hinder, impede, block,

stay, check; repress, restrain, suppress, deter, interrupt, suspend,

thwart, preclude, intercept, impede; halt, pause, stagnate, stand; refrain

from, discontinue, cease, desist, suspend, intermit; break off, forbear:

lodge, tarry. Antonyms: continue, persist.

stop, n. cessation, discontinuation, surcease, pause, suspension,

intermission, interception, interruption, obstruction, obstacle,

impediment.

stoppage, n. arrest, stopping, detention, stop.

stopper, n. stopple, cork, bung.

store, n. shop; accumulation, stock, abundance, plenty, hoard,

supply.

store, v. stock, replenish, save, hoard, garner, husband, treasure

up.

storehouse, n. warehouse, repository, depot, store, magazine,

promptuary.

storm, n. tempest. Antonyms: calm, subsidence, serenity,

tranquillity.

storm, v. assault, attack, besiege, expugn; rage, fume, rant.

storminess, n. inclemency, tempestuousness, boisterousness, violence.

stormy, a. tempestuous, boisterous, inclement, rugged, impetuous;

violent, furious, wild; agitated, disturbed. Antonyms: calm, pacific,

serene.

story, n. fiction, tale, anecdote, romance, novel, fable, legend,

myth, parable, apologue, chronicle, record, history, narrative, narration,

yarn, rehearsal, recital, tradition, jeremiad; falsehood, canard; floor,

loft; mezzanine, entresol.

story-teller, n. _raconteur_.

stout, a. strong, powerful, vigorous, enduring, durable, tough;

portly, fleshy, corpulent, thickset, obese, burly, chubby, fat.

straddle, v. bestride.

straight, a. perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright; direct,

rectilinear, undeviating, unswerving; square, honest, equitable,

honorable; (Slang) unmixed, clear, undiluted. Antonyms: indirect,

oblique, crooked, devious, circuitous. See crooked.

straight-out, a. (Colloq.) unqualified, thoroughgoing, artless,

undesigning.

straightway, n. immediately, at once, directly, forthwith.

strain, v. stretch, tighten; sprain, wrench; percolate, filter,

defecate, filtrate; overtask, overwork.

strain, n. pedigree, race, lineage, extraction; sort, kind;

overexertion, effort; tension, intension; tune, melody; style, manner.

strained, a. tense, unnatural, forced, artificial, agonistic,

farfetched.

strainer, n. colander, filter, sieve.

strait, n. narrows, channel; dilemma, difficulty, pinch, exigency,

restriction.

straiten, v. limit, restrict, narrow, confine, constrain, tighten,

embarrass.

straitened, a. restricted, embarrassing, distressing.

strait-laced, a. uncompromising, rigorous, strict, prudish, prim,

precise.

stranded, a. wrecked, aground, beached.

strange, a. foreign, unfamiliar, exotic, outlandish; novel, odd,

unusual, queer, unique, nondescript, exceptional, singular, peculiar,

rare, erratic, unique, bizarre, eccentric, inexplicable; unaccustomed,

unfamiliar; reserved, distant, unfriendly; unknown. Antonyms: familiar,

accustomed, wonted, commonplace, conventional.

strangle, v. choke, throttle, suffocate; stifle, suppress; garrote.

strangling, n. strangulation, choking, suffocation, suppression,

constriction.

strap, n. thong, strop, leash.

strapping, a. (Colloq.) stalwart, able-bodied, large, muscular,

brawny.

stratagem, n. artifice, device, machination, maneuver, intrigue,

ruse, finesse.

straw, n. stalk, culm; litter, mulch; sennet, platting.

straw roof. thatch, thatching.

strawy, a. stramineous.

stray, v. wander, rove, roam, swerve, deviate; err, sin.

stray, n. estray, waif.

streak, n. stripe, wale, whelk, ridge, vein.

streaked, a. striped, streaky, whelky, striated, whelked, brindled,

barred, veined.

stream, n. current, river, creek, brook, race, run, rivulet, rill,

runnel; drift, course, tendency; torrent; arroyo; flume.

stream, v. pour, gush, run; radiate, shed.

streamer, n. ensign, pennon, banner, banderole, flag.

street, n. highway, avenue, thoroughfare, boulevard.

street car. trolley car; tram (England).

street cleaner. scavenger.

street railway. tramway (England).

strength, n. force, vigor, power, might, hardihood, potency,

puissance, stamina; tenacity, toughness, durability; impregnability,

invincibility; security, validity, conclusiveness, cogency, efficacy;

support, stay; intensity, vividness; virility; vehemence, violence, force,

impetuosity; fortitude; robustness, lustiness, stoutness, brawniness,

muscularity, thew, sturdiness. Antonyms: debility, delicacy, fragility,

weakness, impotency, frailty, infirmity.

strengthen, v. invigorate, brace, nerve, steel, fortify, harden;

intensify, heighten; confirm, corroborate, sustain.

strengthening, a. invigorating, roborant, tonic, fortifying.

strenuous, a. zealous, ardent, valiant, intrepid, vigorous, active,

energetic.

strenuousness, n. zeal, ardor, intrepidity, earnestness, strenuosity,

activity, energy.

stress, n. urgency, pressure; emphasis, accent; severity, inclemency;

significance, importance.

stretch, v. extend, elongate, lengthen, spread; overstate,

exaggerate; distend.

stretcher, n. litter.

stretching, n. tension, distension, extension, porrection,

pandiculation, intension.

strict, a. rigorous, stringent, exacting, rigid. Antonyms: lax,

remiss, indulgent.

stricture, n. animadversion, criticism; contraction.

strife, n. conflict, struggle, contention, emulation, competition,

battle.

strike, v. hit, smite, buffet, knock, beat, thump, whack, cuff, slap;

deal, inflict; impress, affect.

striking, a. impressive, noticeable, astonishing, surprising,

forcible.

string, n. cord, line, twine, warp; fillet, ribbon; series, chain,

concatenation, row; chord; leash, learn; thong. Associated Words:

polychord, monochord.

stringent, a. binding, restrictive, rigid, severe, rigorous, exact.

stringer, n. sleeper, tie; joist.

stringy, a. fibrous, filamentous; ropy, viscid, tenacious, viscous.

strip, n. shred, fillet, batten, cleat, list.

strip, v. deprive, divest, dispossess, dismantle; plunder, desolate,

devastate, pillage, sack, fleece, rifle, despoil; undress, disrobe,

denude, uncover.

stripe, n. streak, band, wale, wheal, whelk, ridge, striation, stria.

stripe, n. (Colloq.) sort, likeness, color, kind.

striped, a. streaked, striate, striated.

stripping, n. deprivation, divestiture, divestment, dispossession,

dismantling; plunder, desolation, devastation, depredation, despoliation,

fleecing, sacking, rapine; denudation, undressing, denuding, disrobing.

strive, v. struggle, try, endeavor, contend, vie, cope.

stroll, v. ramble, rove, range, stray, straggle, wander.

strolling, a. wandering, nomadic, itinerant, roving, vagrant,

straggling.

strong, a. firm, tough, enduring, hale, sound, robust, hardy,

durable, puissant; powerful, mighty, invincible, impregnable,

irresistible, fortified; virile, athletic, muscular, brawny, vigorous,

stout, strapping, lusty, sturdy, sinewy, stalwart, thewy, able-bodied;

violent, forcible, impetuous, vehement; potent, cogent, influential,

urgent, convincing, conclusive; ardent, eager, zealous, strenuous, stanch,

unwavering, determined; spirituous, intoxicating, alcoholic; vivid,

dazzling, intense, glaring; effective, drastic, potent; racy, pungent,

piquant; tough, tenacious; rank, strong-smelling; valid. Antonyms: weak,

vulnerable, frail, fragile, delicate, faint, mild, frangible.

stronghold, n. fastness, fort, fortress, muniment, donjon, citadel,

keep, bulwark.

strong-smelling, a. fetid, rank, frowzy, rancid, malodorous,

offensive, musty.

struggle, n. conflict, contest, strife.

struggle, v. strive, cope, grapple, labor.

stub, n. stump, counterfoil.

stubble, n. eddish, rowen, arrish.

stubborn, a. unyielding, obstinate, obdurate, mulish, refractory,

indocile, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, perverse, contumacious,

impersuadable, recalcitrant, stiff-necked, rugged, persistent,

incompliant.

stuck-up, a. (Colloq.) proud, arrogant, haughty, vain, overbearing,

cavalier, supercilious, uppish.

studio, n. atelier.

study, n. research, excogitation, lucubration, cogitation; étude

(Mus.); curriculum (course of study).

study, v. muse, pore, con over, lucubrate, excogitate; dig, grind.

stuff, n. material, fabric, cloth; trash, refuse, rubbish; goods,

things; nonsense, balderdash.

stuff, v. cram, press, stow, crowd, fill.

stuffing, n. filling, forcemeat, dressing, farce.

stumbling-block, n. difficulty, obstruction, hindrance, barrier,

stumbling-stone.

stump, v. (Colloq.) dare, challenge, nonplus.

stun, v. overcome, stupefy, dumfound, bewilder.

stunning, a. overpowering, stupefying; astonishing, striking, fine.

stunt, v. dwarf, atrophy.

stunted, a. dwarfed, atrophied, undeveloped, scrubby, undersized.

stupefier, n. stupefacient, narcotic, opiate.

stupefy, v. dull, benumb, hebetate, blunt, besot.

stupid, a. dull, stolid, obtuse, sluggish, inept, bovine,

beef-witted, beetle-headed, besotted, fat-witted, doltish, undiscerning;

prosaic, vapid, prosy, humdrum, uninspiring tame; lethargic, comatose,

stupefied, torpid, insensible. Antonyms: shrewd, sharp, apt, spirited,

lively, exciting, interesting.

stupor, a. lethargy, insensibility, unconsciousness, narcoma, torpor,

coma.

sturdy, a. obstinate, stubborn, pertinacious; strong, hardy, robust.

sty, n. hordeolum.

style, n. mode, vogue, fashion; manner, way, method.

stylish, a. modish, fashionable, in vogue, _á la mode_, genteel,

smart.

Styx, n. Associated Words: Stygian, Charon.

suasion, n. persuasion, inducement.

suave, a. urbane, courteous, debonair, bland, affable.

suavity, n. urbanity, courtesy, affability.

subdue, v. conquer, vanquish, subject, overpower, subjugate, crush,

master, quell; tone down, soften.

subdued, a. vanquished, conquered, submissive, tame.

subject, a. exposed, liable, prone; answerable, amenable;

subservient, subordinate. Antonyms: exempt, immune, independent, free.

subject, v. subordinate, expose.

subject, n. dependant, subordinate; topic, subject matter, theme.

subjection, n. subjugation, conquest, subordination, subserviency.

sublime, a. exalted, grand, magnificent, glorious, majestic.

submerge, v. plunge, immerse, sink, submerse; overflow, flood,

deluge, inundate.

submerging, n. submergence, submersion, immersion, inundation.

submission, n. compliance, acquiescence, surrender, resignation,

obedience; meekness, submissiveness, fortitude, forbearance,

long-sufferance.

submissive, a. yielding, obedient, tractable, meek, resigned,

passive. Antonyms: insubmissive, defiant, intractable, rebellious,

refractory.

submit, v. yield, surrender, succumb, acquiesce, comply, tolerate,

stand. Antonyms: resist, rebel, disobey, revolt.

subservient, a. subordinate, subject, inferior; serviceable,

conducive.

subside, v. decrease, sink, abate, fall.

subsidence, n. decrease, abatement.

substantiate, v. verify, corroborate, confirm, prove.

substantiation, n. corroboration, confirmation, verification.

substitute, v. exchange, commute.

substitute, n. deputy, proxy, representative, agent, lieutenant,

delegate, vicar, envoy, _locum tenens_; makeshift, expedient, shift,

resource. Associated Word: vicarious.

substitution, n. exchange, commutation.

subterfuge, n. artifice, evasion, shift, sophistry, excuse.

subtile, a. rare, fine, ethereal, delicate; crafty, artful.

subtilty, n. rarity, fineness, ethereality; refinement; artifice,

craft, guile, cunning.

subtle, a. artful, cunning, sly, designing, crafty; refined,

discriminating.

subtlety, n. cunning, artfulness, guile, craftiness; discernment,

penetration.

suburbs, n. pl. environs, purlieus, outskirts, confines.

succeeding, a. subsequent, following.

success, n. prosperity, triumph, victory, good fortune.

successful, a. prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate.

succession, n. sequence, consecution; chain, line, series.

successive, a. consecutive.

successor, n. Antonym: predecessor.

succor, n. assistance, help, relief.

suck, v. imbibe, absorb; engulf.

sucker, n. shoot, tiller, scion, sprout; embolus, piston, valve.

sucker, n. (Slang) dupe, gull, cully, greenhorn; parasite, sponger,

toady.

suckling, n. lactation.--a. unweaned.

sudden, a. unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for.

sue, v. prosecute.

suffering, n. distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture,

sufferance.

sufficiency, n. enough, adequacy, competence. Antonyms:

insufficiency, inadequacy.

sufficient, a. adequate. Antonyms: insufficient, inadequate.

suffocate, v. choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke.

suffocation, n. smothering, asphyxiation.

suffrage, n. vote, assent, ballot; testimony, attestation; prayer,

petition.

sugar, n. sucrose, saccharose (cane sugar); levulose (fruit

sugar); dextrose, glucose (grape sugar); muscovado (unrefined sugar);

maltose (malt sugar); lactose (milksugar); inosite (muscle sugar);

invert sugar; cassonade (raw sugar); caramel (burnt sugar). Associated

words: sacchariferous, dextrine, sorghum, saccharify, saccharimeter,

saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharoid, saccharize.

suggest, v. allude to, hint, intimate, insinuate, propose,

recommend.

suggestion, n. intimation, hint, allusion, proposal, instance,

insinuation.

suicide, n. self-murder, self-destruction; self-murderer,

_felo-de-se_.

suit, n. wooing, courtship, addresses; prosecution, action, lawsuit;

retinue, suite; petition, solicitation, entreaty, request. Associated

words: champerty, maintenance. See lawsuit.

suit, v. fit, adapt, adjust; please, gratify, satisfy; accord,

comport, agree.

suitable, a. fitting, accordant, proper, becoming, congruous,

consistent, congruent.

suite, n. retinue, staff, train of attendants.

sulky, a. sullen, morose, surly, moody.

sullen, a. morose, unamiable, sulky, intractable.

sulphur, n. brimstone.

sulphuric acid. oil of vitriol.

sum, n. amount, total, aggregate, sum total; problem, example.

sum, v. cast up, add, compute; summarize.

summary, n. recapitulation, epitome, résumé, synopsis.

summer, n. Associated Words: æstival, æstivate, æstivation.

summing up. résumé, recapitulation, peroration.

summit, n. top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, vertex, culmination.

summoner, n. apparitor.

sum up. summarize, recapitulate.

sun, n. Sol. Associated Words:: heliography, heliometry, solar,

solstice, solarize, anthelion, parhelion, halo, heliocentric, actinometer,

actinometry, heliacal, heliograph, equinox, astronomy, astronomer,

photosphere, helioscope, heliostat, paranthelion, maculæ, Hyperion.

sun bath. insolation.

sunburnt, a. tanned, blowzy, bronzed.

Sunday, n. the Lord's day. Associated Word: dominical.

sundial, n. Associated Words: sciotheric, gnomon, gnomonics,

gnomonolcgy, style, gnomonist, dialing.

sundog, n. parhelion.

sundry, a. several, divers, various.

sunny, a. genial, pleasant, cloudless, radiant.

sunrise, n. daybreak, dawn, aurora.

sun room. solarium.

sunshade, n. parasol; awning, shade.

sun's path. ecliptic.

sun spots. faculæ.

sunstroke, n. insolation, siriasis, _coup de soleil_.

sun-worship, n. heliolatry, Sabianism.

sun-worshiper, n. heliolater.

super, n. supernumerary.

superabundance, n. redundancy, excess, surfeit, superfluity,

exuberance, plethora.

superabundant, a. superfluous, redundant, excessive, plethoric.

superb, n. magnificent, grand, august, elegant.

superfluity, n. superabundance, surplusage. See superabundance.

superfluous, a. superabundant, redundant, excessive, supernumerary.

superintendent, n. overseer, guardian, supervisor, custodian,

intendant, manager, controller, principal, curator, warden.

superior, a. more excellent, surpassing, paramount, predominant.

superiority, n. predominancy, preëminence, ascendency, supremacy.

supernatural, a. miraculous, preternatural, hyperphysical.

supersede, v. replace, displace, supplant.

supine, a. negligent, heedless, listless, indolent, careless.

supplant, v. remove, displace, supersede.

supple, a. flexible, pliant, lithe. See flexible.

supplement, n. continuation, appendix, postscript, addition,

addendum.

supply, v. furnish, afford, yield, replenish, recruit, stock.

support, v. prop, brace, bolster, uphold, sustain; maintain, keep,

provide for; verify, substantiate, ratify, corroborate, confirm;

vindicate, defend, maintain; second, back, aid. Antonyms: desert,

undermine, weaken, repudiate, oppose.

support, n. prop, buttress, brace, fulcrum, bolster, stanchion,

shore, staddle, supporter; maintenance, sustenance, subsistence, finding,

livelihood; base, foundation, basis; assistance, espousal, advocacy,

countenance; Caryatid. Antonyms: nonsupport, opposition, desertion,

repudiation.

supporter, n. advocate, adherent, defender, pillar, paraclete,

sustainer, upholder, support.

suppose, v. assume, conjecture, presume, imagine, believe, imply,

surmise.

supposed, a. assumed, presumed, putative.

supposition, n. hypothesis, conjecture, surmise, assumption,

presumption, postulate.

suppositional, a. hypothetical, conjectural, supposed, assumed.

suppress, v. quell, overpower, put down; check, repress, restrain;

secrete, conceal.

suppression, n. quelling, overthrow; repression, restraint;

concealment, secretion.

supreme, a. transcendent, preëminent, superlative, paramount,

predominant.

surcingle, n. girth.

sure, a. certain, inevitable; positive, confident, assured, sanguine,

convinced; unfailing, infallible, unerring, inerrable, abiding, stable,

trustworthy, reliable, dependable, secure, safe. Antonyms: uncertain,

doubtful, dubious.

sureness, n. certainty, inevitability, assurance, certitude, safety,

positiveness.

surety, n. sureness, certainty; security, pledge, guaranty; bondsman;

substitute, hostage; sponsor; ratification, corroboration.

surface, n. exterior, outside, superficies.

surfeit, n. fullness, repletion, satiety; superabundance, plethora.

surgeon's case of instruments. tweese.

surgery, n. aciurgy.

surly, a. morose, sullen, crabbed, unamiable, gruff, inurbane,

snarling, crusty.

surmise, v. suppose, conjecture, suspect, guess, opine.

surmise, n. supposition, conjecture, guess, suspicion.

surmount, v. overtop; conquer, overcome, vanquish.

surmountable, a. superable, conquerable. Antonyms:

insuperable, unsurmountable.

surname, n. patronymic, cognomen.

surpass, v. excel, exceed, outdo, outstrip, transcend.

surpassing, a. exceeding, superior, preëminent, transcendent,

supereminent.

surplus, n. surplusage, excess, overplus, residue, remainder.

surprise, v. amaze, astonish, astound.

surprise, n. amazement, astonishment.

surprising, a. astonishing, amazing, astounding, marvelous.

surrender, v. relinquish, yield, abandon, capitulate, waive, remit.

surrender, n. relinquishment, capitulation, yielding.

surround, v. enclose, encircle, encompass, environ, hem in, corral,

invest, intrench.

surrounding, a. circumambient, encompassing, encircling ambient,

enveloping.

surroundings, n. pl. environment, entourage.

surveying, n. survey, chorometry; geodesy. Associated Words:

theodolite, transit, perambulator.

susceptible, a. sensitive, impressionable, impressible, tender.

suspect, v. mistrust, distrust, doubt; conjecture, surmise.

suspenders, n. pl. gallowses, braces.

suspense, n. uncertainty, wavering, hesitation, irresolution.

suspension, n. pendency; delay, respite, postponement, abeyance.

suspicion, n. mistrust, misgiving, distrust; surmise, conjecture,

supposition; (Colloq.) suggestion, hint.

swag, n. (Slang) booty, boodle, loot, plunder, spoil.

swaggering, n. blustering, boasting, roistering.

swallow, v. ingurgitate; gulp, bolt, engorge, englut; ingulf, suck

in, absorb, submerge, engulf, overwhelm; accept, believe, credit;

appropriate, arrogate, monopolize, engross; bear, brook, tolerate, pocket.

swallowing, n. deglutition, ingurgitation, absorption. Antonym:

aglutition.

swamp, n. marsh, morass, slough, quagmire, bog, fen, marish.

Associated Words: paludine, paludinous, paludism, paludose, palustrine,

draco, muck, effluvium, malaria, miasma.

swamp, v. engulf, overwhelm, submerge.

swampy, a. boggy, fenny, marshy, sloughy, slumpy, queachy.

swan, n. cob (male); cygnet (young).

swap, v. (Colloq.) exchange, trade.

swarm, v. teem.

swarming, a. teeming.

swashing, a. heavy, violent, crushing.

sway, n. dominion, domination, rule.

swear, v. blaspheme, curse, imprecate, use profane language.

swearing, n. profanity, oath, blasphemy, expletive, cursing,

imprecation.

sweat, v. perspire; exude.

sweat, n. perspiration; exudation. Associated Words: sudoriferous,

sudoral, sudorific, sudatory, diaphoretic, diaphoresis, perspiratory,

empasm, bagnio, adiophoretic.

sweating-bath, n. sudatory, sudatorium, vapor-bath.

Swedish Parliament. Riksdag.

sweet, a. saccharine, honeyed, sugary, nectarean, ambrosial,

nectareous; dulcet, melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, silvery,

symphonious, tuneful; winsome, winning. Antonyms: bitter, acrid, tart,

sour.

sweetbread, n. pancreas.

sweeten, v. dulcify, edulcorate; purify, disinfect, fumigate,

deodorize.

sweetening, n. dulcification, edulcoration.

sweetheart, n. (male) lover, inamorato, beau, flame, spark, swain,

suitor; (female) ladylove, mistress, inamorata, dulcinea, darling,

flame, amaryllis.

sweets, n. pl. confectionery, sweetmeats.

sweet-smelling, a. fragrant, redolent, balmy, aromatic, savory,

sweet-scented.

swell, v. distend, dilate, expand, bloat, puff up, tumefy, intumesce;

increase, augment; heave, surge; protuberate; strut, swagger.

swell, n. swelling; augmentation, increase; protuberance, bulge;

elevation, rise.

swell, a. (Slang) fashionable, elegant, distinguished,

exquisite.--n. exquisite, fop, dandy.

swelled, a. swollen, tumid, enlarged, bloated, protuberant, turgid.

swelling, n. intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance,

bump, node, blain, distention. Antonyms: subsidence, detumescence.

swelling, a. turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid; grandiloquent,

bombastic, grandiose.

swerve, v. deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside.

swift, a. fleet, rapid, fast, speedy, quick.

swiftness, n. celerity, velocity, speed, rapidity, fleetness,

quickness.

swill, n. hogwash, swillings, draff.

swimming, n. natation; dizziness, vertigo, giddiness; transnatation,

supernatation. Associated Words: natatorial, natant, natatorious,

natatorium, natatory.

swimming birds. Natatores.

swindle, n. See cheat.

swine, n. pl. hogs. Associated Word: porcine.

swing, v. oscillate, vibrate; sway, brandish, flourish, wave.

swing, n. swinging; free course, liberty, unrestraint, sweep.

swinging, n. oscillation, vibration.

swinging, a. oscillatory, oscillating, vibratory.

swipe, v. strike; (Slang) steal, pluck, snatch, purloin.

Swiss, n. Switzer, Helvetian.--a. Helvetic.

Swiss Federal Council. Bundesrath.

switch, v. whip, flog; shunt, shift.

swollen, a. tumid, tumefied, bloated, purled up.

sword, n. rapier, saber, scimiter, brand, curtana, claymore,

smallsword, glaive, broadsword, cutlass, Damascus blade, spadroon, creese.

Associated Words: scabbard, sheathe, unsheathe, forte, hilt, sheath,

foible, foil, fence, fencer, gladiatorial, gladiatorism, gladiature.

swordfight, n. fencing, swordplay.

sword of mercy. curtana.

sword player, n. fencer; gladiator.

sword-shaped, a. ensiform.

sycophancy, n. obsequiousness, fawning, truckling, servility,

sycophantism.

sycophant, n. fawner, toady, flunky, lickspittle.

sycophantic, a. obsequious, fawning, adulatory, servile.

syllabus, n. compendium, abstract, synopsis.

symbolic, a. typical, emblematical.

symbolize, v. typify, emblematize.

symmetry, n. proportion, shapeliness. Antonyms: asymmetry,

disproportion.

sympathetic, a. compassionate, commiserating, pitiful, kind, tender.

sympathize, v. have sympathy, commiserate, condole with; agree, be in

accord.

sympathy, n. fellow-feeling, tenderness; pity, commiseration,

compassion, condolence; accord, agreement, rapport, concord. Antonyms:

antipathy, incompassion, inclemency, disagreement, incompatibility.

symptom, n. indication, mark, sign, evidence, diagnostic. Associated

words: symptomatic, rymptomatology, semeiology, semeiotic, semeiography,

pathognomonic, diagnosticate, diagnosis.

synopsis, n. syllabus, compendium, abstract, summary, epitome,

digest.

system, n. method, order. Antonyms: chaos, confusion, disorder.

systematic, a. methodical, orderly. Antonyms: unsystematic,

chaotic, immethodical.

systematize, v. methodize, classify.

T

Tab, n. (Colloq.) account, reckoning, check, tally, score.

table, n. tablet; schedule, synopsis, index, list; trivet

(three-legged table). Associated word: mensal.

table, v. tabulate, tabularize.

tableland, n. plateau, mesa (Southwestern U.S.).

table linen. napery.

tablet, n. lozenge, troche, trochiscus.

taboo, n. interdiction, prohibition, proscription.

taboo, v. interdict, prohibit, proscribe.

taboo, a. prohibited, forbidden, interdicted, proscribed.

tackle, n. gear, implements, equipment, rigging, apparatus.

tacky, a. sticky, adhesive; (Colloq.) dowdy, shabby, unkempt,

seedy.

tadpole, n. polliwog.

taffy, n. toffy, candy; (Slang) flattery, blandishment, blarney.

tail, n. Associated Words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate,

bicaudal, rump, uropygium.

tailless, a. acaudate, anurous.

tailor, n. Associated Word: sartorial.

tailpiece, n. appendage.

taint, v. imbue, impregnate, corrupt, infect, vitiate, sully,

besmirch, discolor, contaminate.

taint, n. infection, contamination, vitiation, defilement, pollution.

tainted, a. infected, contaminated, defiled, imbued, vitiated,

polluted.

take, v. seize, grasp, clutch, procure, clasp, catch; confiscate,

appropriate, usurp, arrogate; deprehend, apprehend; require, need; select,

choose.

take back. recant, retract, recall, revoke, rescind, disavow, resume.

take in. comprise, encompass, comprehend, include, embrace.

take-in, n. (Colloq.) imposition, fraud, deception, swindle, cheat,

hoax.

taken, p.p. charmed, captivated, enamored, fascinated.

take off. doff, remove, divest one's self of.

take-off, n. caricature, burlesque, travesty, parody.

take the place of. supplant, supersede, displace, substitute.

take upon one's self. assume, undertake; arrogate, usurp.

taking, a. alluring, fascinating, winning, charming, captivating.

taking, n. seizure, apprehension; reprisal; prehension.

taking back. recantation, retraction, resumption, disavowal,

revocation.

tale, n. story, romance, parable, apologue, legend, fable,

narrative, myth, jeremiad (tale of sorrow).

tale-bearer, n. scandal-monger, busybody, quidnunc, tattler,

telltale, tabby, gossip.

talent, n. endowment, faculty, gift, forte, knack, genius.

talented, a. gifted, endowed, clever.

talk, v. speak, converse, confer, confabulate, consult; babble,

prattle, prate, chatter, gabble, gibber, blather; expatiate, descant,

comment, harp, rant; palaver.

talk, n. conversation, converse, colloquy, conference, confabulation,

chat, parley, _causerie_, parlance, confab; dialogue, interlocution;

soliloquy, monologue; palaver, buncombe, blarney, blandishment, flattery,

flummery; chaff, banter, raillery, persiflage, badinage, asteistn;

chatter, babble, chit chat, gibberish, jargon, twaddle, fustian,

moonshine, hanky-panky, jabbering, rhapsody, rant, grandiloquence;

expatiation, descant.

talkative, a. garrulous, loquacious, communicative, voluble,

unreserved. Antonyms: reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, silent,

still.

talkativeness, n. garrulity, loquacity, communicativeness

multiloquence. Antonyms: reserve, reticence, taciturnity.

talker, n. conversationalist; interlocutor; chatterer, babler,

magpie, chatterbox.

tall, a. lofty, high, towering.

tally, n. mate, match, counterpart; score, account, record.

tally, v. match, conform, agree, correspond, coincide, square,

comport, accord.

tame, v. domesticate, reclaim, break; discipline, subjugate, conquer,

repress.

tame, a. docile, domesticated, gentle; prosy, dull, vapid;

submissive, subdued.

tamper, v. meddle, tinker.

tangible, a. palpable, tactile, material; substantial, evident,

perceptible, obvious.

tangle, v. snarl, entangle, interweave; embroil, insnare, entrap,

involve, perplex, enmesh. Antonyms: disentangle, unravel, extricate.

tangle, n. snarl, complication, intricacy; imbroglio, perplexity.

Antonyms: disentanglement, extrication.

tangled, a. entangled, complicated, tangly, snarled, intricate,

involved.

tank, n. reservoir, vat.

tantalize, v. torment, plague, vex, disappoint.

tap, n. stopper, plug, spigot, spile, faucet.

tap, v. broach.

tape needle. bodkin.

tapering, a. conical, taper, pyramidal, fusiform.

tapeworms, n. pl. tænia. Associated Words: tæniafuge, tæniacide,

tænioid, tæniid, proglottis, segment, cysticercus, cestode, measles.

tardy, a. slow, sluggish; dilatory, reluctant, behindhand, late.

Antonyms: punctual, prompt.

tarnish, v. dim, sully, besmirch, blacken, deface.

task, n. work, labor, assignment, stint; study, lesson, exercise.

taste, n. tasting gustation, degustation; flavor, savor, tang, race,

relish, _goût_, saporosity, sapor, gusto, gust, sapidity; liking,

fondness, appetite, appetency; tincture, infusion, dash, _soupçon_;

discernment, discrimination; foretaste, prelibation. Antonyms:

dowdiness, tawdriness, distaste vulgarity. Associated Words: gustatory,

saporific.

tasteful, a. palatable, savory, relishable, toothsome, gustable,

delicious.

tasteless, a. insipid, flat, unpalatable, vapid.

tastelessness, n. insipidity, vapidity.

tasty, a. tasteful, neat. Antonyms: dowdy, tawdry, meretricious,

inartistic.

tattle, v. tell, divulge, blab, peach.

tattler, n. tale-bearer, gossip, quidnunc, news-monger, busybody.

taunt, v. ridicule, deride, mock, reproach, revile, jeer twit, gibe.

taunt, n. ridicule, derision, jeer, reproach, gibe, quip, quirk.

taunting, a. reviling, derisive, jeering, sarcastic.

tawdry, a. gaudy, meretricious, showy, flashy, inelegant.

tax, n. assessment, toll, excise, levy, tribute, custom, duty,

impost; capitation, poll-tax; charge, exaction.

tax, v. assess; exact, demand, task.

taxable, a. assessable.

tea, n. Associated Words: theine, thea, theism, samovar, caddy,

theiform, maté, canister, cabaret, tannin.

teach, v. instruct, inform, educate, discipline, train, indoctrinate,

school, enlighten, drill, tutor, instill, inculcate, coach.

teachable, a. docile, tractable, apt, bright.

teacher, n. instructor, tutor, master, pedagogue, preceptor,

preceptress, governess, coach, usher, mentor; pl. faculty.

teaching, n. instruction, education, breeding, enlightenment,

inculcation, tuition, tutoring, indoctrination. Associated Words:

pedagogy, pedagogics, didactics, paideutics, propædeutics, didactic,

instructive, propædeutic, pædeutic, pedagogic, pedagogism, didacticism.

team, n. span, pair.

tear, n. rent, fissure, rip.

tear, v. rend, rip, lacerate, dilacerate, sunder, dismember; fume,

rage, rave, rant, storm.

tearful, a. lachrymose, weeping, maudlin.

tearing, n. rending, laceration, lancination, ripping, dismemberment.

tears, n. pl. Associated Words: lachrymal, lachrymation,

lachrymatory, lachrymals, lachrymiform, lachrymary.

tease, v. torment, plague, tantalize, hector, taunt, harass, badger.

teat, n. nipple, pap, dug, mammilla.

tedious, a. tiresome, wearisome, irksome, humdrum, monotonous.

tedium, n. tediousness, humdrum.

teem, v. multiply, be prolific, abound, overflow, swarm.

teeming, a. prolific, abounding, replete, overflowing, rife.

teeter, v. seesaw, titter, titter-totter.

teeth, n. pl. biters, incisors, molars, bicuspids, grinders, tusks,

wisdom teeth, eye teeth, canine teeth, fangs. Associated Words:

odontology, dentist, dentistry, dental, odontography, dentiloquy, denture,

cement, tartar, pyorrhea, gnash, alveoli, corona, dentifrice, dentilave,

pulp, dentiform, dentilation, cusp, overshot.

teething, n. dentition, odontiasis.

teetotaler, n. nephalist, total abstainer.

teetotalism, n. nephalism, abstinence (from spirituous liquors),

temperance.

tell, v. mention, recount, relate, narrate, enumerate, advise,

inform, recite, disclose, bruit, divulge, proclaim, expose, apprise,

peach, communicate, acquaint, notify, reveal, discern. Antonyms:

suppress, reserve, withhold, forbear.

telling, n. notification, apprising, communication, relation,

narration, recital, divulgement.

telling, a. effective, cogent, potent, conclusive.

telltale, n. tattler.

temerity, n. audacity, boldness, presumption, recklessness,

foolhardiness, rashness.

temper, v. qualify, modify, moderate, appease; anneal.

temper, n. mood, disposition, humor; passion.

temperament, n. constitution, nature, temper, disposition.

temperance, n. sobriety, nephalism, moderation.

temperate, a. moderate; dispassionate, calm; abstemious, sober,

self-denying.

tempest, n. storm, tumult, commotion, disturbance.

tempestuous, a. See stormy.

temple, n. fane, church, sanctuary, tabernacle; teocalli, pagoda,

mosque, hieron, marai.

temporal, a. secular, worldly; temporary; political, civil.

temporary, a. transitory, transient, temporal, impermanent,

ephemeral, fleeting.

tempt, v. seduce, entice, decoy, allure, induce; provoke, incite,

instigate.

temptation, n. seduction, allurement, enticement, attraction; decoy,

lure, bait, inducement.

tempter, n. seducer, siren, Circe.

tempting, a. enticing, alluring, seductive.

ten, n. Associated Words: decimal, decimate, decimation, denary,

decemvir, decemvirate.

tenacious, a. retentive; cohesive, tough; pertinacious, persistent.

tenacity, n. retentiveness; cohesiveness, toughness; pertinacity,

persistency.

tend, v. conduce, contribute; attend, accompany, guard; incline,

lean.

tendency, n. drift, inclination, proclivity, proneness, propensity,

bent, predisposition.

tender, a. delicate, fragile, sensitive, susceptible; pathetic,

touching, plaintive; sympathetic, pitiful, compassionate, kind.

Antonyms: tough, strong.

tender, n. attendant; offer, proposal, overture, proposition.

tender, v. offer, present, proffer, propose.

ten dollars. eagle.

tent, n. pavilion, tabernacle, marquee, tilt, wigwam, tepee; pl.

tentage.

tenth, n. tithe, tithing; decimal.

ten thousand. myriad. Associated Word: myriarch.

ten years. decade, decennium, decennary. Associated Words:

decennial, decennially.

terms, n. pl. stipulations, conditions; terminology, nomenclature.

terrace, n. esplanade, plateau.

terrible, a. dreadful, formidable, shocking, horrible, frightful,

dire, grewsome, nefarious; (Colloq.) severe, extreme, excessive,

immoderate.

terrify, v. appall, intimidate, daunt, horrify, alarm, shock,

frighten.

territory, n. province, region, district.

terror, n. alarm, consternation, dismay, panic, fright, affright.

test, n. trial, ordeal; standard, touchstone, criterion; crucible.

test, v. try, prove, assay.

testicles, n. pl. testes. Associated Words: castrate, castration,

testicular, emasculate, alter, geld, spade, eunuch, varicocele, scrotum,

orchitis, suspensory, orchotomy, sarcocele, hydrocele, parorchis,

orchialgia, orchic, spermatic, semen, monorchism, epididymis,

gubernaculum, gonad.

testify, v. depose, attest, asseverate, verify.

testimonial, n. credential, certificate, voucher.

testimony, n. attestation, deposition, corroboration; witness,

evidence.

testy, a. irritable, choleric, captious.

tetter, n. ringworm, herpes, fret.

text, n. passage, pericope; subject, topic, theme.

texture, n. fabric, web; grain, structure, contexture.

thankful, a. grateful.

thankfulness, n. gratitude. Antonyms: unthankfulness, ingratitude.

thankless, a. unthankful, ungrateful; unacceptable, unappreciated.

thanks, n. pl. gramercy (many thanks).

theater, n. playhouse; odeon, lyceum; arena, stage, scene, field.

theatrical, a. dramatic, histrionic, scenic; stagy, artificial.

theft, n. See stealing.

theory, n. hypothesis.

thick, a. dense, coagulated, crass, gross, inspissate, inspissated,

grumous, incrassated; compact, turbid, roily, feculent, muddy; (Colloq.)

intimate, confidential.

thicken, v. coagulate, condense, inspissate, curdle, concrete,

incrassate.

thickening, a. inspissant.

thickening, n. inspissation, condensation, coagulation, incrassation.

thicket, n. shrubbery, copse, chaparral, grove, boscage, bosk,

spinny, coppice.

thick-headed, a. pachycephalic, pachycephalous; dull, stupid,

doltish.

thicklip, n. blobberlip.

thickness, n. denseness, density, compactness; grossness, crassitude,

consistence; intimacy. Associated Words: pachometer, pachymeter.

thick-skinned, a. pachydermatous; obtuse, dull, unimpressible.

thick-tongued, a. pachyglossal, crassilingual.

thief, n. robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator; embezzler, defaulter,

peculator; plagiarist; poacher; shoplifter; kleptomaniac.

thievery, n. theft, larceny; embezzlement, peculation; shoplifting.

thievish, a. light-fingered, pilfering, predatory; stealthy,

sneaking.

thill, n. shaft (of a vehicle).

thin, a. emaciated, slender, poor, wasted, peaked, gaunt, scrawny,

lank, spare, meager, haggard, scraggy; tenuous, delicate, fine; incompact;

dilute, rare, rarefied, subtile, attenuated; sheer, flimsy, sleazy,

unsubstantial, gossamery, gauzy, diaphanous, transparent; sparse, scanty;

inadequate, insufficient, superficial.

thin, v. dilute, reduce, attenuate, rarefy, diminish, subtilize.

thing, n. object, article.

things, n. pl. (Colloq.) clothes, furniture, appurtenances,

belongings, goods, luggage, accessories, chattels, effects, traps,

impedimenta (Mil.), paraphernalia.

think, v. meditate, cogitate, ponder, contemplate, brood, reflect,

muse, consider, speculate, ruminate, opine, deem, apprehend, excogitate,

infer, surmise, mull.

thinkable, a. conceivable, cogitable, imaginable, presumable.

thinking, a. rational, pensive, reflective, contemplative,

cogitative, introspective.

thinking, n. cogitation, meditation, contemplation, thought.

thinness, n. emaciation, slenderness, gauntness, spareness,

meagerness; tenuity, delicacy, fineness; incompactness; rarity, subtilty,

subtilization; inadequacy, sparseness, scantiness.

thinning, n. dilution, reduction, attenuation, rarefaction,

subtilization. Associated Words: attenuant, diluent.

thin-skinned, a. leptodermic; sensitive, impressible, irritable.

third, a. tertiary.

thirst, n. dryness, aridity, drought. Antonym: adipsy. Associated

words: slake, quench, dipsetic, adipsous.

thirty years. Associated Words: tricennial, tricennially.

thorn, n. spine, prickle, brier; torment, plague, infliction.

thornless, a. spineless, inermis.

thorny, a. spiny, briery, prickly; vexatious, troublesome, annoying.

thorough, a. complete, profound. Antonyms: superficial, cursory,

partial, sciolistic.

thought, n. reflection, cogitation, revery, musing, meditation,

consideration, abstraction, imagination, brown study, contemplation,

deliberation, introspection, retrospection, lucubration, rumination,

preoccupation, excogitation; idea, concept, surmise, inference.

thoughtful, a. contemplative, meditative, reflective, cogitative,

wistful, pensive, preoccupied, abstracted; considerate, heedful,

circumspect, wary.

thoughtless, a. inconsiderate, careless, unmindful, remiss, rash,

inadvertent, indiscreet, heedless, unreasoning.

thousand, n. Associated Words: millennium, millennial, chiliad,

chiliasm, chiliarchy, chiliarch, chiliast, millenary, millesimal.

thrash, v. thresh.

thread, n. filament, fibre, stamen, staple, pile, raveling, lint,

warp, woof, thrum.--v. thrid.

threadbare, a. napless, pileworn, seedy, trite, hackneyed.

threat, n. menace, threatening, commination, fulmination,

intimidation.

threaten, v. menace; augur, forebode, portend; impend, be imminent.

threatening, a. imminent, ominous, impending, minatory, fulminating.

three, n. trio, trinity, triad, ternary, ternion; triplets.

Associated Words: thrice, treble, trialogue, triarchy, triplicate,

triplication, triplicity, trinal, triarchy, tripartition, tripod,

triptych, trisect, trisection, trireme, triumvirate, trilogy, triform,

triformity, trilling, trilemma.

three-colored, a. tricolored.

three-flowered, a. trifloral, triflorous.

threefold, a. triple.

three-forked, a. trisulcate, trifurcated.

three hundred years. tricentenary. Associated Words: tercentenary,

tricentenary, tri-centennial.

three languages. Associated Word: trilingual.

three-leaved, a. trifoliate, trifoliated.

three-legged stand. trivet, tripod.

three letters. triphthong, trigraph.

three months. trimester. Associated Words: trimestral, trimestrial,

quarterly.

three-parted, a. tripartite.

three-pointed, a. tricuspidate, tricuspid.

three-pointed spear. trident.

three-sided, a. triangular, trilateral.

three-sided figure. triangle.

three-toothed a. trident, tridentate.

three years. triennium. Associated Words: triennial, triennially.

threshold, n. doorsill.

thrift, n. frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence; prosperity.

thriftless, a. wasteful, improvident, extravagant, prodigal.

thrifty, a. sparing, economical, provident, frugal; thriving,

prosperous; luxuriant.

thrilling, a. moving, exciting, sensational.

thrive, v. flourish, prosper.

thriving, a. flourishing, thrifty, prosperous.

throat, n. pharynx, fauces; gullet, esophagus. Associated Words:

guttural, gutturalize, gargle, faucal, laryngeal, glottis, pharyngeal,

pharyngotomy, larynx.

throb, n. beating, pulsation, palpitation.--v. palpitate,

pulsate, beat.

throbbing, a. pulsating, palpitant, palpitating.

throne, n. sovereignty. Associated Words: enthrone, dethrone,

dorsal, abdicate, abdication, interregnum, accession, accede.

throw, v. pitch, hurl, fling, cast, toss, sling, heave; overturn,

prostrate, floor.

throw away. squander; reject, decline, refuse.

throw by. discard.

throw in. inject; contribute.

throwing, n. Associated Words: missile, putting.

throwing out. ejection, expulsion; eviction; ejaculation.

throwing overboard. jettison.

throw off. expel; reject, discard, abandon.

throw out. expel, evict, oust, reject; emit; discharge, excrete,

eject, egest, void, ejaculate, eliminate. Antonym: retain.

throw up. resign; vomit, puke, disgorge.

thrush, n. aphtha.

thrust, n. push, shove, allonge, stab, protrusion.

thrust, v. push, force, impel, shove, stab, pierce, protrude.

thug, n. ruffian, rough, assassin.

thunder, n. Associated Words: brontology, Thor, brontorneter,

brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia.

thunder, n. fulmination, denunciation.--v. fulminate, denounce.

thunder, v. detonate, roll, boom.

thundering, n. fulmination.--a. fulminatory.

thunderstruck, n. dumfounded, astounded, amazed.

thwart, v. frustrate, baffle, foil, balk, contravene.

tickle, v. titillate; please, delight, gladden.

tickling, n. titillation.--a. titillative.

ticklish, a. difficult, critical, delicate.

tidbit, n. delicacy, dainty, junket.

tide, n. Associated Words: ebb, flood, flow, marigray, marigram.

tidy, a. orderly, neat, trim.

tie, v. secure, fasten, bind, tether, leash. tie, n. knot,

fastening; bond, obligation; (R.R.) sleeper, crosstie.

tight, a. taut, tense; snug, close-fitting; (Colloq.) close,

penurious, stingy, parsimonious; (Colloq.) stringent; (Slang) tipsy,

boozy, fuddled, intoxicated, drunk.

tighten, v. straiten.

tile, n. Associated Words: tegular, mosaic, tessellated, parquetry.

till, v. cultivate.

tillable, a. arable, cultivable.

tilt, v. slant, slope, incline, tip, cant.

time, n. duration; while, spell, season, interval, interim, lapse,

interregnum, period; season, opportunity, leisure; tense; (Mus.)

measure, tempo; perpetuity; usance; age, date, eon, epoch, era, term.

Associated Words: horology, horography, horometry, chronology,

chronological, anachronism, anachronistic, synchronology, synchronal,

synchronous, synchronism, synchronize, synchroncity, chronometry,

gnomonics, contemporaneous, coexistent, coexistence, contemporary,

contemporaneity, simultaneous, simultaneousness, concurrence, coincident,

coincidence, gnomon, coincide, isochronal, isochronism, isochronon,

isochronous, anachronous, prochronism, chronogram, chronic, coeval,

coetaneous.

timely, a. seasonable, punctual, opportune. Antonyms: untimely,

inopportune.

timepiece, n. time-keeper, chronometer, horologe, clock, watch,

hourglass, chronograph, chronoscope, clepsydra, gnomon, repeater, sundial,

isochronon.

time-server, n. temporizer, trimmer.

time-serving, a. temporizing, trimming.

timid, a. timorous, shy, diffident, meticulous, faint-hearted,

cowardly.

timidity, n. diffidence, shyness, timorousness, cowardice.

tin, n. _stannum_; latten, prillion. Associated Words: stannary,

stannic, stanniferous, stannous, shadd.

tin mine. stannary.

tinsel, a. glittering, meretricious, specious, flashy.

tinsel, n. spangle, pinchbeck, glitter, tawdriness.

tinsmith, n. whitesmith, tinner.

tintype, n. ferrotype, stannotype.