requisite(n) - essential; necessary; necessity; requirement;anything indispensable;
  #2 (adj sat) - needed; needful; required;necessary for relief or supply;
resemblance(n) - similarity in appearance or external or superficial details;
resent(v) - feel bitter or indignant about;
  #2 (v) - begrudge;wish ill or allow unwillingly;
reservation(n) - the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion;
  #2 (n) - booking;the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group);
  #3 (n) - arriere pensee; mental reservation;an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly;
  #4 (n) - something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.);
  #5 (n) - qualification;a statement that limits or restricts some claim;
  #6 (n) - the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance;
  #7 (n) - reserve;a district that is reserved for particular purpose;
reside(v) - lodge in; occupy;live (in a certain place);
  #2 (v) - domicile; domiciliate; shack;make one's home in a particular place or community;
  #3 (v) - repose; rest;be inherent or innate in;

residential(adj) - used or designed for residence or limited to residences;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to or connected with residence;
residual(n) - a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing;
  #2 (n) - balance; remainder; residue; residuum; rest;something left after other parts have been taken away;
  #3 (adj) - residuary;relating to or indicating a remainder;
resignation(n) - a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign;
  #2 (n) - the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.);
  #3 (n) - surrender;acceptance of despair;
resolute(adj sat) - unhesitating;characterized by quickness and firmness;
  #2 (adj) - firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination;
resonance(n) - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities;
  #2 (n) - plangency; reverberance; ringing; sonority; sonorousness; vibrancy;having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant;
  #3 (n) - a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system;
  #4 (n) - an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation;
  #5 (n) - rapport;a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people;

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resourceful(adj sat) - having inner resources; adroit or imaginative;
resourcefulness(n) - the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation;
  #2 (n) - imagination; resource;the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems;
respectability(n) - reputability;honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation;
respectable(adj sat) - goodish; goodly; healthy; hefty; sizable; sizeable; tidy;large in amount or extent or degree;
  #2 (adj sat) - estimable; good; honorable;deserving of esteem and respect;
  #3 (adj) - characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals;
respectful(adj) - full of or exhibiting respect;
  #2 (adj sat) - reverential; venerating;feeling or manifesting veneration;

respiration(n) - cellular respiration; internal respiration;the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs;
  #2 (n) - breathing; external respiration; ventilation;the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation;
  #3 (n) - a single complete act of breathing in and out;
restoration(n) - regaining; restitution; return;getting something back again;
  #2 (n) - the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state;
  #3 (n) - the re-establishment of the British monarchy in 1660;
  #4 (n) - a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.;
  #5 (n) - some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed;
  #6 (n) - refurbishment; renovation;the state of being restored to its former good condition;
  #7 (n) - the reign of Charles II in England; 1660-1685;
restorative(n) - corrective;a device for treating injury or disease;
  #2 (n) - tonic;a medicine that strengthens and invigorates;
  #3 (adj sat) - recuperative;promoting recuperation;
  #4 (adj sat) - renewing; revitalising; revitalizing; reviving;tending to impart new life and vigor to;
restrictive(adj sat) - protective of national interests by restricting imports;
  #2 (adj) - serving to restrict;
resultant(n) - vector sum;a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors;
  #2 (n) - final result; outcome; result; termination;something that results;
  #3 (n) - end point;the final point in a process;
  #4 (adj sat) - accompanying; attendant; concomitant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; sequent;following or accompanying as a consequence;

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retail(n) - the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale;
  #2 (v) - sell on the retail market;
  #3 (v) - be sold at the retail level;
  #4 (adv) - at a retail price;
retard(n) - changeling; cretin; half-wit; idiot; imbecile; moron;a person of subnormal intelligence;
  #2 (v) - cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate;
  #3 (v) - decelerate; slow; slow down; slow up;lose velocity; move more slowly;
  #4 (v) - check; delay;slow the growth or development of;
  #5 (v) - be delayed;
retirement(n) - retreat;withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation;
  #2 (n) - withdrawal from your position or occupation;
  #3 (n) - the state of being retired from one's business or occupation;
retort(n) - a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat;
  #2 (n) - comeback; counter; rejoinder; replication; return; riposte;a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);
  #3 (v) - come back; rejoin; repay; return; riposte;answer back;
reunion(n) - reunification;the act of coming together again;
  #2 (n) - a party of former associates who have come together again;

revenue(n) - gross; receipts;the entire amount of income before any deductions are made;
  #2 (n) - tax income; tax revenue; taxation;government income due to taxation;
reverend(n) - a title of respect for a clergyman;
  #2 (n) - clergyman; man of the cloth;a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church;
  #3 (adj sat) - sublime;worthy of adoration or reverence;
reversion(n) - backsliding; lapse; lapsing; relapse; relapsing; reverting;a failure to maintain a higher state;
  #2 (n) - regress; regression; retrogression; retroversion;returning to a former state;
  #3 (n) - reversal; reverse; turnabout; turnaround;turning in the opposite direction;
  #4 (n) - atavism; throwback;a reappearance of an earlier characteristic;
  #5 (n) - a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation);
  #6 (n) - an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee);
revision(n) - alteration;the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification);
  #2 (n) - rescript; rewrite;something that has been written again;
  #3 (n) - rescript; revisal; revise;the act of rewriting something;
revival(n) - resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revivification;bringing again into activity and prominence;
  #2 (n) - revival meeting;an evangelistic meeting intended to reawaken interest in religion;

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revive(v) - come to; resuscitate;return to consciousness;
  #2 (v) - animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revivify; vivify;give new life or energy to;
  #3 (v) - resuscitate;cause to regain consciousness;
  #4 (v) - resurrect;restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state;
  #5 (v) - be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength;
revolve(v) - roll;cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis;
  #2 (v) - orb; orbit;move in an orbit;
  #3 (v) - go around; rotate;turn on or around an axis or a center;
revolver(n) - six-gun; six-shooter;a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets);
  #2 (n) - revolving door;a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings;
ridicule(n) - derision;the act of deriding or treating with contempt;
  #2 (n) - language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate;
  #3 (v) - blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; roast;subject to laughter or ridicule;
rinse(n) - washing lightly without soap;
  #2 (n) - the act of giving a light tint to the hair;
  #3 (n) - rinsing;the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing;
  #4 (n) - a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint;
  #5 (v) - gargle;rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash;
  #6 (v) - wash;clean with some chemical process;
  #7 (v) - rinse off;wash off soap or remaining dirt;

ripple(n) - riffle; rippling; wavelet;a small wave on the surface of a liquid;
  #2 (n) - an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value;
  #3 (v) - cockle; riffle; ruffle; undulate;stir up (water) so as to form ripples;
  #4 (v) - babble; bubble; burble; guggle; gurgle;flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;
rite(n) - ritual;any customary observance or practice;
  #2 (n) - religious rite;an established ceremony prescribed by a religion;
ritual(n) - stereotyped behavior;
  #2 (n) - rite;any customary observance or practice;
  #3 (n) - the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies;
  #4 (adj) - of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals;
  #5 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals;
rivet(n) - heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together;
  #2 (n) - stud;ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt);
  #3 (v) - center; centre; concentrate; focus; pore;direct one's attention on something;
  #4 (v) - hold (someone's attention);
  #5 (v) - fasten with a rivet or rivets;
robe(n) - gown;outerwear consisting of a long flowing garment used for official or ceremonial occasions;
  #2 (n) - any loose flowing garment;
  #3 (v) - vest;clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes;
  #4 (v) - cloak; clothe; drape;cover as if with clothing;

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rocky(adj sat) - rough;full of hardship or trials;
  #2 (adj sat) - bouldered; bouldery; stony;abounding in rocks or stones;
  #3 (adj) - bumpy; jolting; jolty; jumpy; rough;causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements;
  #4 (adj sat) - liable to rock;
rooster(n) - cock;adult male chicken;
rotor(n) - rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils;
  #2 (n) - rotor coil;the rotating armature of a motor or generator;
  #3 (n) - the revolving bar of a distributor;
ruble(n) - rouble;the basic unit of money in Russia;
  #2 (n) - the basic unit of money in Tajikistan;
ruby(n) - crimson; deep red;a deep and vivid red color;
  #2 (n) - a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem;
  #3 (n) - a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers;
  #4 (adj sat) - blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet;of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;

rugged(adj) - sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring;
  #2 (adj sat) - tough;very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution;
  #3 (adj sat) - broken;topographically very uneven;
  #4 (adj) - furrowed;having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface;
rumble(n) - gang fight;a fight between rival gangs of adolescents;
  #2 (n) - a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage;
  #3 (n) - grumble; grumbling; rumbling;a loud low dull continuous noise;
  #4 (v) - growl; grumble;to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds;
  #5 (v) - grumble;make a low noise;
rundown(n) - summation; summing up;a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court);
rupture(n) - the act of making a sudden noisy break;
  #2 (n) - breach; break; falling out; rift; severance;a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
  #3 (n) - state of being torn or burst open;
  #4 (v) - bust; snap; tear;separate or cause to separate abruptly;
rustle(n) - rustling; whisper; whispering;a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind;
  #2 (v) - make a dry crackling sound;
  #3 (v) - forage food;
  #4 (v) - lift;take illegally;

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sadness(n) - gloominess; lugubriousness;the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness;
  #2 (n) - unhappiness;emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being;
  #3 (n) - sorrow; sorrowfulness;the state of being sad;
safeguard(n) - guard; precaution;a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.;
  #2 (n) - safe-conduct;a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war;
  #3 (v) - make safe;
  #4 (v) - escort safely;
saint(n) - apotheosis; ideal; nonesuch; nonpareil; nonsuch; paragon;model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal;
  #2 (n) - angel; holy man; holy person;person of exceptional holiness;
  #3 (n) - a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization;
  #4 (v) - canonise; canonize;declare (a dead person) to be a saint;
  #5 (v) - enshrine;hold sacred;
salmon(n) - any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn;
  #2 (n) - a pale pinkish orange color;
  #3 (n) - flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae;
  #4 (n) - salmon river;a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho;
  #5 (adj sat) - pinkish-orange; pink-orange;of orange tinged with pink;
saloon(n) - bar; barroom; ginmill; taproom;a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter;
  #2 (n) - gin mill; pothouse; pub; public house; taphouse;tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals;
  #3 (n) - sedan;a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors;

salty(adj) - containing or filled with salt;
  #2 (adj sat) - piquant;engagingly stimulating or provocative;
  #3 (adj sat) - one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water;
salute(n) - an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat;
  #2 (n) - military greeting;a formal military gesture of respect;
  #3 (n) - salutation;an act of honor or courteous recognition;
  #4 (v) - express commendation of;
  #5 (v) - greet in a friendly way;
  #6 (v) - present;recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position;
  #7 (v) - honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers;
  #8 (v) - drink; pledge; toast; wassail;propose a toast to;
  #9 (v) - become noticeable;
salvage(n) - the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire;
  #2 (n) - the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction;
  #3 (n) - property or goods saved from damage or destruction;
  #4 (v) - scavenge;collect discarded or refused material;
  #5 (v) - relieve; salve; save;save from ruin, destruction, or harm;
salvation(n) - redemption;the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil;
  #2 (n) - saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation;
  #3 (n) - a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness;
  #4 (n) - the state of being saved or preserved from harm;
sanction(n) - a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards;
  #2 (n) - the act of final authorization;
  #3 (n) - authorisation; authority; authorization;official permission or approval;
  #4 (n) - countenance; endorsement; imprimatur; indorsement; warrant;formal and explicit approval;
  #5 (v) - approve; o.k.; okay;give sanction to;
  #6 (v) - give religious sanction to, such as through on oath;
  #7 (v) - give authority or permission to;

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sandal(n) - a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot;
sardine(n) - any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned;
  #2 (n) - pilchard; sardina pilchardus;small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring;
  #3 (n) - pilchard;small fatty fish usually canned;
  #4 (n) - sard; sardius;a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony;
saturation(n) - the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid;
  #2 (n) - chroma; intensity; vividness;chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue;
  #3 (n) - impregnation;the process of totally saturating something with a substance;
  #4 (n) - a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence;
saturn(n) - a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun;
  #2 (n) - god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus;
scandal(n) - dirt; malicious gossip;disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people;
  #2 (n) - outrage;a disgraceful event;

scar(n) - mark; scrape; scratch;an indication of damage;
  #2 (n) - cicatrice; cicatrix;a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue;
  #3 (v) - mark; pit; pock;mark with a scar;
scarcity(n) - scarceness;a small and inadequate amount;
scarf(n) - a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration;
  #2 (n) - scarf joint;a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end;
  #3 (v) - wrap in or adorn with a scarf;
  #4 (v) - unite by a scarf joint;
  #5 (v) - masturbate while strangling oneself;
scarlet(n) - orange red; vermilion;a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge;
  #2 (adj sat) - blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy;of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;
scenic(adj sat) - used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to the stage or stage scenery;

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sceptical(adj sat) - disbelieving; skeptical; unbelieving;denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion;
  #2 (adj sat) - doubting; questioning; skeptical;marked by or given to doubt;
scoff(n) - jeer; jeering; mockery; scoffing;showing your contempt by derision;
  #2 (v) - flout;treat with contemptuous disregard;
  #3 (v) - barrack; flout; gibe; jeer;laugh at with contempt and derision;
scorch(n) - a discoloration caused by heat;
  #2 (n) - a plant disease that produces a browning or scorched appearance of plant tissues;
  #3 (n) - singe;a surface burn;
  #4 (v) - become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions;
  #5 (v) - sear;make very hot and dry;
  #6 (v) - blacken; char; sear;burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color;
  #7 (v) - destroy completely by or as if by fire;
  #8 (v) - sear; singe;become superficially burned;
scornfully(adv) - contemptuously; contumeliously; disdainfully;without respect; in a disdainful manner;
scramble(n) - scamper; scurry;rushing about hastily in an undignified way;
  #2 (n) - scuffle;an unceremonious and disorganized struggle;
  #3 (v) - make unintelligible;
  #4 (v) - beat;stir vigorously;
  #5 (v) - jumble; throw together;bring into random order;
  #6 (v) - to move hurriedly;
  #7 (v) - clamber; shin; shinny; skin; sputter; struggle;climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling;

scrap(n) - combat; fight; fighting;the act of fighting; any contest or struggle;
  #2 (n) - a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used;
  #3 (n) - bit; chip; flake; fleck;a small fragment of something broken off from the whole;
  #4 (n) - rubbish; trash;worthless material that is to be disposed of;
  #5 (v) - make into scrap or refuse;
  #6 (v) - altercate; argufy; dispute; quarrel;have a disagreement over something;
  #7 (v) - junk; trash;dispose of (something useless or old);
screech(n) - scream; screaming; screeching; shriek; shrieking;sharp piercing cry;
  #2 (n) - scream; screaming; screeching; shriek; shrieking;a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry;
  #3 (v) - screak; skreak; skreigh; squawk;utter a harsh abrupt scream;
  #4 (v) - creak; screak; skreak; squeak; whine;make a high-pitched, screeching noise;
script(n) - a particular orthography or writing system;
  #2 (n) - hand; handwriting;something written by hand;
  #3 (n) - book; playscript;a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance;
  #4 (v) - write a script for;
scripture(n) - sacred scripture;any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group;
  #2 (n) - bible; book; christian bible; good book; holy scripture; holy writ; word; word of god;the sacred writings of the Christian religions;
scrub(n) - scouring; scrubbing;the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water;
  #2 (n) - bush; chaparral;dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes;
  #3 (v) - scrub up;wash thoroughly;
  #4 (v) - scour;clean with hard rubbing;
  #5 (v) - call off; cancel; scratch;postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled;
  #6 (adj sat) - not selectively bred;

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sculptor(n) - a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus;
  #2 (n) - carver; sculpturer; statue maker;an artist who creates sculptures;
sculpture(n) - carving;creating figures or designs in three dimensions;
  #2 (n) - a three-dimensional work of plastic art;
  #3 (v) - grave; sculpt;shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it;
  #4 (v) - sculpt;create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;
seam(n) - joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces;
  #2 (n) - bed;a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit;
  #3 (n) - crease; crinkle; furrow; line; wrinkle;a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;
  #4 (v) - put together with a seam;
secretive(adj sat) - close; closelipped; closemouthed; tightlipped;inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information;
sector(n) - measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end;
  #2 (n) - sphere;a particular aspect of life or activity;
  #3 (n) - a social group that forms part of the society or the economy;
  #4 (n) - a portion of a military position;
  #5 (n) - the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes;
  #6 (n) - a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle;

sediment(n) - deposit;matter that has been deposited by some natural process;
  #2 (v) - settle as sediment;
  #3 (v) - deposit as a sediment;
seedling(n) - young plant or tree grown from a seed;
segment(n) - section;one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;
  #2 (n) - one of the parts into which something naturally divides;
  #3 (v) - divide or split up;
  #4 (v) - section;divide into segments;
segmentation(n) - division; partition; partitioning; sectionalisation; sectionalization;the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart;
  #2 (n) - cleavage;the repeated division of a fertilised ovum;
segregate(n) - someone who is or has been segregated;
  #2 (v) - separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others;
  #3 (v) - divide from the main body or mass and collect;
  #4 (v) - separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation;

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segregation(n) - sequestration;the act of segregating or sequestering;
  #2 (n) - separatism;a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups;
  #3 (n) - the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes;
seizure(n) - the taking possession of something by legal process;
  #2 (n) - capture; gaining control;the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property;
  #3 (n) - capture;the act of taking of a person by force;
  #4 (n) - ictus; raptus;a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease;
selective(adj sat) - tending to select; characterized by careful choice;
  #2 (adj sat) - characterized by very careful or fastidious selection;
selectively(adv) - by selection; in a selective manner;
seminar(n) - a course offered for a small group of advanced students;
  #2 (n) - any meeting for an exchange of ideas;

sensation(n) - sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency;the faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
  #2 (n) - aesthesis; esthesis; sense datum; sense experience; sense impression;an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation;
  #3 (n) - a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest;
  #4 (n) - ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard;someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field;
  #5 (n) - a state of widespread public excitement and interest;
sensational(adj sat) - arresting; stunning;commanding attention;
  #2 (adj) - causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion;
  #3 (adj) - sensory;relating to or concerned in sensation;
sensitivity(n) - sensitiveness;the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment;
  #2 (n) - sensitiveness;the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences;
  #3 (n) - sensibility; sensitiveness;responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation;
  #4 (n) - sensitiveness;sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others);
  #5 (n) - predisposition;susceptibility to a pathogen;
sensor(n) - detector; sensing element;any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner;
sentiment(n) - opinion; persuasion; thought; view;a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty;
  #2 (n) - tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion;

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sergeant(n) - police sergeant;a lawman with the rank of sergeant;
  #2 (n) - any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal;
  #3 (n) - sergeant-at-law; serjeant; serjeant-at-law;an English barrister of the highest rank;
serial(n) - serial publication; series;a periodical that appears at scheduled times;
  #2 (n) - series;a serialized set of programs;
  #3 (adj sat) - consecutive; sequent; sequential; successive;in regular succession without gaps;
  #4 (adj sat) - in series; nonparallel;of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations;
  #5 (adj) - pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series;
  #6 (adj) - pertaining to or composed in serial technique;
sermon(n) - preaching;a moralistic rebuke;
  #2 (n) - discourse; preaching;an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service);
serpent(n) - ophidian; snake;limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous;
  #2 (n) - an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake;
  #3 (n) - a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited;
setback(n) - black eye; blow; reversal; reverse;an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating;

sewer(n) - cloaca; sewerage;a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water;
  #2 (n) - someone who sews;
  #3 (n) - gutter; toilet;misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;
sewerage(n) - cloaca; sewer;a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water;
  #2 (n) - sewage;waste matter carried away in sewers or drains;
sexual(adj sat) - intimate;involved in a sexual relationship;
  #2 (adj) - having or involving sex;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to or characterized by sexuality;
shabby(adj sat) - mean and unworthy and despicable;
  #2 (adj sat) - moth-eaten; ratty; tatty;showing signs of wear and tear;
shady(adj sat) - shadowed; shadowy; umbrageous;filled with shade;
  #2 (adj sat) - fishy; funny; suspect; suspicious;not as expected;
  #3 (adj sat) - louche;of questionable taste or morality;
  #4 (adj sat) - fly-by-night;unscrupulous;

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shaft(n) - calamus; quill;the hollow spine of a feather;
  #2 (n) - rotating shaft;a revolving rod that transmits power or motion;
  #3 (n) - a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow);
  #4 (n) - a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel;
  #5 (n) - scape;upright consisting of the vertical part of a column;
  #6 (n) - a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator);
  #7 (n) - lance; spear;a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon;
  #8 (n) - cock; dick; pecker; peter; prick; putz; tool;obscene terms for penis;
  #9 (n) - diaphysis;the main (mid) section of a long bone;
  #10 (n) - barb; dig; gibe; jibe; shot; slam;an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;
  #11 (n) - a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer;
  #12 (n) - beam; beam of light; irradiation; light beam; ray; ray of light; shaft of light;a column of light (as from a beacon);
  #13 (v) - cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw;defeat someone through trickery or deceit;
  #14 (v) - equip with a shaft;
shamefully(adv) - discreditably; disgracefully; dishonorably; dishonourably; ignominiously; ingloriously;in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree;
shampoo(n) - the act of washing your hair with shampoo;
  #2 (n) - cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair;
  #3 (v) - use shampoo on (hair);
shareholder(n) - shareowner; stockholder;someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation;
shark(n) - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales;
  #2 (n) - a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways;
  #3 (n) - a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest;
  #4 (v) - hunt shark;
  #5 (v) - play the shark; act with trickery;

shatter(v) - break into many pieces;
  #2 (v) - cause to break into many pieces;
  #3 (v) - damage or destroy;
shepherd(n) - sheepherder; sheepman;a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock;
  #2 (n) - a clergyman who watches over a group of people;
  #3 (v) - tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats;
  #4 (v) - watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils;
sheriff(n) - the principal law-enforcement officer in a county;
shipbuilder(n) - a business that builds and repairs ships;
  #2 (n) - ship builder;a person who builds ships as a business;
  #3 (n) - ship builder; shipwright;a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels;
shipbuilding(n) - ship building;the construction of ships;

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shipment(n) - despatch; dispatch;the act of sending off something;
  #2 (n) - cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload;goods carried by a large vehicle;
shipwreck(n) - a wrecked ship (or a part of one);
  #2 (n) - wreck;an accident that destroys a ship at sea;
  #3 (n) - an irretrievable loss;
  #4 (v) - destroy a ship;
  #5 (v) - cause to experience shipwreck;
  #6 (v) - suffer failure, as in some enterprise;
  #7 (v) - ruin utterly;
shorthand(n) - stenography; tachygraphy;a method of writing rapidly;
  #2 (adj sat) - written in abbreviated or symbolic form;
shove(n) - the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something);
  #2 (v) - push roughly;
  #3 (v) - jostle;come into rough contact with while moving;
  #4 (v) - squeeze; stuff; thrust;press or force;
shovel(n) - digger; excavator; power shovel;a machine for excavating;
  #2 (n) - a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle;
  #3 (n) - a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace;
  #4 (n) - shovelful; spadeful;the quantity a shovel can hold;
  #5 (v) - dig with or as if with a shovel;

shrill(v) - pipe; pipe up; shriek;utter a shrill cry;
  #2 (adj sat) - of colors that are bright and gaudy;
  #3 (adj sat) - strident;being sharply insistent on being heard;
  #4 (adj sat) - sharp;having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones;
shrine(n) - a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person;
  #2 (v) - enshrine;enclose in a shrine;
shrinkage(n) - shoplifting;the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store;
  #2 (n) - the amount by which something shrinks;
  #3 (n) - shrinking;process or result of becoming less or smaller;
shrub(n) - bush;a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems;
shrug(n) - a gesture involving the shoulders;
  #2 (v) - raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation;

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shutter(n) - a hinged blind for a window;
  #2 (n) - a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure;
  #3 (v) - close with shutters;
shuttle(n) - bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads;
  #2 (n) - public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points;
  #3 (n) - bird; birdie; shuttlecock;badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers;
  #4 (v) - travel back and forth between two points;
sidestep(n) - a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing);
  #2 (v) - circumvent; dodge; duck; elude; evade; fudge; hedge; parry; put off; skirt;avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
sift(v) - sieve;distinguish and separate out;
  #2 (v) - sieve; strain;separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;
  #3 (v) - sieve;check and sort carefully;
  #4 (v) - move as if through a sieve;
signify(v) - intend; mean; stand for;denote or connote;
  #2 (v) - convey or express a meaning;
  #3 (v) - make known with a word or signal;

silicon(n) - atomic number 14; si;a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors;
similarity(n) - the quality of being similar;
  #2 (n) - law of similarity;a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit;
simplification(n) - reduction;the act of reducing complexity;
  #2 (n) - elimination of superfluous details;
  #3 (n) - an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity;
simulation(n) - feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense;the act of giving a false appearance;
  #2 (n) - the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training);
  #3 (n) - model;representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale);
  #4 (n) - computer simulation;the technique of representing the real world by a computer program;
simultaneous(adj sat) - coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; co-occurrent; cooccurring;occurring or operating at the same time;

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simultaneously(adv) - at the same time;at the same instant;
singularity(n) - uniqueness;the quality of being one of a kind;
  #2 (n) - strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual;
sinner(n) - evildoer;a person who sins (without repenting);
siren(n) - eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills;
  #2 (n) - an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning;
  #3 (n) - a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound;
  #4 (n) - delilah; enchantress; femme fatale; temptress;a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive;
  #5 (n) - a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived;
situate(v) - deposit; fix; posit;put (something somewhere) firmly;
  #2 (v) - locate;determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey;

situated(adj sat) - located; placed; set;situated in a particular spot or position;
skeleton(n) - frame; skeletal frame; underframe;the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;
  #2 (n) - frame; skeletal system; systema skeletale;the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal;
  #3 (n) - skeleton in the closet; skeleton in the cupboard;a scandal that is kept secret;
  #4 (n) - something reduced to its minimal form;
skeptic(n) - doubter; sceptic;someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs;
skid(n) - sideslip; slip;an unexpected slide;
  #2 (n) - brake shoe; shoe;a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation;
  #3 (n) - one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects;
  #4 (v) - slew; slide; slip; slue;move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner;
  #5 (v) - slide without control;
  #6 (v) - apply a brake or skid to;
  #7 (v) - elevate onto skids;
skip(n) - omission;a mistake resulting from neglect;
  #2 (n) - a gait in which steps and hops alternate;
  #3 (v) - jump; pass over; skip over;bypass;
  #4 (v) - skim; skitter;cause to skip over a surface;
  #5 (v) - bound off;bound off one point after another;
  #6 (v) - hop; hop-skip;jump lightly;
  #7 (v) - decamp; vamoose;leave suddenly;
  #8 (v) - cut;intentionally fail to attend;

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skyrocket(n) - rocket;sends a firework display high into the sky;
  #2 (n) - rocket;propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon;
  #3 (v) - rocket;shoot up abruptly, like a rocket;
skyscraper(n) - a very tall building with many stories;
slap(n) - smack; smacking;the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand;
  #2 (n) - smack;a blow from a flat object (as an open hand);
  #3 (v) - hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand;
  #4 (adv) - bang; bolt; slapdash; smack;directly;
slaughter(n) - the killing of animals (as for food);
  #2 (n) - butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre;the savage and excessive killing of many people;
  #3 (n) - debacle; drubbing; thrashing; trouncing; walloping; whipping;a sound defeat;
  #4 (v) - massacre; mow down;kill a large number of people indiscriminately;
  #5 (v) - butcher;kill (animals) usually for food consumption;
slim(v) - lose weight; melt off; reduce; slenderize; slim down; thin;take off weight;
  #2 (adj sat) - slender; slight; svelte;being of delicate or slender build;
  #3 (adj sat) - slender;small in quantity;

slipper(n) - carpet slipper;low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors;
  #2 (n) - skidder; slider;a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction;
slot(n) - a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail);
  #2 (n) - one-armed bandit;a slot machine that is used for gambling;
  #3 (n) - expansion slot;a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board;
  #4 (n) - a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable;
  #5 (n) - the trail of an animal (especially a deer);
  #6 (n) - a position in a hierarchy or organization;
  #7 (n) - time slot;a time assigned on a schedule or agenda;
  #8 (v) - assign a time slot;
slum(n) - slum area;a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions;
  #2 (v) - spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive;
slumber(n) - a dormant or quiescent state;
  #2 (n) - sleep;a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended;
  #3 (v) - catch some z's; kip; log z's; sleep;be asleep;
smash(n) - bang; hit; smasher; strike;a conspicuous success;
  #2 (n) - crash;the act of colliding with something;
  #3 (n) - overhead;a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head;
  #4 (n) - smash-up;a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles);
  #5 (n) - bang; bash; belt; knock;a vigorous blow;
  #6 (v) - break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow;
  #7 (v) - dash;break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over;
  #8 (v) - overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful);
  #9 (v) - blast; boom; nail;hit hard;
  #10 (v) - collide or strike violently and suddenly;
  #11 (v) - hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke;
  #12 (v) - bang up; smash up;damage or destroy as if by violence;
  #13 (v) - crush; demolish;humiliate or depress completely;
  #14 (v) - hit violently;
  #15 (v) - bankrupt; break; ruin;reduce to bankruptcy;
  #16 (adv) - smashingly;with a loud crash;

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smog(n) - smogginess;air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog;
smuggle(v) - import or export without paying customs duties;
snack(n) - bite; collation;a light informal meal;
  #2 (v) - nosh;eat a snack; eat lightly;
snail(n) - freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell;
  #2 (n) - escargot;edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic;
  #3 (v) - gather snails;
snapshot(n) - shot; snap;an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera;

snatch(n) - catch; grab; snap;the act of catching an object with the hands;
  #2 (n) - a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion;
  #3 (n) - kidnapping;the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment;
  #4 (n) - cunt; puss; pussy; slit; twat;obscene terms for female genitals;
  #5 (n) - bit;a small fragment;
  #6 (v) - to make grasping motions;
  #7 (v) - snap; snatch up;to grasp hastily or eagerly;
  #8 (v) - abduct; kidnap; nobble;take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom;
sneer(n) - leer;a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls;
  #2 (n) - a contemptuous or scornful remark;
  #3 (v) - smile contemptuously;
  #4 (v) - express through a scornful smile;
sneeze(n) - sneezing; sternutation;a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose;
  #2 (v) - exhale spasmodically, as when an irritant entered one's nose;
sniff(n) - snuff;sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose;
  #2 (v) - sniffle;inhale audibly through the nose;
  #3 (v) - whiff;perceive by inhaling through the nose;
snob(n) - prig; snoot; snot;a person regarded as arrogant and annoying;

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snore(n) - snoring; stertor;the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound;
  #2 (n) - the rattling noise produced when snoring;
  #3 (v) - saw logs; saw wood;breathe noisily during one's sleep;
soar(n) - zoom;the act of rising upward into the air;
  #2 (v) - go or move upward;
  #3 (v) - sailplane;fly a plane without an engine;
  #4 (v) - fly upwards or high in the sky;
  #5 (v) - soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom;rise rapidly;
  #6 (v) - hang glide;fly by means of a hang glider;
sober(v) - sober up;become sober after excessive alcohol consumption;
  #2 (v) - sober up;become more realistic;
  #3 (v) - cause to become sober;
  #4 (adj sat) - drab; somber; sombre;lacking brightness or color; dull;
  #5 (adj) - not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol);
  #6 (adj sat) - grave; sedate; solemn;dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises;
  #7 (adj) - serious; unplayful;completely lacking in playfulness;
soccer(n) - association football;a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal;
sociable(n) - mixer; social;a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity;
  #2 (adj sat) - friendly and pleasant;
  #3 (adj) - inclined to or conducive to companionship with others;

sociological(adj) - of or relating to or determined by sociology;
sociologist(n) - a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society;
sociology(n) - the study and classification of human societies;
socket(n) - a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted;
  #2 (n) - receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted;
  #3 (n) - a bony hollow into which a structure fits;
sodium(n) - atomic number 11; na;a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt);

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sofa(n) - couch; lounge;an upholstered seat for more than one person;
software(n) - computer software; package; software package; software program; software system;written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory;
solemnly(adv) - in a grave and sedate manner;
solidify(v) - become solid;
  #2 (v) - make solid or more solid; cause to solidify;
solitary(n) - hermit; recluse; solitudinarian; troglodyte;one who lives in solitude;
  #2 (n) - solitary confinement;confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners;
  #3 (adj sat) - lonely; unfrequented;devoid of creatures;
  #4 (adj sat) - lone; lonesome; only; sole;being the only one; single and isolated from others;
  #5 (adj sat) - lone; lonely;characterized by or preferring solitude;
  #6 (adj sat) - alone; lone; lonely;lacking companions or companionship;
  #7 (adj sat) - nongregarious; nonsocial;of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies;

solo(n) - a flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied;
  #2 (n) - any activity that is performed alone without assistance;
  #3 (n) - a musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment);
  #4 (v) - perform a piece written for a single instrument;
  #5 (v) - fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers;
  #6 (adj sat) - composed or performed by a single voice or instrument;
  #7 (adv) - alone; unaccompanied;without anybody else or anything else;
solvent(n) - answer; resolution; result; solution;a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
  #2 (n) - dissolvent; dissolver; dissolving agent; resolvent;a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances;
  #3 (adj) - capable of meeting financial obligations;
sonar(n) - asdic; echo sounder;a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return;
soot(n) - carbon black; crock; lampblack; smut;a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink;
  #2 (v) - coat with soot;
soothe(v) - cause to feel better;
  #2 (v) - comfort; console; solace;give moral or emotional strength to;

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southwards(adv) - southerly; southward;toward the south;
souvenir(n) - keepsake; relic; token;something of sentimental value;
  #2 (n) - memento;a reminder of past events;
sovereign(n) - crowned head; monarch;a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right;
  #2 (adj sat) - supreme;greatest in status or authority or power;
  #3 (adj sat) - autonomous; independent; self-governing;not controlled by outside forces;
spacious(adj sat) - roomy;having ample space;
  #2 (adj sat) - broad; wide;very large in expanse or scope;
spaniard(n) - a native or inhabitant of Spain;

sparkle(n) - glisten; glister; glitter; scintillation;the quality of shining with a bright reflected light;
  #2 (n) - light; spark; twinkle;merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance;
  #3 (n) - coruscation; glitter;the occurrence of a small flash or spark;
  #4 (v) - coruscate; scintillate;be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity;
  #5 (v) - effervesce; fizz; foam; form bubbles; froth;become bubbly or frothy or foaming;
  #6 (v) - coruscate; scintillate;reflect brightly;
  #7 (v) - spark;emit or produce sparks;
sparrow(n) - dunnock; hedge sparrow; prunella modularis;small brownish European songbird;
  #2 (n) - true sparrow;any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects;
spatial(adj) - spacial;pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space;
spear(n) - lance; shaft;a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon;
  #2 (n) - fishgig; fizgig; gig; lance;an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish;
  #3 (v) - pierce with a spear;
  #4 (v) - spear up;thrust up like a spear;
speciality(n) - specialisation; specialism; specialization; specialty;the special line of work you have adopted as your career;
  #2 (n) - distinctiveness; peculiarity; specialness; specialty;a distinguishing trait;
  #3 (n) - forte; long suit; metier; specialty; strength; strong point; strong suit;an asset of special worth or utility;

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species(n) - a specific kind of something;
  #2 (n) - taxonomic group whose members can interbreed;
specification(n) - stipulation;a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement;
  #2 (n) - a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention;
  #3 (n) - spec;a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work;
  #4 (n) - naming explicitly;
spectacle(n) - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself;
  #2 (n) - an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale;
  #3 (n) - something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight);
spectacular(n) - a lavishly produced performance;
  #2 (adj sat) - outstanding; prominent; salient; striking;having a quality that thrusts itself into attention;
  #3 (adj sat) - characteristic of spectacles or drama;
  #4 (adj sat) - dramatic; striking;sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect;
spectator(n) - spectator pump;a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel;
  #2 (n) - looker; viewer; watcher; witness;a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind);

spectrometer(n) - mass spectrometer;spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer;
spectrum(n) - a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities;
  #2 (n) - an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave;
speculation(n) - meditation;continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature;
  #2 (n) - conjecture;a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence);
  #3 (n) - conjecture; guess; hypothesis; supposition; surmisal; surmise;a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence;
  #4 (n) - venture;an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits;
speculative(adj sat) - inquisitive; questioning; wondering;showing curiosity;
  #2 (adj sat) - notional;not based on fact or investigation;
  #3 (adj sat) - bad; high-risk; risky;not financially safe or secure;
spherical(adj sat) - ball-shaped; global; globose; globular; orbicular; spheric;having the shape of a sphere or ball;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere;

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spice(n) - spicery; spiciness;the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored;
  #2 (n) - any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food;
  #3 (n) - aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative;
  #4 (v) - spice up;make more interesting or flavorful;
  #5 (v) - spice up; zest;add herbs or spices to;
spike(n) - sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes;
  #2 (n) - a large stout nail;
  #3 (n) - spindle;any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object;
  #4 (n) - a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal);
  #5 (n) - a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur);
  #6 (n) - each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves);
  #7 (n) - spike heel; stiletto heel;a very high narrow heel on women's shoes;
  #8 (n) - a transient variation in voltage or current;
  #9 (n) - a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline;
  #10 (n) - an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis;
  #11 (n) - capitulum; ear;fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn;
  #12 (v) - manifest a sharp increase;
  #13 (v) - fortify; lace;add alcohol to (beverages);
  #14 (v) - spike out;bring forth a spike or spikes;
  #15 (v) - secure with spikes;
  #16 (v) - empale; impale; transfix;pierce with a sharp stake or point;
  #17 (v) - stand in the way of;
spinach(n) - dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads;
  #2 (n) - prickly-seeded spinach; spinach plant; spinacia oleracea;southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves;
spindle(n) - spike;any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object;
  #2 (n) - a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning;
  #3 (n) - arbor; mandrel; mandril;any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts;
  #4 (n) - a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.;
  #5 (n) - tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle;
spine(n) - a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin;
  #2 (n) - backbone;the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved;
  #3 (n) - back; backbone; rachis; spinal column; vertebral column;the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord;
  #4 (n) - pricker; prickle; spikelet; sticker; thorn;a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf;
  #5 (n) - acantha; spur;any sharply pointed projection;

spiral(n) - flying downward in a helical path with a large radius;
  #2 (n) - coil; helix; volute; whorl;a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops;
  #3 (n) - volute;ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center;
  #4 (n) - a continuously accelerating change in the economy;
  #5 (n) - a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center;
  #6 (n) - helix;a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle;
  #7 (v) - coil; gyrate;to wind or move in a spiral course;
  #8 (v) - corkscrew;move in a spiral or zigzag course;
  #9 (v) - form a spiral;
  #10 (adj sat) - coiling; helical; spiraling; turbinate; volute; voluted; whorled;in the shape of a coil;
splash(n) - splashing;the act of scattering water about haphazardly;
  #2 (n) - spatter; spattering; splashing; splattering;the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface;
  #3 (n) - a patch of bright color;
  #4 (n) - plash;the sound like water splashing;
  #5 (n) - dab; splatter;a small quantity of something moist or liquid;
  #6 (n) - stir;a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event;
  #7 (v) - mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered;
  #8 (v) - plash; spatter; splatter; splosh; swash;dash a liquid upon or against;
  #9 (v) - splosh; sprinkle;cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force;
  #10 (v) - strike and dash about in a liquid;
  #11 (v) - soil or stain with a splashed liquid;
  #12 (v) - slop; slosh; splosh; squelch; squish;walk through mud or mire;
  #13 (v) - slosh; slush; splosh;make a splashing sound;
splay(n) - an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger;
  #2 (v) - dislocate; luxate; slip;move out of position;
  #3 (v) - rotate; spread out; turn out;turn outward;
  #4 (v) - spread open or apart;
  #5 (adj sat) - turned outward in an ungainly manner;
splinter(n) - sliver;a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal;
  #2 (v) - sliver;break up into splinters or slivers;
  #3 (v) - sliver;divide into slivers or splinters;
  #4 (v) - break away; secede;withdraw from an organization or communion;
sponge(n) - parazoan; poriferan;primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies;
  #2 (n) - leech; parasite; sponger;a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage;
  #3 (n) - quick study;someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily;
  #4 (n) - a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used;
  #5 (v) - gather sponges, in the ocean;
  #6 (v) - wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten;
  #7 (v) - soak up with a sponge;
  #8 (v) - erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard;
  #9 (v) - bum; cadge; grub; mooch;ask for and get free; be a parasite;

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spongy(adj sat) - spongelike;like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed;
  #2 (adj sat) - spongelike; squashy; squishy;easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility;
spotted(adj sat) - patched; spotty;having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture);
spout(n) - an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain;
  #2 (v) - jabber; mouth off; rabbit on; rant; rave;talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner;
  #3 (v) - gush; spirt; spurt;gush forth in a sudden stream or jet;
sprawl(n) - sprawling;an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about;
  #2 (n) - conurbation; urban sprawl;an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities;
  #3 (v) - sit or lie with one's limbs spread out;
  #4 (v) - straggle;go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way;
sprinkle(n) - sparge; sprinkling;the act of sprinkling or splashing water;
  #2 (n) - scattering; sprinkling;a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby;
  #3 (v) - besprinkle; sparge;scatter with liquid; wet lightly;
  #4 (v) - splash; splosh;cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force;
  #5 (v) - disperse; dot; dust; scatter;distribute loosely;
  #6 (v) - patter; pitter-patter; spatter; spit;rain gently;

sprout(n) - a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed);
  #2 (n) - any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud;
  #3 (v) - stock;put forth and grow sprouts or shoots;
  #4 (v) - bourgeon; burgeon forth; germinate; pullulate; shoot; spud;produce buds, branches, or germinate;
spruce(n) - any coniferous tree of the genus Picea;
  #2 (n) - light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork;
  #3 (v) - slick up; smarten up; spruce up;dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion;
  #4 (v) - slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce up; titivate; tittivate;make neat, smart, or trim;
  #5 (adj sat) - dapper; dashing; jaunty; natty; raffish; rakish; snappy; spiffy;marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners;
squadron(n) - an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group;
  #2 (n) - a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms;
  #3 (n) - a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task;
squash(n) - squash rackets; squash racquets;a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets;
  #2 (n) - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable;
  #3 (n) - squash vine;any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits;
  #4 (v) - crush; mash; squeeze; squelch;to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;
squat(n) - squatting;the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels;
  #2 (n) - knee bend; squatting;exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles;
  #3 (n) - diddley; diddly; diddlyshit; diddly-shit; diddlysquat; diddly-squat; doodly-squat; jack; shit;a small worthless amount;
  #4 (v) - crouch; hunker; hunker down; scrunch; scrunch up;sit on one's heels;
  #5 (v) - occupy (a dwelling) illegally;
  #6 (v) - be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide;
  #7 (adj sat) - underslung;having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground;
  #8 (adj sat) - chunky; dumpy; low-set; squatty; stumpy;short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature;

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squirrel(n) - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail;
  #2 (n) - the fur of a squirrel;
stab(n) - shot;informal words for any attempt or effort;
  #2 (n) - knife thrust; thrust;a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument;
  #3 (n) - pang; twinge;a sudden sharp feeling;
  #4 (v) - dig; jab; poke; prod;poke or thrust abruptly;
  #5 (v) - jab;stab or pierce;
  #6 (v) - knife;use a knife on;
stabilization(n) - stabilisation;the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable;
  #2 (n) - stabilisation;the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn;
stabilize(v) - stabilise;make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium;
  #2 (v) - stabilise;become stable or more stable;
  #3 (v) - brace; stabilise; steady;support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace;
stadium(n) - arena; bowl; sports stadium;a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments;

stagger(n) - lurch; stumble;an unsteady uneven gait;
  #2 (v) - distribute;to arrange in a systematic order;
  #3 (v) - astound or overwhelm, as with shock;
  #4 (v) - careen; keel; lurch; reel; swag;walk as if unable to control one's movements;
  #5 (v) - flounder;walk with great difficulty;
stainless(n) - chromium steel; stainless steel;steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion;
  #2 (adj sat) - unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished;free from blemishes;
stairway(n) - staircase;a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps;
stalk(n) - angry walk;a stiff or threatening gait;
  #2 (n) - stalking;the act of following prey stealthily;
  #3 (n) - stalking; still hunt;a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush;
  #4 (n) - stem;a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ;
  #5 (n) - chaff; husk; shuck; straw; stubble;material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds;
  #6 (v) - walk stiffly;
  #7 (v) - go through (an area) in search of prey;
  #8 (v) - haunt;follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
stall(n) - stalling;a tactic used to mislead or delay;
  #2 (n) - booth; cubicle; kiosk;small area set off by walls for special use;
  #3 (n) - carrel; carrell; cubicle;small individual study area in a library;
  #4 (n) - sales booth; stand;a booth where articles are displayed for sale;
  #5 (n) - a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed;
  #6 (n) - seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater;
  #7 (n) - a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge;
  #8 (v) - deliberately delay an event or action;
  #9 (v) - conk;come to a stop;
  #10 (v) - cause an engine to stop;
  #11 (v) - cause an airplane to go into a stall;
  #12 (v) - experience a stall in flight, of airplanes;
  #13 (v) - put into, or keep in, a stall;
  #14 (v) - dillydally; dilly-dally; drag one's feet; drag one's heels; procrastinate; shillyshally;postpone doing what one should be doing;

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stammer(n) - stutter;a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds;
  #2 (v) - bumble; falter; stutter;speak haltingly;
standardize(v) - standardise;cause to conform to standard or norm;
  #2 (v) - standardise;evaluate by comparing with a standard;
staple(n) - basic;a necessary commodity for which demand is constant;
  #2 (n) - paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together;
  #3 (n) - a short U-shaped wire nail for securing cables;
  #4 (n) - raw material;material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing;
  #5 (n) - staple fiber; staple fibre;a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn;
  #6 (v) - secure or fasten with a staple or staples;
  #7 (adj sat) - necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities;
starch(n) - a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering;
  #2 (n) - amylum;a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles;
  #3 (v) - stiffen with starch;
startle(n) - jump; start;a sudden involuntary movement;
  #2 (v) - galvanise; galvanize;to stimulate to action;
  #3 (v) - jump; start;move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;

starvation(n) - starving;the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine;
  #2 (n) - famishment;a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period;
statesman(n) - national leader; solon;a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs;
stationary(adj sat) - not capable of being moved;
  #2 (adj sat) - standing still;
stationery(n) - letter paper;paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes;
statistics(n) - a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters;

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statute(n) - legislative act;an act passed by a legislative body;
  #2 (adj sat) - codified;enacted by a legislative body;
stead(n) - lieu; place; position;the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another;
steadfast(adj sat) - staunch; unswerving;firm and dependable especially in loyalty;
  #2 (adj sat) - firm; steady; stiff; unbendable; unfaltering; unshakable; unwavering;marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable;
steak(n) - a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish;
steeple(n) - spire;a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top;

stereo(n) - stereo system; stereophonic system; stereophony;reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound;
  #2 (n) - stereoscopic photograph; stereoscopic picture;two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together;
  #3 (adj sat) - stereophonic; two-channel;designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels;
sterilization(n) - sterilisation;the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means);
  #2 (n) - sterilisation;the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce);
sterilize(v) - desex; desexualise; desexualize; fix; sterilise; unsex;make infertile;
  #2 (v) - sterilise;make free from bacteria;
stern(n) - after part; poop; quarter; tail;the rear part of a ship;
  #2 (n) - arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush;the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;
  #3 (n) - isaac stern;United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920);
  #4 (adj sat) - exacting; strict;severe and unremitting in making demands;
  #5 (adj sat) - austere;of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect;
  #6 (adj sat) - grim; inexorable; relentless; unappeasable; unforgiving; unrelenting;not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
  #7 (adj sat) - austere; severe; stark;severely simple;
stew(n) - food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables;
  #2 (n) - fret; lather; sweat; swither;agitation resulting from active worry;
  #3 (v) - cook slowly and for a long time in liquid;
  #4 (v) - grudge;bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings;
  #5 (v) - brood; grizzle;be in a huff; be silent or sullen;

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steward(n) - custodian; keeper;one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals;
  #2 (n) - shop steward;a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management;
  #3 (n) - someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else;
  #4 (n) - flight attendant;an attendant on an airplane;
  #5 (n) - the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements;
stewardess(n) - air hostess; hostess;a woman steward on an airplane;
stiffness(n) - hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity;excessive sternness;
  #2 (n) - awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness;the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment);
  #3 (n) - firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action;
  #4 (n) - the property of moving with pain or difficulty;
  #5 (n) - the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend;
stimulus(n) - input; stimulant; stimulation;any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action;
stipulate(v) - make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force;
  #2 (v) - condition; qualify; specify;specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement;
  #3 (v) - give a guarantee or promise of;

stitch(n) - a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing;
  #2 (n) - a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running;
  #3 (v) - run up; sew; sew together;fasten by sewing; do needlework;
stockbroker(n) - an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds;
stool(n) - a simple seat without a back or arms;
  #2 (n) - can; commode; crapper; pot; potty; throne; toilet;a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination;
  #3 (n) - the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings;
  #4 (n) - bm; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure;solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels;
  #5 (v) - ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; take a crap; take a shit;have a bowel movement;
  #6 (v) - tiller;grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers;
  #7 (v) - react to a decoy, of wildfowl;
  #8 (v) - lure with a stool, as of wild fowl;
stoppage(n) - stop;the act of stopping something;
  #2 (n) - block; blockage; closure; occlusion; stop;an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
  #3 (n) - arrest; check; halt; hitch; stay; stop;the state of inactivity following an interruption;
stork(n) - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage;

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straightforward(adj sat) - pointed directly ahead;
  #2 (adj sat) - square; straight;without evasion or compromise;
  #3 (adj sat) - free from ambiguity;
  #4 (adj sat) - aboveboard;without concealment or deception; honest;
strait(n) - sound;a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water;
  #2 (n) - pass; straits;a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs;
  #3 (adj sat) - narrow;
strand(n) - chain; string;a necklace made by a stringing objects together;
  #2 (n) - line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable;
  #3 (n) - a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole;
  #4 (n) - a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels;
  #5 (n) - a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides);
  #6 (n) - fibril; filament;a very slender natural or synthetic fiber;
  #7 (v) - ground; run aground;bring to the ground;
  #8 (v) - drive (a vessel) ashore;
  #9 (v) - maroon;leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue;
strategic(adj sat) - highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war;
  #2 (adj) - strategical;relating to or concerned with strategy;
stray(n) - an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal);
  #2 (v) - digress; divagate; wander;lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking;
  #3 (v) - cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; swan; tramp; vagabond; wander;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
  #4 (v) - drift; err;wander from a direct course or at random;
  #5 (adj sat) - isolated;not close together in time;
  #6 (adj sat) - having no home or having wandered away from home;

streamline(v) - contour economically or efficiently;
strenuous(adj sat) - arduous; straining;taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance;
  #2 (adj sat) - characterized by or performed with much energy or force;
strew(v) - cover; be dispersed over;
  #2 (v) - straw;spread by scattering (;
stride(n) - significant progress (especially in the phrase;
  #2 (n) - pace; tread;a step in walking or running;
  #3 (n) - footstep; pace; step;the distance covered by a step;
  #4 (v) - cover or traverse by taking long steps;
  #5 (v) - walk with long steps;
strife(n) - bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension;
  #2 (n) - discord;lack of agreement or harmony;

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striking(n) - hit; hitting;the act of contacting one thing with another;
  #2 (n) - contact; impinging;the physical coming together of two or more things;
  #3 (adj sat) - outstanding; prominent; salient; spectacular;having a quality that thrusts itself into attention;
  #4 (adj sat) - dramatic; spectacular;sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect;
strive(v) - reach; strain;to exert much effort or energy;
  #2 (v) - endeavor; endeavour;attempt by employing effort;
structural(adj sat) - concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study;
  #2 (adj sat) - affecting or involved in structure or construction;
  #3 (adj) - relating to or having or characterized by structure;
  #4 (adj) - relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure;
  #5 (adj) - morphologic; morphological;relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals;
  #6 (adj) - geomorphologic; geomorphological; morphologic; morphological;pertaining to geological structure;
stud(n) - stud poker;poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt;
  #2 (n) - studhorse;adult male horse kept for breeding;
  #3 (n) - scantling;an upright in house framing;
  #4 (n) - rivet;ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt);
  #5 (n) - he-man; macho-man;a man who is virile and sexually active;
  #6 (v) - provide with or construct with studs;
  #7 (v) - constellate; dot;scatter or intersperse like dots or studs;
studio(n) - workplace for the teaching or practice of an art;
  #2 (n) - workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded;
  #3 (n) - studio apartment;an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen;

stumble(n) - misstep; trip; trip-up;an unintentional but embarrassing blunder;
  #2 (n) - lurch; stagger;an unsteady uneven gait;
  #3 (v) - slip up; trip up;make an error;
  #4 (v) - trip;miss a step and fall or nearly fall;
  #5 (v) - bumble; falter;walk unsteadily;
  #6 (v) - hit;encounter by chance;
sturdy(adj sat) - tough;substantially made or constructed;
  #2 (adj) - inflexible; uncompromising;not making concessions;
  #3 (adj sat) - hardy; stalwart; stout;having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships;
subdivide(v) - divide into smaller and smaller pieces;
  #2 (v) - form into subdivisions;
subdue(v) - chasten; tame;correct by punishment or discipline;
  #2 (v) - conquer; curb; inhibit; stamp down; suppress;to put down by force or authority;
  #3 (v) - subordinate;make subordinate, dependent, or subservient;
  #4 (v) - get over; master; overcome; surmount;get on top of; deal with successfully;
  #5 (v) - crucify; mortify;hold within limits and control;
  #6 (v) - keep down; quash; reduce; repress; subjugate;put down by force or intimidation;
subjunctive(n) - subjunctive mood;a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible;
  #2 (adj) - relating to a mood of verbs;

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submission(n) - compliance;the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another;
  #2 (n) - a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing;
  #3 (n) - an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter;
  #4 (n) - a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter;
  #5 (n) - entry;something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition);
  #6 (n) - meekness;the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness;
  #7 (n) - the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else;
subordinate(n) - hyponym; subordinate word;a word that is more specific than a given word;
  #2 (n) - foot soldier; subsidiary; underling;an assistant subject to the authority or control of another;
  #3 (v) - subdue;make subordinate, dependent, or subservient;
  #4 (v) - rank or order as less important or consider of less value;
  #5 (adj) - dependent;unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence;
  #6 (adj) - low-level;lower in rank or importance;
  #7 (adj) - subject or submissive to authority or the control of another;
subscribe(v) - support;adopt as a belief;
  #2 (v) - sign;mark with one's signature; write one's name (on);
  #3 (v) - subscribe to; take;receive or obtain regularly;
  #4 (v) - offer to buy, as of stocks and shares;
  #5 (v) - pledge;pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals;
subscription(n) - the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document);
  #2 (n) - a pledged contribution;
  #3 (n) - agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name;
  #4 (n) - a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time;
subsidiary(n) - subsidiary company;a company that is completely controlled by another company;
  #2 (n) - foot soldier; subordinate; underling;an assistant subject to the authority or control of another;
  #3 (adj sat) - auxiliary; supplemental; supplementary;functioning in a supporting capacity;

subsidy(n) - a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public;
subsistence(n) - minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting;
  #2 (n) - the state of existing in reality; having substance;
  #3 (n) - a means of surviving;
subsonic(adj) - less than that of sound in a designated medium;
substitution(n) - commutation; exchange;the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:;
  #2 (n) - permutation; replacement; switch; transposition;an event in which one thing is substituted for another;
substrate(n) - substratum;an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population;
  #2 (n) - substratum;any stratum or layer lying underneath another;
  #3 (n) - substratum;a surface on which an organism grows or is attached;
  #4 (n) - the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment;

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subsurface(adj) - beneath the surface;
subtle(adj sat) - insidious; pernicious;working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
  #2 (adj sat) - elusive;difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze;
  #3 (adj sat) - able to make fine distinctions;
suburban(adj) - relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs;
successor(n) - a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone;
  #2 (n) - heir;a person who inherits some title or office;
  #3 (n) - replacement;a person who follows next in order;
succumb(v) - buckle under; give in; knuckle under; yield;consent reluctantly;
  #2 (v) - yield;be fatally overwhelmed;

suchlike(adj sat) - of the same kind;
suffice(v) - answer; do; serve;be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity;
suffix(n) - postfix;an affix that is added at the end of the word;
  #2 (v) - attach a suffix to;
suicide(n) - self-annihilation; self-destruction;the act of killing yourself;
  #2 (n) - felo-de-se;a person who kills himself intentionally;
suite(n) - rooms;apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel);
  #2 (n) - a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected;
  #3 (n) - a matching set of furniture;
  #4 (n) - cortege; entourage; retinue;the group following and attending to some important person;

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suitor(n) - suer; wooer;a man who courts a woman;
sulphate(n) - sulfate;a salt or ester of sulphuric acid;
sultan(n) - grand turk;the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire);
sump(n) - cesspit; cesspool; sink;a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it;
  #2 (n) - a well or other hole in which water has collected;
  #3 (n) - an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine;
superb(adj sat) - surpassingly good;
  #2 (adj sat) - brilliant;of surpassing excellence;

superconductivity(n) - the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures;
superhuman(adj) - above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance;
supernatural(n) - occult;supernatural forces and events and beings collectively;
  #2 (adj) - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material;
supervise(v) - monitor;keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance;
  #2 (v) - manage; oversee; superintend;watch and direct;
supervision(n) - oversight; superintendence; supervising;management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group;

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supposition(n) - supposal;the cognitive process of supposing;
  #2 (n) - assumption; supposal;a hypothesis that is taken for granted;
  #3 (n) - conjecture; guess; hypothesis; speculation; surmisal; surmise;a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence;
suppress(v) - reduce the incidence or severity of or stop;
  #2 (v) - conquer; curb; inhibit; stamp down; subdue;to put down by force or authority;
  #3 (v) - repress;put out of one's consciousness;
  #4 (v) - bottle up; inhibit;control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior;
  #5 (v) - crush; oppress;come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority;
supremacy(n) - domination; mastery;power to dominate or defeat;
surcharge(n) - an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill);
  #2 (v) - show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given;
  #3 (v) - overcharge; overload;place too much a load on;
  #4 (v) - fill to an excessive degree;
  #5 (v) - print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote;
  #6 (v) - fill to capacity with people;
  #7 (v) - fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak;rip off; ask an unreasonable price;
  #8 (v) - charge an extra fee, as for a special service;
surge(n) - upsurge;a sudden or abrupt strong increase;
  #2 (n) - billow;a large sea wave;
  #3 (n) - rush; spate; upsurge;a sudden forceful flow;
  #4 (v) - see one's performance improve;
  #5 (v) - scend;rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave;
  #6 (v) - tide;rise or move forward;
  #7 (v) - soar; soar up; soar upwards; zoom;rise rapidly;
  #8 (v) - billow; heave;rise and move, as in waves or billows;

surgeon(n) - operating surgeon; sawbones;a physician who specializes in surgery;
surname(n) - cognomen; family name; last name;the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name);
surpass(v) - exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount;be or do something to a greater degree;
  #2 (v) - go by; go past; pass; pass by; travel by;move past;
  #3 (v) - exceed; transcend;be greater in scope or size than some standard;
  #4 (v) - excel; stand out;distinguish oneself;
surplus(n) - excess; nimiety; surplusage;a quantity much larger than is needed;
  #2 (adj sat) - excess; extra; redundant; spare; supererogatory; superfluous; supernumerary;more than is needed, desired, or required;
survival(n) - something that survives;
  #2 (n) - natural selection; selection; survival of the fittest;a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment;
  #3 (n) - endurance;a state of surviving; remaining alive;

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suspense(n) - an uncertain cognitive state;
  #2 (n) - excited anticipation of an approaching climax;
  #3 (n) - apprehension about what is going to happen;
sustainable(adj) - capable of being sustained;
swamp(n) - swampland;low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog;
  #2 (n) - a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables;
  #3 (v) - deluge; flood; inundate;fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;
  #4 (v) - drench;drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;
swan(n) - stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult;
  #2 (v) - affirm; assert; aver; avow; swear; verify;to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true;
  #3 (v) - sweep majestically;
  #4 (v) - cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; tramp; vagabond; wander;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
swarm(n) - cloud;a group of many things in the air or on the ground;
  #2 (n) - drove; horde;a moving crowd;
  #3 (v) - pour; pullulate; stream; teem;move in large numbers;
  #4 (v) - pullulate; teem;be teeming, be abuzz;

swerve(n) - swerving; veering;the act of turning aside suddenly;
  #2 (n) - yaw;an erratic deflection from an intended course;
  #3 (v) - curve; cut; sheer; slew; slue; trend; veer;turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
swoop(n) - a swift descent through the air;
  #2 (n) - a very rapid raid;
  #3 (n) - slide;rapid sliding up or down the musical scale;
  #4 (v) - swoop up;seize or catch with a swooping motion;
  #5 (v) - pounce;move down on as if in an attack;
  #6 (v) - move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc;
syllable(n) - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme;
symbolic(adj sat) - emblematic; emblematical; symbolical;serving as a visible symbol for something abstract;
  #2 (adj) - symbolical;relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols;
  #3 (adj) - using symbolism;
symbolize(v) - represent; stand for; symbolise; typify;express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol;
  #2 (v) - symbolise;represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols;

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symmetrical(adj sat) - harmonious; proportionate;exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities;
  #2 (adj) - symmetric;having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts;
symmetry(n) - isotropy;the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions;
  #2 (n) - balance; correspondence; symmetricalness;an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane;
  #3 (n) - proportion;balance among the parts of something;
symphony(n) - symphonic music;a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra;
  #2 (n) - philharmonic; symphony orchestra;a large orchestra; can perform symphonies;
symposium(n) - a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations;
symptom(n) - anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence;
  #2 (n) - any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease;

synchronize(v) - sync; synchronise;make synchronous and adjust in time or manner;
  #2 (v) - synchronise;cause to indicate the same time or rate;
  #3 (v) - synchronise;operate simultaneously;
  #4 (v) - contemporise; contemporize; synchronise;arrange or represent events so that they co-occur;
  #5 (v) - synchronise;make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action;
  #6 (v) - contemporise; contemporize; synchronise;happen at the same time;
synonymous(adj) - meaning the same or nearly the same;
synthesis(n) - deduction; deductive reasoning;reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect);
  #2 (n) - synthetic thinking;the combination of ideas into a complex whole;
  #3 (n) - the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds);
synthesiser(n) - synthesizer;an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments;
  #2 (n) - synthesist; synthesizer;an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods;
syrup(n) - sirup;a thick sweet sticky liquid;

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systematically(adv) - consistently;in a systematic or consistent manner;
tablet(n) - lozenge; pill; tab;a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet;
  #2 (n) - a small flat compressed cake of some substance;
  #3 (n) - a slab of stone or wood suitable for bearing an inscription;
  #4 (n) - pad; pad of paper;a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge;
tabulate(v) - shape or cut with a flat surface;
  #2 (v) - table; tabularise; tabularize;arrange or enter in tabular form;
tack(n) - sailing a zigzag course;
  #2 (n) - tacking;the act of changing tack;
  #3 (n) - mainsheet; sheet; shroud; weather sheet;a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind;
  #4 (n) - saddlery; stable gear;gear for a horse;
  #5 (n) - a short nail with a sharp point and a large head;
  #6 (n) - the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails;
  #7 (v) - alternate; flip; flip-flop; interchange; switch;reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action);
  #8 (v) - append; hang on; tack on; tag on;fix to; attach;
  #9 (v) - baste;sew together loosely, with large stitches;
  #10 (v) - fasten with tacks;
  #11 (v) - assemble; piece; put together; set up; tack together;create by putting components or members together;
  #12 (v) - wear round;turn into the wind;
tackle(n) - grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground;
  #2 (n) - a position on the line of scrimmage;
  #3 (n) - fishing gear; fishing rig; fishing tackle; rig;gear used in fishing;
  #4 (n) - rigging;gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails;
  #5 (n) - the person who plays that position on a football team;
  #6 (v) - seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball;
  #7 (v) - harness;put a harness;
  #8 (v) - take on; undertake;accept as a challenge;

tact(n) - tactfulness;consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense;
takeover(n) - a change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation;
  #2 (n) - coup; coup d'etat; putsch;a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force;
tanker(n) - oil tanker; oiler; tank ship;a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk;
  #2 (n) - tank driver;a soldier who drives a tank;
taper(n) - candle; wax light;stick of wax with a wick in the middle;
  #2 (n) - wick;a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame;
  #3 (n) - the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone);
  #4 (n) - a convex shape that narrows toward a point;
  #5 (v) - diminish gradually;
  #6 (v) - point; sharpen;give a point to;
technological(adj sat) - based in scientific and industrial progress;
  #2 (adj) - technical;of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles;

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technologist(n) - applied scientist; engineer;a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems;
telecast(n) - a television broadcast;
  #2 (v) - televise;broadcast via television;
telex(n) - teleprinter; teletype machine; teletypewriter; telex machine;a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter;
  #2 (v) - communicate by telex;
tenant(n) - renter;someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else;
  #2 (n) - any occupant who dwells in a place;
  #3 (n) - a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease);
  #4 (v) - occupy as a tenant;
tensile(adj sat) - ductile; malleable; pliable; pliant; tractile;capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to tension;

terminate(v) - end;bring to an end or halt;
  #2 (v) - can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away;terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
  #3 (v) - cease; end; finish; stop;have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
  #4 (v) - end;be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
termination(n) - conclusion; ending;the act of ending something;
  #2 (n) - ending;the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme);
  #3 (n) - final result; outcome; result; resultant;something that results;
  #4 (n) - end point; endpoint; terminus;a place where something ends or is complete;
  #5 (n) - expiration; expiry;a coming to an end of a contract period;
terminology(n) - language; nomenclature;a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline;
terrace(n) - patio;usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence;
  #2 (n) - a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face);
  #3 (n) - bench;a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below);
  #4 (v) - make into terraces as for cultivation;
  #5 (v) - terrasse;provide (a house) with a terrace;
terrific(adj sat) - terrifying;causing extreme terror;
  #2 (adj sat) - very great or intense;
  #3 (adj sat) - fantastic; grand; howling; marvellous; marvelous; rattling; tremendous; wonderful; wondrous;extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers;

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terrify(v) - terrorise; terrorize;fill with terror; frighten greatly;
terrorist(n) - a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities;
testify(v) - attest; bear witness; take the stand;give testimony in a court of law;
  #2 (v) - bear witness; evidence; prove; show;provide evidence for;
testimony(n) - testimonial;something that serves as evidence;
  #2 (n) - an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact;
  #3 (n) - a solemn statement made under oath;
texture(n) - grain;the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance);
  #2 (n) - the feel of a surface or a fabric;
  #3 (n) - the characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality;
  #4 (n) - the musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together;
  #5 (n) - the essential quality of something;

thanksgiving(n) - blessing; grace;a short prayer of thanks before a meal;
  #2 (n) - thanksgiving day;fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag;
thaw(n) - a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile;
  #2 (n) - thawing; warming;warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt;
  #3 (n) - melt; melting; thawing;the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid;
  #4 (v) - dethaw; dissolve; melt; unfreeze; unthaw;become or cause to become soft or liquid;
theme(n) - motif;a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work;
  #2 (n) - base; radical; root; root word; stem;the form of a word after all affixes are removed;
  #3 (n) - composition; paper; report;an essay (especially one written as an assignment);
  #4 (n) - subject; topic;the subject matter of a conversation or discussion;
  #5 (n) - idea; melodic theme; musical theme;melodic subject of a musical composition;
  #6 (v) - provide with a particular theme or motive;
thence(adv) - hence; so; therefore; thus;from that fact or reason or as a result;
  #2 (adv) - therefrom;from that place or from there;
  #3 (adv) - therefrom; thereof;from that circumstance or source;
theological(adj) - of or relating to or concerning theology;

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theology(n) - the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary);
  #2 (n) - divinity;the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth;
  #3 (n) - theological system;a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings;
theorem(n) - an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth;
  #2 (n) - a proposition deducible from basic postulates;
theorist(n) - idealogue; theoretician; theoriser; theorizer;someone who theorizes (especially in science or art);
theorize(v) - form or construct theories;
  #2 (v) - construct a theory about;
  #3 (v) - conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorise;to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds;
therapy(n) - the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.);

thereafter(adv) - thenceforth;from that time on;
therein(adv) - in that; in this;in or into that thing or place;
thereof(adv) - thence; therefrom;from that circumstance or source;
  #2 (adv) - of or concerning this or that;
thermal(n) - rising current of warm air;
  #2 (adj sat) - caused by or designed to retain heat;
  #3 (adj) - of or relating to a hot spring;
  #4 (adj) - caloric; thermic;relating to or associated with heat;
thermos(n) - thermos bottle; thermos flask;vacuum flask that preserves temperature of hot or cold drinks;

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thesis(n) - dissertation;a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree;
  #2 (n) - an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument;
thigh(n) - the part of the leg between the hip and the knee;
  #2 (n) - second joint;the upper joint of the leg of a fowl;
thou(n) - 1000; chiliad; g; grand; k; m; one thousand; thousand; yard;the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100;
thrash(n) - a swimming kick used while treading water;
  #2 (v) - bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick;beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;
  #3 (v) - flail; lam; thresh;give a thrashing to; beat hard;
  #4 (v) - thresh;beat the seeds out of a grain;
  #5 (v) - move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation;
  #6 (v) - beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all;
  #7 (v) - convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss;move or stir about violently;
  #8 (v) - mosh; slam; slam dance;dance the slam dance;
thresh(v) - flail; lam; thrash;give a thrashing to; beat hard;
  #2 (v) - thrash;beat the seeds out of a grain;
  #3 (v) - convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh about; toss;move or stir about violently;
  #4 (v) - flail;move like a flail; thresh about;

threshold(n) - doorsill; doorstep;the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway;
  #2 (n) - door; doorway; room access;the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close;
  #3 (n) - limen;the smallest detectable sensation;
  #4 (n) - brink; verge;a region marking a boundary;
  #5 (n) - the starting point for a new state or experience;
thrice(adv) - three times;
thrift(n) - parsimoniousness; parsimony; penny-pinching;extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily;
  #2 (n) - any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers;
thrifty(adj sat) - careful;mindful of the future in spending money;
  #2 (adj) - careful and diligent in the use of resources;
thrill(n) - something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation;
  #2 (n) - chill; frisson; quiver; shiver; shudder; tingle;an almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
  #3 (n) - bang; boot; charge; flush; kick; rush;the swift release of a store of affective force;
  #4 (v) - tickle; vibrate;feel sudden intense sensation or emotion;
  #5 (v) - beatify; exalt; exhilarate; inebriate; tickle pink;fill with sublime emotion;
  #6 (v) - shiver; shudder; throb;tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement;
  #7 (v) - cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input;

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throb(n) - pounding; throbbing;an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart);
  #2 (n) - a deep pulsating type of pain;
  #3 (v) - pulsate; pulse;expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically;
  #4 (v) - shiver; shudder; thrill;tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement;
  #5 (v) - pulsate or pound with abnormal force;
throne(n) - the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions;
  #2 (n) - the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.;
  #3 (n) - can; commode; crapper; pot; potty; stool; toilet;a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination;
  #4 (v) - enthrone;put a monarch on the throne;
  #5 (v) - sit on the throne as a ruler;
throng(n) - concourse; multitude;a large gathering of people;
  #2 (v) - jam; mob; pack; pile;press tightly together or cram;
tick(n) - any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals;
  #2 (n) - a light mattress;
  #3 (n) - check; check mark;a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.;
  #4 (n) - ticking;a metallic tapping sound;
  #5 (v) - check; check off; mark; mark off; tick off;put a check mark on or near or next to;
  #6 (v) - retick;sew;
  #7 (v) - beat; ticktack; ticktock;make a sound like a clock or a timer;
  #8 (v) - click;make a clicking or ticking sound;
tickle(n) - tickling; titillation;the act of tickling;
  #2 (n) - a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking;
  #3 (v) - touch or stroke lightly;
  #4 (v) - thrill; vibrate;feel sudden intense sensation or emotion;
  #5 (v) - titillate; vellicate;touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements;

tidiness(n) - neatness;the trait of being neat and orderly;
  #2 (n) - the habit of being tidy;
tile(n) - a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces;
  #2 (n) - game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.;
  #3 (n) - roofing tile;a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing;
  #4 (v) - cover with tiles;
tilt(n) - careen; rock; sway;pitching dangerously to one side;
  #2 (n) - inclination; lean; leaning; list;the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;
  #3 (n) - a slight but noticeable partiality;
  #4 (n) - arguing; argument; contention; contestation; controversy; disceptation; disputation;a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;
  #5 (n) - joust;a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances;
  #6 (v) - charge with a tilt;
  #7 (v) - cant; cant over; pitch; slant;heel over;
  #8 (v) - careen; shift; wobble;move sideways or in an unsteady way;
  #9 (v) - angle; lean; slant; tip;to incline or bend from a vertical position;
timber(n) - a beam made of wood;
  #2 (n) - a post made of wood;
  #3 (n) - quality; timbre; tone;the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);
  #4 (n) - forest; timberland; woodland;land that is covered with trees and shrubs;
  #5 (n) - lumber;the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material;
tiptoe(n) - the tip of a toe;
  #2 (v) - tip; tippytoe;walk on one's toes;
  #3 (adj sat) - walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise;
  #4 (adv) - on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe;

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toil(n) - labor; labour;productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
  #2 (v) - dig; drudge; fag; grind; labor; labour; moil; travail;work hard;
token(n) - keepsake; relic; souvenir;something of sentimental value;
  #2 (n) - a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines;
  #3 (n) - something serving as a sign of something else;
  #4 (n) - item;an individual instance of a type of symbol;
  #5 (adj sat) - nominal; tokenish;insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal);
tomb(n) - grave;a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone);
torment(n) - badgering; bedevilment; worrying;the act of harassing someone;
  #2 (n) - curse;a severe affliction;
  #3 (n) - agony; torture;intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain;
  #4 (n) - anguish; torture;extreme mental distress;
  #5 (n) - harassment;a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented;
  #6 (n) - torture;unbearable physical pain;
  #7 (v) - excruciate; torture;subject to torture;
  #8 (v) - excruciate; rack; torture;torment emotionally or mentally;
  #9 (v) - bedevil; crucify; dun; frustrate; rag;treat cruelly;
torpedo(n) - crampfish; electric ray; numbfish;any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges;
  #2 (n) - armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target;
  #3 (n) - a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead;
  #4 (n) - a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface;
  #5 (n) - an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas);
  #6 (n) - bomber; cuban sandwich; grinder; hero; hero sandwich; hoagie; hoagy; italian sandwich; poor boy; sub; submarine; submarine sandwich; wedge; zep;a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States;
  #7 (n) - gun; gun for hire; gunman; gunslinger; hired gun; hit man; hitman; shooter; triggerman;a professional killer who uses a gun;
  #8 (v) - attack or hit with torpedoes;

torque(n) - torsion;a twisting force;
torrent(n) - violent stream;a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid);
  #2 (n) - cloudburst; deluge; downpour; pelter; soaker; waterspout;a heavy rain;
  #3 (n) - deluge; flood; inundation;an overwhelming number or amount;
toss(n) - flip; pass;the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team;
  #2 (n) - an abrupt movement;
  #3 (n) - flip;the act of flipping a coin;
  #4 (v) - agitate;
  #5 (v) - flip; pitch; sky;throw or toss with a light motion;
  #6 (v) - chuck;throw carelessly;
  #7 (v) - convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about;move or stir about violently;
  #8 (v) - flip;lightly throw to see which side comes up;
  #9 (v) - cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss away; toss out;throw or cast away;
totality(n) - aggregate; sum; total;the whole amount;
  #2 (n) - the quality of being complete and indiscriminate;
  #3 (n) - entireness; entirety; integrality;the state of being total and complete;
touchy(adj sat) - delicate; ticklish;difficult to handle; requiring great tact;
  #2 (adj sat) - feisty; huffy; thin-skinned;quick to take offense;

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toughness(n) - formidability;impressive difficulty;
  #2 (n) - temper;the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking;
  #3 (n) - huskiness; ruggedness;the property of being big and strong;
  #4 (n) - stamina; staying power;enduring strength and energy;
tournament(n) - tourney;a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner;
  #2 (n) - a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize;
toxicity(n) - perniciousness;grave harmfulness or deadliness;
  #2 (n) - the degree to which something is poisonous;
tragic(adj sat) - tragical;very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy;
trait(n) - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature;

traitor(n) - betrayer; double-crosser; double-dealer; two-timer;a person who says one thing and does another;
  #2 (n) - treasonist;someone who betrays his country by committing treason;
tramp(n) - hike; hiking;a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure;
  #2 (n) - tramp steamer;a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule;
  #3 (n) - a heavy footfall;
  #4 (n) - hiker; tramper;a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure);
  #5 (n) - swinger;a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex;
  #6 (n) - bum; hobo;a disreputable vagrant;
  #7 (v) - cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; vagabond; wander;move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
  #8 (v) - cross on foot;
  #9 (v) - travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition;
  #10 (v) - footslog; pad; plod; slog; trudge;walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
trample(n) - trampling;the sound of heavy treading or stomping;
  #2 (v) - injure by trampling or as if by trampling;
  #3 (v) - tramp down; tread down;walk on and flatten;
  #4 (v) - tread;tread or stomp heavily or roughly;
tranquil(adj sat) - placid; quiet; smooth; still; unruffled;free from disturbance by heavy waves;
  #2 (adj sat) - calm; serene; unagitated;not agitated; without losing self-possession;
transaction(n) - dealing; dealings;the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities);

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transcribe(v) - convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA;
  #2 (v) - transliterate;rewrite in a different script;
  #3 (v) - make a phonetic transcription of;
  #4 (v) - write out from speech, notes, etc.;
  #5 (v) - rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended;
transcript(n) - copy;a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record);
  #2 (n) - something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech;
transducer(n) - an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another;
transit(n) - passage;a journey usually by ship;
  #2 (n) - theodolite;a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod;
  #3 (n) - transportation; transportation system;a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods;
  #4 (v) - cause or enable to pass through;
  #5 (v) - revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction;
  #6 (v) - pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place);
  #7 (v) - move through; pass across; pass over; pass through;make a passage or journey from one place to another;
transition(n) - passage;the act of passing from one state or place to the next;
  #2 (n) - a passage that connects a topic to one that follows;
  #3 (n) - modulation;a musical passage moving from one key to another;
  #4 (n) - a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another;
  #5 (n) - changeover; conversion;an event that results in a transformation;
  #6 (v) - make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another);
  #7 (v) - cause to convert or undergo a transition;

transplant(n) - transplantation; transplanting;the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location;
  #2 (n) - organ transplant; transplantation;an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient);
  #3 (n) - graft;tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient;
  #4 (v) - transfer; transpose;transfer from one place or period to another;
  #5 (v) - graft;place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient;
  #6 (v) - transfer;lift and reset in another soil or situation;
  #7 (v) - be transplantable;
transpose(n) - a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix;
  #2 (v) - counterchange; interchange;cause to change places;
  #3 (v) - commute; permute;change the order or arrangement of;
  #4 (v) - change key;
  #5 (v) - commute;exchange positions without a change in value;
  #6 (v) - transfer; transplant;transfer from one place or period to another;
  #7 (v) - put (a piece of music) into another key;
  #8 (v) - transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality;
transverse(adj sat) - cross; thwartwise; transversal;extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis;
traverse(n) - traversal;travel across;
  #2 (n) - traversal;taking a zigzag path on skis;
  #3 (n) - transom;a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it;
  #4 (n) - crossbeam; crosspiece; trave;a horizontal beam that extends across something;
  #5 (v) - deny;deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit;
  #6 (v) - cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track;travel across or pass over;
  #7 (v) - cross; span; sweep;to cover or extend over an area or time period;
tread(n) - pace; stride;a step in walking or running;
  #2 (n) - structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step;
  #3 (n) - the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground;
  #4 (n) - the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire;
  #5 (v) - brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center;
  #6 (v) - mate with;
  #7 (v) - crush as if by treading on;
  #8 (v) - trample;tread or stomp heavily or roughly;
  #9 (v) - step;put down or press the foot, place the foot;
  #10 (v) - apply (the tread) to a tire;

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treason(n) - betrayal; perfidy; treachery;an act of deliberate betrayal;
  #2 (n) - high treason; lese majesty;a crime that undermines the offender's government;
  #3 (n) - subversiveness; traitorousness;disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior;
treasurer(n) - financial officer;an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds;
treatise(n) - a formal exposition;
trench(n) - a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth;
  #2 (n) - any long ditch cut in the ground;
  #3 (n) - deep; oceanic abyss;a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor;
  #4 (v) - dig a trench or trenches;
  #5 (v) - ditch;cut a trench in, as for drainage;
  #6 (v) - set, plant, or bury in a trench;
  #7 (v) - cut or carve deeply into;
  #8 (v) - fortify by surrounding with trenches;
  #9 (v) - encroach; entrench; impinge;impinge or infringe upon;
tribal(adj) - relating to or characteristic of a tribe;

trifle(n) - small beer; trivia; triviality;something of small importance;
  #2 (n) - technicality; triviality;a detail that is considered insignificant;
  #3 (n) - a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate;
  #4 (v) - dally; play;consider not very seriously;
  #5 (v) - frivol;act frivolously;
  #6 (v) - piddle; piddle away; wanton; wanton away;waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently;
trigger(n) - induction; initiation;an act that sets in motion some course of events;
  #2 (n) - gun trigger;lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun;
  #3 (n) - a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen;
  #4 (v) - release or pull the trigger on;
  #5 (v) - activate; actuate; set off; spark; spark off; touch off; trigger off; trip;put in motion or move to act;
trillion(n) - 1000000000000; one million million;the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros;
  #2 (n) - one million million million;the number that is represented as a one followed by 18 zeros;
  #3 (n) - billion; gazillion; jillion; million; zillion;a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole);
  #4 (adj sat) - one million million in the United States;
  #5 (adj sat) - one quintillion in Great Britain;
triple(n) - three-bagger; three-base hit;a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base;
  #2 (n) - a quantity that is three times as great as another;
  #3 (n) - triad; trio; triplet;a set of three similar things considered as a unit;
  #4 (v) - treble;increase threefold;
  #5 (v) - hit a three-base hit;
  #6 (adj sat) - ternary; treble; triplex;having three units or components or elements;
  #7 (adj sat) - threefold; three-fold; treble;three times as great or many;
triumphant(adj sat) - victorious;experiencing triumph;
  #2 (adj sat) - exultant; exulting; jubilant; prideful; rejoicing; triumphal;joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success;

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trivial(adj sat) - fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling;small and of little importance;
  #2 (adj sat) - concerned with trivialities;
  #3 (adj sat) - superficial;of little substance or significance;
trolley(n) - streetcar; tram; tramcar; trolley car;a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity;
tropic(n) - either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics;
  #2 (adj sat) - tropical;of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics;
  #3 (adj sat) - tropical;relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator);
trot(n) - a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together;
  #2 (n) - jog; lope;a slow pace of running;
  #3 (n) - crib; pony;a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly);
  #4 (n) - trotskyist; trotskyite;radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution;
  #5 (v) - clip; jog;run at a moderately swift pace;
  #6 (v) - cause to trot;
  #7 (v) - ride at a trot;
trustee(n) - regent;members of a governing board;
  #2 (n) - legal guardian;a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit;

trusty(n) - a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges;
  #2 (adj) - trustworthy;worthy of trust or belief;
tuberculosis(n) - t.b.; tb;infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages);
tuck(n) - rapier;a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges;
  #2 (n) - a narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place;
  #3 (n) - a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest;
  #4 (n) - eatables (especially sweets);
  #5 (v) - gather; pucker;draw together into folds or puckers;
  #6 (v) - insert;fit snugly into;
  #7 (v) - make a tuck or several folds in;
tuition(n) - tutelage; tutorship;teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately);
  #2 (n) - tuition fee;a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education);
tulip(n) - any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower;

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tumor(n) - neoplasm; tumour;an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose;
turbid(adj sat) - cloudy; mirky; muddy; murky;clouded as with sediment;
turbulent(adj sat) - churning; roiled; roiling; roily;agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence;
  #2 (adj sat) - disruptive; riotous; troubled; tumultuous;characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination;