English Wordbook/S

From The Anglish Moot

Staff S of the English Wordbook.

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sacred	adj	holy
sacrosanct	adj	holy, hallowed
safe	adj	shielded, sheltered, unharmed
sagacity	n	wisdom
Saint (St.)	epithet	Holy
saint	n	holyman
salmon	n	lox
salary	n	year's pay, earnings, income, salt
salutary	n	healthy, healthful, well, whole, hearty, sound, hale
salutation	n	greeting, welcome
sanctify	vb	hallow
sanctuary	n	haven, grith, holyroom, hallow
sapience	n	wisdom
sapient	adj	wise, thoughtful
satchel	n	knapsack, rucksack,
satiate	vb	fulfill, quench, slake
satire	n	wry scolding, scoldcraft
satirist	n	scold
satisfaction	n	aftergladness
satisfy	vb	slake, fulfill, aftergladden, sate, quench
saturate	vb	sop, soak, steep
sauce	n	dip
sauna	n	steam room, hot-house, hotroom, sweatbath
sausage	n	pudding, banger
save	vb	hain, stow, hoard, spare, heal
saviour	n	halend, healer
scale	vb	climb, go up
scar	n	healmark, woundheal, skinmark, woundfleck, wale, weal, wheal, wen, welt
scarce	adj	short, scanty
scarcely	adv	hardly, barely, only, a little, ever so little, slightly, weakly
scarcity	n	lack, shortness, seldomness, fewness, dearth
scatter	vb	broadcast, cast, deal out, go-off, go through, let go, oversow, overspread, put to flight, spread, strew
scene	n	scape
scholar	n	lorechild, learned man, thinker, brainwright, man of books
scholarship	n	bookhood
school	n	lorehall, lorehouse
science	n	witship, lore,learncraft, wisecraft
scintillate	vb	sparkle, flash, shine
scintillating	adj	sparkling
scissors	n	shears
scrotum	n	ballbag, cod
search	vb	seek, comb, delve
search word	n	seekword
season	n	yeartide
sebum	n	tallow
secret	adj	hushhush, hidden
secret	n	hushthought, hushword
secrete	vb	hide, seep, leak, ooze
secular	adj	worldly
secure	adj	belayed, fast, steadfast
secure	vb	belay, fasten
sediment	n	dregs, silt, draff, dross
segregation	n	aparthood, asunderhood
seizure	n	fit
select	vb	choose, pick, wale
self-esteem	n	self-worth
selvedge	vb & n	forel
semester	n	sixmonth, half-year
seminar	n	workshop
sempiternity	n	endlessness, unendinghood, alwayness, everlastingness
semi-	pref	half-
senile	adj	old, elderly, doted
senior citizens	n	elderly, old folks, eldfolk, eldman
sensate	adj	feeling
sensation	n	feeling
sensational	adj	amazing
sense	n	feeling, meaning
sense	vb	feel
sensitive	adj	feeling, keen, sharp
sentence	n	wordstring; byword, saw; judging
sentence	vb	doom
sententious	adj	pithy
sentiment	n	feeling
separate	vb	sunder, split
separate	adj	sundry, freestanding
September	n	holymonth, sheddingmonth
serious	adj	earnest, unfunny, grave
seriously	adv	earnestly, thoroughly, wholeheartedly, with heart & soul, willingly, agoodly, weightily
serpent	n	snake
servant	n	housekeeper, maid (fm.), dey (fm.), bondsman, loaf-eater
serve	vb	stead, bestead
session	n	sitting, stint
several	adj	sundry
severe	adj	stern, hard, harsh, tough, unyielding
severely	adv	badly, bitterly,not mildy, sharply, roughly, keenly, unfeelingly
sex	n	folkhalf
sex act	n	swive, fuck, screw, shag, houghmagandie
sexual reproduction	n	breeding, swiveful matchyielding, swiveful matchbearing
shantytown	n	tinstow, hutstead, soweto
sign	n	token, shingle
sign	vb	underwrite
signal	n	bale-fire, beacon
signal	vb	beckon
significantly	adj	weightily
signify	vb	betoken
silence	n	stillness
silhouette	n	outline, shadow
similar	adj	like, alike, same, likekind; much of a muchness, much the same, not unlike, something like, near, nearly
similarity	n	alikeness
similarly	adv	likewise
simple	adj	straightforward, fewfold
simpleton	n	half-wit, gowk
single (trip)	n	one-way
site	n	stead, setting, ground
site	vb	put
situation	n	setting
slanderer	n	backbiter, knocker
slave	n	thrall
slave driver	n	hardmaster, harry-goad
slavery	n	thralldom
sluggard	n	slug, slacker, sloth, slouch, loafer, bum, deadbeat, do-nothing, idler, sleepyhead, drone
socialize	vb	chat, hobnob
society	n	fellowship, club, guild, folkset, folkweld
sociology	n	kithlore
sofa	n	settee
soil	n	earth
skeleton	n	frame, boneframe, bodyframe
solar	adj	sun (in compounds)
sole	adj	only
solicit	vb	seek
solitary	n	lonesome, alone, unkithed and unkinned
solitude	n	loneliness, aloneness
solstice	n	sunwend
solution	n	loosening, answer
somnolent	adj	drowsy, sleepy, yawny, weary, heavy-eyed, half-asleep, sloomy
sophisticated	adj	worldly
sorority	n	sisterhood
sort	n	kind
sound	n	loud, din, pitch
soup	n	broth
source	n	springhead, root, stem, beginning, start, rise, wellhead, wellspring
source code	n	wroughtdraught, working draught
souvenir	n	keepsake
space	n	room
spacious	adj	roomy
spasm	n	throe, pang
special	adj	byous
specific	adv	ahone
specifically	adv	ahonely
specified	adj	hone, spell out
spectacles	n	glasses
spectator	n	bystander, onlooker
spend	vb	outlay
speleothem	n	dripstone, dropstone
spending	n	outlay
spine	n	backbone
spiral	n	whorl
spirit	n	ghost (as in soul), elf, wraith (as in specter)
spirit	n	might
spleen	n	milt
spoil	vb	rot, mar
sponsor	vb	back, stake, underwrite, uphold
spool	n	reel
sports	n	games
sporty	adj	gamesome
spouse	n	helpmeet, helpmate
spy	vb	keek
square	n	(of a town), folkstead
squid	n	inkfish
stagnant	adj	forstilled, gone orf
stain	n	spot, fleck, blot
stanch/staunch	vb	stem, halt
standard	n	set way (of), benchmark
standardize	vb	set down a way
state	n	rike, shire
status	n	standing
stay	vb	linger, be left, tarry
stellar	adj	star (in compounds)
stelliferous	adj	starry, star-filled
sternum	n	breastbone
stimulate	vb	kittle, whet, quicken
stomach	n	belly, bouk, midriff, maw
stomach	vb	bear, abide, brook, swallow, take, withstand
stop	vb	give over, bring to a standstill
stop	n	standstill, break, shutdown
store	n	shop, outlet, hoard, stock, warehouse
store	vb	keep, hoard,
story	n	tale, saga, yarn
strange	adj	odd, weird, uncouth, unbeknown, queer
strangle	vb	throttle
stratagem	n	wile
structure	n	framework, shapework, brandrod
student	n	schooler (as in highschooler), learner
studio	n	workroom, workfloor
study	n	reading room, drawing room
study	vb	learn, learn about
stuff	vb	pack
stupefy	vb	bewilder
stupid	adj	dumb, dull, dim, daft, dumheaded
stylish	adj	dapper
subconcious	n	undermind, nethermind
subdue	vb	overcome, quell
submarine	n	underseaboat (Calque of German 'Unterseeboot')
subordinate	n	underling
subjugate	vb	yoke
subjugation	n	yoke
submerge	vb	overwhelm, dip, dunk
submissive	adj	weak
submit	vb	yield, buckle, abow, give in, bend to, come over to, fall in with, go along with, put up with; put forward, bring before, set down
subsequent	adj	following, later
substance	n	pith
substantial	adj	sound, strong, heavy
substitute	n	ersatz
subterranean	adj	underground
subtract	vb	take away
suburbs	n	outerborough(s), outskirts,
subvert	vb	overthrow
succeed (in)	vb	win (in)
successful	adj.	thriving, fruitful, well-ended, winning
successor	n	aftercomer
succour	n	food, help, bread, manna, heavenly-food
succour	vb	help, run to, breadcast (phr) free from hunger, drop food,
suet	n	tallow, wightfat
suffer	vb	bear, thole, undergo, stand, put up with, live through, given to, abide, brook, not forbid, adree
suffice	vb	be enough, answer, do
sufficient	adj	enough
suffocate	vb	choke, achoke, throttle, smother, stop the breath
suicide	n	selfslaughter, selfmurder
suit	n	outfit
suit	vb	befit, beseem
suitable	adj	seemly, fitting, becoming, comely
sullen	adj	sulky
sulphur	n	brimstone
summary	n	outline, rundown
summit	n	peak, top, brow, cop, knap
superficial	adj	shallow, skin-deep
superfluous	adj	overmuch, underneeded, more than is needed
superior	n & vb	better, higher
superiority	n	higherness, betterhood, overmight
superstructure	n	overworks
supervise	vb	oversee
supervisor	n	overseer, foreman, overlooker
supple	adj	lithe
supplement	vb	eke
supply	vb	keep full, fill up, give, hand over
support	vb	back, uphold, help, strengthen, underpin, bolster, bear, carry, shore, shore up
support	n	prop, crutch
suppose	vb	trow, guess, reckon, feel, gather, hold as, look upon as, mean to say, take to be, think likely,
suppress	vb	hold down, keep in, crush, quell
surface	n	topside, skin, husk
surgery	n	fleshwork, cutwork
surname	n	aftername
surpass	vb	overtake, outdo, beat
surplice	n	nightshirt, sark
surplus	n	overmuch
surprize	n	wonder, unforeseen meeting, sudden hap
surprize	vb	take aback, strike with wonder, floor, waylay, come upon, take unaware, fall upon
surprizing	adj	wondering, dumbfounding, flooring, earthshaking
surrender	vb	yield, give up
surround	vb	girt, bego, umclap, umclip, beset
surrounded	adj	begone, girt, beset
surrounding	adj	outlying
survey	vb	behold, look upon, ingather
survive	vb	live through, outlive, outlast, belive
suspend	vb	hang
suspicion	n	misgiving
suspicious	adj	shady, queer, misdeemful
sustain	vb	keep going, bear, bolster, uphold
sustenance	n	food
svelte	adj	slim
sweet potato	n	sweet shaderoot
sycophant	n	backscratcher, bootlicker, fawner, fleecher, mealymouth, selfseeker
symbol	n	token
symbolise	vb	betoken
symptom	n	betokener of ill health, forerunner
synopsis	n	outline
synthetic	adj	man-made
syphillis	n	great pox
system	n	framework, make-up, set-up