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surmount,
surmounted,
surmounting,
surmounts.transitive
verbs
to overcome (an obstacle, for example); conquer;
to ascend to
the top of; climb
surmountable.adjective
surmounter.noun
summa cum laude.adverb
summa cum laude.adjective
with the greatest honor and highest praise; used
to express the highest academic distinction (graduated summa cum laude);
a summa cum laude graduate
subordinate.adjective
belonging to a lower or inferior class or rank;
secondary; subject to the authority or control of another
subordinate.noun
one that is subordinate
subordinate, subordinated,
subordinating,
subordinates.transitive
verbs
to put in a lower or inferior rank or class; to
make
subservient;
subdue
subordinately.adverb
subordinateness or
subordination.nouns
subordinative.adjective
sundial.noun
an instrument that indicates local apparent
solar time by the shadow cast by a central projecting pointer on a surrounding
calibrated dial
sentimental.adjective
characterized
or swayed by sentiment; affectedly or extravagantly
emotional; resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism;
appealing to the sentiments, especially to romantic feelings; maudlin;
mushy; soppy
sentimentally.adverb
seductive.adjective
tending
to seduce
seductively.adverb
seductiveness.noun
seduce, seduced,
seducing,
seduces.transitive
verbs
to lure;
to lead away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to entice
or beguile into a desired state or position; to win over; attract
seduceable or seducible.adjective
seducer.noun
solution
the result of combining products and services
in a synergistic
way, making the whole greater than the sum of the individual parts
solute.noun
asubstance dissolved in another substance, usually
the component of a solution present
in the lesser amount
solute.adjective
being in solution; dissolved
scholar.noun
a learned person; a specialist in a given branch
of knowledge
scholarly.adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic
of scholars or scholarship (scholarly pursuits; a scholarly edition with
footnotes); learned scholarliness.noun
scholastic.adjective
of or relating to schools; academic;
of, relating to, or characteristic of scholasticism; adhering
rigidly to scholarly methods;
pedantic
scholastic.noun
a scholastic philosopher
or theologian; a dogmatist;
a pedant
scholastically.adverb
scholasticism.noun
the dominant
western Christian theological and philosophical school of the Middle Ages,
based on the authority of the Latin Fathers Vaticanism and of Aristotle
and his commentators; close adherence
to the methods traditions and teachings of a sect
or school
semen.noun
a viscous,
whitish
secretion
of the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa and serving as
their transporting medium
subservient.adjective
subordinate in capacity
or function; obsequious;
servile;
useful as a means or an instrument; serving to promote an end
subservience or subserviency.noun
subserviently.adverb
submit, submitted,
submitting,
submits.verbs
transitive verb use.to
commit (something) to the consideration or judgment of another; propose;
to offer as a proposition or
contention (I submit that the terms are entirely reasonable); to yield
or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another
intransitive verb use.to
allow oneself to be subjected
to something; to give in to the authority, power, or desires of another;
yield
submittal, submitter.nouns
submissive.adjective
inclined or willing to submit;
obedient
submissively.adverb
submissiveness.noun
subdue,
subdued,
subduing,
subdues.transitive
verbs
to conquer and subjugate;
vanquish; defeat; to quiet or bring under control by physical force or
persuasion; make tractable; to
make less intense or prominent;
tone down (subdued my excitement about the upcoming holiday); to bring
(land) under cultivation (farmers subdued the arid lands of Australia)
subduable.adjective
subduer.noun
stint,-stinter.nouns
a fixed amount or share of work allotted;
task; a limitation or restriction; any of several small sandpipers (small
wading birds) of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions
stint, stinted,
stinting,
stints.verbs
transitive verb use.--to
restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with
intransitive verb use.to
subsist
on a meager allowance; be
frugal
stintingly.adverb
suggest, suggested,
suggesting,
suggests.transitive
verbs
to offer for consideration
or action; propose.(suggest
things for children to do; suggested that we take a walk); to bring or
call to mind by logic or association;
evoke.(a
cloud that suggests a mushroom; a ringlike symbol suggesting unity); to
make evident indirectly;
intimate
or imply.(a
silence that suggested acceptance)
suggester.noun
suggestion.noun
the act of suggesting;
something suggested (we ordered the shrimp, a suggestion of the waiter);
the sequential process by which
one thought or mental image leads to another; a hint or trace (she put
on just a suggestion of makeup; the first suggestion of rain coming)
stanza.noun
one of the divisions of a poem, composed
of two or more lines usually characterized
by a common pattern of meter, rhyme,
and number of lines
stanzaic.adjective
shoot, shot,
shooting,
shoots.verbs
transitive verb use.to
hit, wound, or kill with a missile fired from a weapon; to cause to project
or protrude; extend (shot out her arm to prevent the bottle from falling);
to begin to grow or produce; put forth (the young child is shooting up
so fast I have to buy new clothes every month now)
intransitive verb use.to
discharge a missile from a weapon
shoot.noun
the young growth arising from a germinating seed;
a sprout; a bud, young leaf, or other new growth on a plant; a cinematographic
session
shoot down.phrasal
verb
to ruin the aspirations
of; disappoint; to put an end to; defeat (shot down the proposal)
shoot from the hip.idiom.(both
positive and negative)
to talk or deal honestly; to act or speak on a
matter without forethought (shoot off one's mouth or shoot off one's face)
shoot the works.idiom
to expend all of one's efforts or capital (money)
shoot the bull.slang
to spend time talking; talk idly
shooter.noun
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