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sack
pink slip, the boot, the chop, the elbow, one's cards
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sacrosanct
inviolable, sacred
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sad
atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue
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sadness
blueness, tristesse, mirthless, blues, crestfallenness
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safe
guarded, invulnerable, OK, out of harm's way, protected
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sage
loremaster, oracle, savant, philosopher
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saggy
loose-fitting
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Sagittarius
Toxotes, Archer
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sailboat
sailing boat, sailing ship, sailing vessel
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sailor
jack, jacktar, lobscouser, mariner, matelot
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sainthood
hallowdom
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salacious
ardent, hot, dirty, lubricious
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sale
vend, vent
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salt
sal
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salty
haline, saline, salt
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Samar
Novomoskovsk, Yekaterinoslav
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Sammy
Sam
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sample
example, specimen
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sanctify
hallow
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sanction
ban, boycott, estoppel, injunction, interdiction
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sandbox
sandpit:
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sandwich
butty, grinder, piece, sambo, sammich
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sane
balanced, compos mentis, in possession of one's faculties, lucid, rational
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sanity
buttons, lucidity, lucidness, marbles, mind
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Sanju
Sangzhu, Sang-chu
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sarcasm
derision, facetiousness, irony, ridicule, satire
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sarcastic
sarky, snarky
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Satan
Aduwallah, Adversary, Al-Shaytaan, Antichrist, archfiend
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sated
satiate, satisfied, satiated, full
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satisfactory
acceptable, adequate, all right, close enough, average
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satisfied
happy
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satisfy
abound, amuse, appease, assuage, captivate
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sauce
sowl
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Saudi
Saudi Arabian
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sauna
firebath
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savage
animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, barbarous
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savant
erudite, expert
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say
blather, dictate, gab, report, speak
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saying
maxim, proverb, saw, expression, byword
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scabby
scabrous, roynish, scabrate, scabrid, scald
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scaled
squamous
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scaly
scaled, scarious, squamate, squamated, squamiferous
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scapegoat
sacrificial lamb, escapegoat, fall guy, folk devil, goat
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scar
cicatrice, cicatrix
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scarab
cockchafer, dung beetle, June bug, scarabaeus, scarab beetle
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scarce
geason, infrequent, raresome
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scarcely
hardly
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scarcity
rareness, rarity, deficiency, lack, infrequency
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scare
fright, frighten, terrify
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scarecrow
bird-scarer, crow scarer, crowkeeper, frayboggard, gallicrow
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scarlet
scarlet red
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scat
scag
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scheme
hatch, intrigue
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schizophrenia
dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
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science
sci, sci.
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scientific
systematic, sciential, ultrascientific
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scientifically
systemwise
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scissors
scissor, switch
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score
earn, obtain
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Scorpius
Scorpio, Scorpion
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screaming
screeching, shrieking
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screech
screak
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screwed
dicked, shagged
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scribe
amanuensis, scrivener, tabellion
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scrotum
bag, ball bag, ballsac, ballsack, ballpark
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scrounge
beg, bum, mump, scunge, tap
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scruff
nape, nucha, nuchal, withers
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scrutiny
examination, exploration, inquiry, going-over, inspection
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scuttle
cowl
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search
scour, seek, comb
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season
grow up, mature, alloy, intermingle
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second
other
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secrecy
dern
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secret
dern, hidden and Thesaurus:covert
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secretarial
secretarian
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secretary
administrator, assistant, administrative assistant, amanuensis, clerk
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secular
areligious, civil, earthly, irreligious, laicist
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see
behold, descry, espy, observe, view
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seemingly
ostensibly, prima facie
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seep
leak
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segregation
apartheid, Jim Crow law
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self
cyberself, herself, himself, itself, myself
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selfish
egocentric, egoistical, every man for himself, idiocentric, individualistic
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sell
cheap, flog, hawk, monger, peddle
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semifinal
last four, semi
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seminar
ovular
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senior
long in the tooth, on in years, masters, veteran
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sensation
feeling, perception
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sense
non-nonsense
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sensitive
aware, caring, classified, compassionate, nesh
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sensory
sensely, sensible, sensual, sensuous, sensatory
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sentence
verdict, conviction
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sentient
intelligence, sapient, sophont
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separate
detached, discrete, distinct, disparate, loose
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separation
detachment, departition, disassociation, disconnection, discontinuity
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sequel
postquel
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sequence
array, chain, procession, consecution, series
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serenity
sereneness, tranquility, tranquillity, harmony, peace
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series
serie
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serious
austere, frightful, demure, grave, earnest
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serpent
adder, edder, snake
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serrated
serrate
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serve
attend, bestand, aid, wait on, attend to
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service
attend, wait on, go to bed with, sleep with
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servile
abject, duteous, meek, slavish, submissive
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set
set theory
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settle
adjust, arrange, compose, decide, determine
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seventies
1970s, '70s, 70s
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sever
becut, cut off
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severity
severeness
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sew
stitch
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sewage
wastewater
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sex
get it on, have sex
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sexless
sex-free, sexfree, loveless
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sexy
arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable
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shake
jiggle, shag, quake, tremble, vibrate
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shallow
superficial
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sham
mock
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shame
also: Thesaurus:shame, abasement, disgrace, dishonour, embarrassment
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shameful
despicable
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shape
form, Gestalt, mold, shapen
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shaped
-form, shapen
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shapeshifter
shape-shifter
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shark
haye
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sharp
on the dot, precisely
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sharpen
hone, whet
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sharpness
clarity, distinctness, focus, acuteness, acuity
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shatter
shiver
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Shea
shea tree, vitellaria, B. paradoxum, Butyrospermum parkii
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sheep
Ovis
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sheer
diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through
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shh
hush, shush
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shield
bathroom
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shill
shillaber
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shine
beam, beshine, glow, gleam, illuminate
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shining
fulgent, aglow, alight, beamful, beamsome
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shiny
gleamy, glisteny, mirrorlike, mirrory, relucent
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shirk
shrink, blow off, cop out, dog, doss
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shoal
school
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shoe
kick, calceate
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shook
stook, shooketh
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shop
retail outlet, store, metal shop, metalwork, machine shop
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shoplift
shop steal
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short
low, scrimp, shortsome, stubbed, stubby
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shorten
abbreviate, abridge, chop down, chop off, cut short
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should
ought
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shout
call, cry, holler, halloo, roar
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show
big leagues
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showy
gaudy
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shrew
battle axe, brim, brimstone, crow, cat
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