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sedition, n. rebellion, revolt, insurrection, riot, mutiny, insubordination.
seditious, a. rebellious, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous.
seduce, v. entice, tempt, betray, allure.
seducement, n. seduction, enticement.
seducer, n. Lothario.
seduction, n. enticement, temptation, allurement, lure.
seductive, a. alluring, attractive, siren, enticing.
see, v. perceive, descry, view, behold, witness, espy; discern, distinguish, observe, note, notice, observe, understand, grasp; watch, regard, look after; accompany, escort; interview, visit. Antonyms: overlook, ignore, miss, skip, connive at.
seed, n. s.e.m.e.n, sperm; first principle, origin, source.
seed, n. kernel, grain, pip, ovule. a.s.sociated Words: carpology, spermologist, seminal, semination, seminific, spermophyte, angiosperm, pericarp, angiospermous, carpolite, germinate, germination, achene, carpel, spermophyta, silique, silicle, weevil, chorion, testa, tegmen, endopleura, capsule, pod.
seedy, a. (Colloq.) shabby, tacky, threadbare; spiritless.
seeing, n. perception, viewing, espial, descrying, beholding; discernment, observation, comprehension; sight, vision. Antonyms: imperception, blindness, connivance. See sight.
seek, v. search for, hunt; aim at, strive after, attempt.
seeming, n. appearance, show, semblance, speciousness, guise, look.
seemingly, adv. apparently, ostensibly.
seemly, a. becoming, suitable, proper, appropriate, meet, befitting.
seep, v. percolate.
seer, n. prophet, vaticinator, predictor, diviner.
seething, a. boiling, ebullient.
segment, n. section, part, portion, piece; (Biol.) metamere, somite, somatome.
seize, v. apprehend, s.n.a.t.c.h, clutch, catch, gripe, grasp, grapple; arrest; confiscate, usurp, appropriate; distrain, distress.
seizure, n. apprehension, grasping; capture; confiscation, usurpation.
seldom, adv. infrequently, rarely.
select, v. pick out, choose, prefer, cull, single out, elect.--a. choice. Antonyms: promiscuous, indiscriminate.
selecting, a. elective, eclectic.
selection, n. choice, election, preference, pick; collection, a.s.sortment. Antonyms: promiscuity, indiscrimination.
self, n. ego, person, individual. a.s.sociated Words: egoism, egoist, egoistic, egotism, egotist, egotistical.
self-abas.e.m.e.nt, n. self-degradation, humility, meekness.
self-abuse, n. masturbation, onanism, secret vice, self-pollution.
self-acting, a. automatic.
self-conceit, n. egotism, overweening, priggishness, vanity.
self-conceited, a. egotistical, vain, overweening, priggish, opinionated, b.u.mptious, conceited.
self-consumption, n. autophagy.
self-defense, n. a.s.sociated Word:: jujutsu.
self-deification, n. autotheism.
self-denial, n. self-abnegation, asceticism, self-sacrifice, abstemiousness. Antonyms: self-indulgence, sensuality, voluptuousness.
self-denying, a. self-sacrificing, unselfish, ascetic, abstemious.
self-evident, a. axiomatic, obvious.
self-examination, n. introspection; autoscopy.
self-explanatory, a. obvious.
self-fear, n. self-distrust, autophoby.
self-fertilization, n. autogamy.
self-government, n. self-control; democracy; autonomy. Antonyms: subjection, heteronomy, abandon, subordination.
self-heating, a. idiothermic.
self-importance, n. pompousness, pomposity, vanity, conceit.
self-important, a. pompous, vain, opinionated, b.u.mptious.
selfish, a. ungenerous, narrow, illiberal, uncharitable.
self-knowledge, n. autology.
self-murderer, n. suicide, _felo-de-se_.
self-possessed, a. composed, unruffled, sedate, calm, collected.
