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snowy, a. niveous, snowlike.
snub, v. slight, ignore, disregard.
snub, n. slight, check, rebuke.
snuff, n. maccaboy, rappee; sniff.
snug, a. cozy; concealed, close; comfortable, compact.
snuggle, v. nestle, cuddle.
soak, v. drench, saturate; absorb, imbibe; macerate imbrue, steep.
soaked, a. drenched, saturated, sodden.
soaking, a. drenching, saturating.
soap, n. a.s.sociated Words: saponify, saponification, saponifiable, saponin, lather, suds.
soapiness, n. saponacity.
soap liniment. opodeldoc.
soapstone, n. steat.i.te.
soapy, a. saponaceous.
sob, v. weep.
sober, a. temperate, abstinent, abstemious; unintoxicated; solemn, grave, demure, sedate; dispa.s.sionate, unimpa.s.sioned, calm, rational.
sobriety, n. soberness; gravity.
sociable, a. affable, friendly, companionable, genial, social, unreserved. Antonyms: unsociable, inaffable.
social, a. civil, civic; sociable; festive, convivial.
social evil. prost.i.tution.
socialism, n. Communism, Fourierism, Saint Simonianism, humanitarianism.
society, n. sodality, a.s.sociation, fraternity, club, confraternity, guild; _verein_ (Ger.); companions.h.i.+p, a.s.sociation, fellows.h.i.+p, company.
sockdologer, n. (Slang) poser, facer, settler, conclusive answer.
sod, n. sward, turf; peat.
sodden, a. boiled, seethed; soaked, saturated.
sofa, n. tete-a-tete, divan, causeuse.
soft, a. mellow; yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable, fictile, plastic, pliable; bland, emollient, grateful, delicate, subdued; flexible, flaccid, facile, compliant, irresolute; conciliatory, mild; effeminate, unmanly silly, foolish; queachy.
soft coal. bituminous coal.
soften, v. intenerate, mollify; palliate, extenuate, qualify, modify, relax, mitigate, emolliate, appease, temper, abate; subdue, tone down.
softening, a. demulcent, lenient, a.s.suasive, emollient, relaxing, mollient, mollifying.
softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.
soft parts of the body. a.s.sociated Word: sarcology.
soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe, wheedling, cajolery, flattery.
soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt, pollution, defilement; manure, dung, faeces, excrement.
soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint, besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.
soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; cha.s.seur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.
soldierly, a. martial, military.
soldier's dress. uniform, regimentals.
solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.
solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august, majestic.
solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.
solicit, v. ask, seek, request.
solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.
solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding, imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided. Antonyms: porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.
solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity; validity.
soliloquy, n. monologue.
solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.
solitary, n. recluse, anch.o.r.et, hermit, eremite.
solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement; wilderness. a.s.sociated Words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.
solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution, disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.
