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souse, v. pickle; douse, immerse, plunge, submerge.
soutane, n. ca.s.sock.
southerner, n. southron.
southern lights. aurora australis.
south wind. Auster, Notus.
souvenir, n. keepsake, reminder, memento; trophy.
sovereign, a. supreme, chief, paramount, predominant; controlling, effectual, efficacious.
sovereign, n. ruler, monarch.
sovereignty, n. dominion, supremacy, sway, empire, scepter, dynasty.
sow, v. propagate, disseminate, scatter, plant.
s.p.a.ce, n. extension, vacancy; vacuum; distance, interval; inters.p.a.ce (intervening s.p.a.ce); interstice; abyss. a.s.sociated Words: plenum, plenist, vacuist, s.p.a.cial.
s.p.a.cious, a. capacious, roomy, vast.
spade, n. spud (narrow_, _with long handle).
Spain, n. Iberia. a.s.sociated Words: Hispanicism, Hispanic, Spanish, Spaniard, Iberian.
span, n. nine inches; team, yoke, pair.
spare, v. forbear, refrain, be merciful.
spare, a. thin, lean, poor, gaunt, meager, lank; superfluous.
sparing, a. economical, frugal, saving, parsimonious, chary; scanty, scarce, meager; compa.s.sionate, indulgent, forbearing, merciful, lenient.
spark, v. court, woo, philander.
sparkle, v. glitter, coruscate, glisten, scintillate, twinkle, gleam.
sparkle, n. scintillation, glitter, gleaming, brilliancy.
sparkling, a. glittering, flas.h.i.+ng, brilliant, twinkling, coruscant, glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering; spirited, vigorous, impa.s.sioned, bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.
spa.r.s.e, a. scattered, thin, innumerous, meager.
Spartan, a. hardy, undaunted, courageous, doughty.
spasm, n. convulsion, paroxysm, fit, throe.
spasmodic, a. intermittent, fitful, convulsive.
spat, n. tiff, quarrel, dispute, dissension.
spats, n. pl. gaiters, spatterdashes.
sp.a.w.n, n. roe, ova, eggs (of fishes_, _frogs, etc.); mycelium.
speak, v. utter, p.r.o.nounce, say, articulate, enunciate, express, talk; discourse, address, declaim, harangue, preach, lecture, rant, descant, expatiate; accost, address; declare, publish, proclaim, announce, bruit. Antonyms: repress, suppress, refrain.
speaker, n. orator, discourser, spokesman, prolocutor, mouthpiece, interlocutor, chairman.
speaking alone. monologue, soliloquy.
speaking together. conference, collocution.
spear, n. lance, javelin, harpoon, a.s.sagai, trident, jireed; shoot, spire, blade.
special, a. particular, especial, specific, exceptional.
specialty, n. particularity; speciality.
specie, n. coin, cash, metallic money.
species, n. group, cla.s.s, kind, brood, sort, variety.
specific, a. definite, precise, specified; characteristic, particular, special.
specify, v. designate, particularize, individualize, name.
specimen, n. example, sample, model, copy, pattern.
specious, a. plausible; obvious, manifest.
speck, n. spot, stain; atom, mite, particle, bit.
speckle, v. speck, spot, dot.
speckled, a. spotted, mottled.
spectacle, n. scene, sight, show, exhibition, pageant.
spectator, n. beholder, witness, bystander, onlooker, observer.
specter, n. phantom, apparition, shade, ghost, manes, spirit, wraith, spook.
spectral, a. phantomlike, ghostly.
speculate, v. theorize, meditate, conjecture, guess, think.
