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splice, v. interweave, unite, braid together.
splinter, n. sliver, flinder.
split, v. rive, cleave, sunder, rend, divide, separate, rift, burst, rupture, disunite, disrupt.
split, n. crack, rent, fissure, rift; (Colloq.) breach, separation, disunion, rupture.
split, a. cleft, riven, divided, sundered, rent, disunited cloven.
splitting, n. fission, cleavage, riving, sundering, rupture disruption. a.s.sociated Words: fissile, fissility.
splotch, n. smear, smudge, s.m.u.tch, daub, spot, stain.
spoil, v. plunder, rob, pillage, ravage, depredate, despoil devastate, sack; corrupt, vitiate, debase, mar, demoralize, deprave, sophisticate, infect, defile, contaminate; disfigure, deface, damage; decay, addle, putrefy, rot.
spoil, n. plunder, pillage, booty, prize, gain, loot; waste, robbery, devastation, sacking, rapine, spoliation; corruption, decay, vitiation.
spoke, n. radius, ray; rung, round.
spoken, a. oral, nuncupative, parole.
spokesman, n. speaker, mouthpiece, prolocutor.
sponge, v. imbibe, absorb; expunge, efface, erase, obliterate.
sponger, n. parasite, hanger-on, trencher friend.
spongy, a. porous, spongoid, spongiform, incompact; absorbent, bibulous.
sponsor, n. G.o.dparent; surety. a.s.sociated Words: sponsorial, sponsors.h.i.+p, sponsion, ward, protege.
spontaneous, a. instinctive, voluntary, impulsive, unforced
spontaneous generation. abiogenesis.
spook, n. ghost, spirit, specter, apparition, phantom, hobgoblin.
spooney, a. (Colloq.) silly, sentimental, foolishly fond.
spoor, n. track, trail (of a wild animal).
sporadic, a. separate, single, isolated.
sport, n. amus.e.m.e.nt, game, recreation, fun, play, diversion, pastime, jollity, pleasantry, hilarity, gayety, merriment; derision, mockery, ridicule, jeer; plaything, toy; monstrosity; (Slang) sportsman.
sport, v. frolic, play, caper, disport; (Colloq.) exhibit wear, display.
sportive, a. frolicsome, merry, boon, frisky, sprightly, prankish, gamesome.
spot, n. speck, speckle, mark, blot, discoloration, fleck, dapple, blotch, s.m.u.tch; stain, reproach, blemish, flaw; place, locality; areola, areolet, areolation, ocellus.
spot, v. dapple, variegate, mottle, speckle, blot, sully, stain, maculate.
spotless, a. immaculate, unspotted, stainless, unsullied, irreproachable, blameless.
spotted, a. speckled, dappled, dotted, discolored, variegated, bespeckled, flecked, freckled, spotty, soiled, piebald, mottled, blotched, pinto, pied, pintado, party-colored, specked, plashy, finchbacked, rubican, ocellated.
spotted fever. cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhus fever.
spotted sickness. pint.
spout, v. spurt, squirt, gush; rant, harangue; (Cant) p.a.w.n.
spout, h. nozzle; conduit, trough, adjutage; waterspout; gargoyle; dale.
spouter, n. declaimer, ranter, haranguer.
spout hole. blowhole, spiracle.
spouting, n. harangue, declamation, magniloquence, ranting.
spray, n. twig, sprig, branch.
spray, n. a.s.sociated Words: atomize, atomization, atomizer, spoondrift, nebulize, nebulizer, nebulization.
spread, v. extend, stretch, expand, dilate; unfurl, unroll, open; disseminate, bruit, circulate, propagate, promulgate, diffuse, emit; suffuse; cover, overspread, mantle; expatiate.
spread, n. extent, compa.s.s, reach; (Colloq.) feast; cover.
spreadeagle, a. bombastic, boastful, magniloquent, grandiloquent.
spreading, n. extension, expansion, dilation; dissemination, propagation, promulgation, diffusion, circulation; suffusion, circ.u.mfusion; radiation.
spree, n. (Colloq.) carousal, debauch, revelry, orgies, baccha.n.a.ls, wa.s.sail, saturnalia.
sprig, n. shoot, slip, twig, spray.
sprightliness, n. animation, liveliness, vivacity, activity, briskness, lilt.
sprightly, a. lively, brisk, animated, debonair, vivacious, sportive, gay.
spring, v. dart, shoot; bound, leap, jump, hop, vault; emerge, rise, arise; rebound, recoil, fly back; bend, warp; issue, emanate, originate, flow, arise.
spring, n. leap, bound, saltation, vault, jump; resilience, elasticity, springiness; fount, fountain, source; cause, origin, motive, source; springtime, vernal season.
spring, n. a.s.sociated Word: pegology.
springboard, n. batule, batule board.
