NLN PAX A-Z Vocabulary
sagacious -: Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
salacious -: Having strong sexual desires.
salient -: Standing out prominently.
salubrious -: Healthful; promoting health.
salutary -: Beneficial.
sanction -: To approve authoritatively.
sanguine -: Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
sardonic -: Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
satiate -: To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
satyr -: A very lascivious person.
savor -: To perceive by taste or smell.
scabbard -: The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
scintilla -: The faintest ray.
scribble -: Hasty, careless writing.
sedulous -: Persevering in effort or endeavor.
sequence -: The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one
another in space or time.
severance -: Separation.
shrewd -: Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
sinecure -: Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
sinuous -: Curving in and out.
skiff -: Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
,sluggard -: A person habitually lazy or idle.
solace -: Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
solvent -: Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
somniferous -: Tending to produce sleep.
somnolent -: Sleepy.
sonorous -: Resonant.
sophistry -: Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly
deceptive.
soporific -: Causing sleep; also, something that causes sleep.
sordid -: Filthy, morally degraded
specious -: Plausible.
spurious -: Not genuine.
squalid -: Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
stanch -: To stop the flowing of; to check.
stigma -: A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of
evil-doing.
stingy -: Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
stolid -: Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
submerge -: To place or plunge under water.
subterfuge -: Evasion.
succinct -: Concise.
sumptuous -: Rich and costly.
supercilious -: Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
superfluous -: Being more than is needed.
,supernumerary -: Superfluous.
supersede -: To displace.
supine -: Lying on the back.
supplicate -: To beg.
suppress -: To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
surcharge -: An additional amount charged.
surfeit -: To feed to fullness or to satiety.
susceptibility -: A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
sybarite -: A luxurious person.
sycophant -: A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
synopsis -: A syllabus or summary.
taciturn -: Disinclined to conversation.
taut -: Stretched tight.
temerity -: Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.
terse -: Pithy.
timorous -: Lacking courage.
torpid -: Dull; sluggish; inactive.
torrid -: Excessively hot.
tortuous -: Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
tractable -: Easily led or controlled.
transgress -: To break a law.
transient -: One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
transitory -: Existing for a short time only.
, travail -: Hard or agonizing labor.
travesty -: A grotesque imitation.
trenchant -: Cutting deeply and quickly.
trepidation -: Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
trite -: Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
truculence -: Ferocity.
truculent -: Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
turbid -: In a state of turmoil; muddled
turgid -: Swollen.
turpitude -: Depravity.
tutelage -: The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
tyro -: One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
ubiquitous -: Being present everywhere.
ulterior -: Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
umbrage -: A sense of injury.
unctuous -: Oily.
undermine -: To subvert in an underhand way.
undulate -: To move like a wave or in waves.
untoward -: Causing annoyance or hindrance.
upbraid -: To reproach as deserving blame.
vagary -: A sudden desire or action
vainglory -: Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
valorous -: Courageous.
sagacious -: Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
salacious -: Having strong sexual desires.
salient -: Standing out prominently.
salubrious -: Healthful; promoting health.
salutary -: Beneficial.
sanction -: To approve authoritatively.
sanguine -: Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
sardonic -: Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
satiate -: To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
satyr -: A very lascivious person.
savor -: To perceive by taste or smell.
scabbard -: The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
scintilla -: The faintest ray.
scribble -: Hasty, careless writing.
sedulous -: Persevering in effort or endeavor.
sequence -: The order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one
another in space or time.
severance -: Separation.
shrewd -: Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances.
sinecure -: Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
sinuous -: Curving in and out.
skiff -: Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
,sluggard -: A person habitually lazy or idle.
solace -: Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
solvent -: Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
somniferous -: Tending to produce sleep.
somnolent -: Sleepy.
sonorous -: Resonant.
sophistry -: Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly
deceptive.
soporific -: Causing sleep; also, something that causes sleep.
sordid -: Filthy, morally degraded
specious -: Plausible.
spurious -: Not genuine.
squalid -: Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
stanch -: To stop the flowing of; to check.
stigma -: A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of
evil-doing.
stingy -: Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
stolid -: Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
submerge -: To place or plunge under water.
subterfuge -: Evasion.
succinct -: Concise.
sumptuous -: Rich and costly.
supercilious -: Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
superfluous -: Being more than is needed.
,supernumerary -: Superfluous.
supersede -: To displace.
supine -: Lying on the back.
supplicate -: To beg.
suppress -: To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
surcharge -: An additional amount charged.
surfeit -: To feed to fullness or to satiety.
susceptibility -: A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
sybarite -: A luxurious person.
sycophant -: A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
synopsis -: A syllabus or summary.
taciturn -: Disinclined to conversation.
taut -: Stretched tight.
temerity -: Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.
terse -: Pithy.
timorous -: Lacking courage.
torpid -: Dull; sluggish; inactive.
torrid -: Excessively hot.
tortuous -: Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
tractable -: Easily led or controlled.
transgress -: To break a law.
transient -: One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
transitory -: Existing for a short time only.
, travail -: Hard or agonizing labor.
travesty -: A grotesque imitation.
trenchant -: Cutting deeply and quickly.
trepidation -: Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
trite -: Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
truculence -: Ferocity.
truculent -: Having the character or the spirit of a savage.
turbid -: In a state of turmoil; muddled
turgid -: Swollen.
turpitude -: Depravity.
tutelage -: The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
tyro -: One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
ubiquitous -: Being present everywhere.
ulterior -: Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
umbrage -: A sense of injury.
unctuous -: Oily.
undermine -: To subvert in an underhand way.
undulate -: To move like a wave or in waves.
untoward -: Causing annoyance or hindrance.
upbraid -: To reproach as deserving blame.
vagary -: A sudden desire or action
vainglory -: Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
valorous -: Courageous.
