GRE Test Vocabulary and SAT Test Vocabulary High Frequency Words

| The following is a list of high frequency vocabulary words found on multiple exams, Such as the GRE and SAT. Make a study schedule and memorize the following terms to excel on your test.

aberrant: Markedly different form an accepted norm.
aberration: Deviation from a right, customary , or prescribed course
abet: To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
abeyance: A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
abjure: To recant, renounce repudiate under oath.
ablution: A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
abrogate: To abolish, repeal.
abscond: To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest.
abstemious: Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
abstruse: Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
abut: To touch at the end or boundary line.
accede: To agree
acquiesce: To comply; submit
acrid: Harshly pungent or bitter.
acumen: Quckness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.
adamant: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
admonition: Gentle reproof.
adumbrate: To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
affable: Easy to aproach.
aggrandize: To cause to appear greatly.
aggravate: To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
agile: Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
agog: In eager desire.
alacrity: Cheerful willing ness.
alcove: A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
alleviate: To make less burdensome or less hard to bear.
aloof: Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
amalgamate: To mix or blend together in homogeneouse body.
ambidextrous: Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.
ambiguous: Having a double meaning.
ameliorate: To relieve, as from pain or hardship.
anathema: Anything forbidden, as by social usuage.
animadversion: The utterance of criticism or censure.
animosity: Hatred.
antediluvian: Of or pertainging to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
annihilation: distinction, no longer exist
antidote: Anything that will counterract or remove the effects of poision, disease, or the like.
aplomb: Confidence, coolness.
apocryphal: of doubtful authority or authenticity.
apogee: The climax.
apostate: False
apotheosis: Deification.
apparition: Ghost.
appease: To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
apposite: Appropriate.
apprise: To give notice to; to inform
approbation: Sanction.
arboreal: of or pertaing to a tree  or trees.
ardor: intensity of passion or affection.
argot: A specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group.
arrant: Notoriously bad.
ascetic: Given to servere self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion
ascribe: To assign as a quality or attribute.
asperity: Harshness or roughtness of temper.
assiduous: Unceasing; persistent
assuage: To cause to be less harsh, violent, or servere, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
astrigent: Harsh in disposition or character.
astute: Keen in discernment.
atonement: Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
audacious: Fearless.
auspicious: Favorable omen
austere: Serverely simple: unadorned
autocrat: Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence
auxiliary: one who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory.
avarice: Passion for getting and keeping riches.
avert: To avouch, justify or prove
aversion: A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
avow: To declare openly

baleful: Malignant
banal: Commonplace
bask: To make warm by genial heat.
beatify: To make supremely happy
bedaub: To smear over, as with something oily or sticky
bellicose: Warlike
belligerent: Manifesting a warlike spirite.
benefactor: A doer of kindly and charitable acts.
benevolence: Any act of kindness or well-doing
benigh: Good and kind of heart.
berate: To scold severely.
bewilder: To confuse the perceptions or judgment of
blandishment: Flattery intended to presuade.
blatant: Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous.
blithe: Joyous.
boisterous: Unchecked merriment or animal spirts.
bolster: To support, as something wrong.
bombast: Inflated or extravagant language, espcially on unimporant subjects.
boorish: Rude.
breach: The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation.
brittle: Fragile
broach: To mention, for the fires time.
bumptious: Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
buoyant: Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat.
burnish: To make brilliant or shining.

cabal: A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.
cacophony: A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones.
cajole: To impose on or dupe by falttering speech.
callow: Without experience of the world
calumny: slander
candid: straightforward
cant: To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
capacious: roomy
capitulate: To surrender or stipulate terms
captious: Hypercritical
castigate: To punish.
cataract: Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in compleete or partial blindness
caustic: Sarcastic and servere
censure: To criticize serverely: also, an expression fo disapproval.
centurion: A captain of company of one hundred infantry in the acient Roman army
chagrin: Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortifications, as at ones's failures or errors.
chary: Careful; wary; cautious.
chicanery: The use of trickery to deceive.
circumlocution: Indirect or roundabout expression
coddle: To treat as a baby or an invalid.
coerce: to force
coeval: Existing during the same period of time; also, a contemporary
cogent: Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience
cogitate: consider carefully and eeply; ponder
cognizant: Taking notice.
colloquial: pertainging or perculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary
collusion: A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
comestible: Fit to be eaten.
commemorate: To serve as a remembrance of.

denouement: The part of a play in which the mystery is cleared up.
deplete: To reduce or lessen, as by use, exahustion, or waste.
deposition: Testimony legally take on interogatories and reduced to writing, of use as evidence in court.
deprave: To render bad, especially morally bad
deprecate: To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite
deride: to ridicule
derision: ridicule
derivative: Coming or acquired from some origin.
descry: to discern
desiccant: Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
desuetude: A state of disuse or inactivity
desultory: Not connected with what precedes.
deter: To righten aray
dexterity: readiness, precision, efficency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work.
diaphanouse: Transparent.
diatribe: A bitter or malicious criticism
didactic: Pertaining to teaching.
diffidence: Self-distrust.
diffident: Affected or possessed with self-distrust.
dilate: To enlarge in all directions.
dilatory: Tending to cause delay.
disallow: To withhold permission or sanction.
discomfit: To put to confusion.
disconcert: To distube the composure of.
disconsolate: Hopelessly sad; also, saddening; cheerless.
discountenance: To look upon with disfavor.
discredit: To injure the reputation of.
discreet: Judicious.
disheveled: Disordered; disorderly; untidy
dissemble: To hide by pretending something different.
disseminate: To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
dissent: Disagreement.
dissolution: A breaking up of a union of persons.
distraught: Bewildered.
divulge: To tell or make know, as something previously private or secret.
dogmatic: Making statements without argument or evidence.
dormant: Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
dubious: Doubtful.
duplicity: Double-dealing.

earthenware: Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
ebullient: Showing enthusiasm or exhilarationg of feeling.
edacious: Given to eating.
edible: Suitable to be eaten.
educe: To draw out.
effete: Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
efficacy: The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
effrontery: Unblushing impudence.
effulgence: Splendor.
egregious: Extreme.
egress: Any place of exit.
elegy: A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
elicit: To educe or extract gradually or without violence.
elucidate: To bring out more clearly the facts concerning.
emaciate: To waste away in flesh.
embellish: To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features.
embezzle: To misappropriate secretly.
emblazon: To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
encomium: A formal or discriminating expression of praise.
encumbrance: A burdensome and troublesome load.
endemic: Peculiar to some specified country or people.
enervate: To render ineffective or inoperative.
engender: To produce.
engrave: To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
enigma: A riddle.
enmity: Hatred.
entangle: To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications.
entreat: To ask for or request earnestly.
Epicurean: Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
epithet: Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas".
epitome: A simplified representation.
equable: Equal and uniform; also, serene.
equanimity: Evenness of mind or temper.
equanimity: Calmness; composure.
equilibrium: A state of balance.
equivocal: Ambiguous.
equivocate: To use words of double meaning.
eradicate: To destroy thoroughly.
errant: Irregular.
erratic: Irregular.
erroneous: Incorrect.
erudite: Very-learned.
eschew: To keep clear of.
espy: To keep close watch.
eulogy: A spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character.
euphonious: Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
evanescent: Fleeting.
evince: To make manifest or evident.
evoke: To call or summon forth.
exacerbate: To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
exculpate: To relieve of blame.
exhaustive: Thorough and complete in execution.
exigency: State of requiring immediate action; also, an urgent situation; also, that which is required in a critical period or condition.
exorbitant: Going beyond usual and proper limits.
expatiate: To speak or write at some length
expedient: Contributing to personal advantage.
expiate: To make satisfaction or amends for.
explicate: To clear from involvement
expostulate: To discuss.
expropriate: To deprive of possession; also, to transfer (another's property) to onelself.
extant: Still existing and known.
extempore: Without studied or special preparation.
extenuate: To diminish the gravity or importance of.
extinct: Being no longer in existence.
extinguish: To render extinct.
extirpate: To root out; to eradicate.
extol: To praise in the highest terms.
extort: To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
extraneous: Having no essential relation to a subject.
exuberance: Rich supply.

facetiouse: Amusing.
facile: Not difficult to do.
factious: Turbulent.
fallacious: Illogical.
fawn: A young deer.
feint: Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement.
felon: A criminal or depraved person.
ferocity: Savageness.
fervid: Intense.
fervor: Ardor or intensity of feeling.
fidelity: Loyalty.
finesse: Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
flamboyant: Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste.
flippant: Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
florid: Flushed with red.
flout: To treat with contempt.
foible: A personal weakness or failing.
foment: To nurse to life or activity; to encourage.
foppish: Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.
forbearance: Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
forfeit: To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
forgery: Counterfeiting.
forswear: To renounce upon oath.
fragile: Easily broken.
frantic: Frenzied.
frugal: Economical.
fugacious: Fleeting.
fulminate: To cause to expolde.
fulsome: Offensive from excess of praise or commendation.

gainsay: To contradict, to deny.
gamut: The whole range or sequence.
garrulous: Gioven to constant tirvial talking.
germane: Relevant.
gesticulate: To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
glimmer: A faint, wavering, unsteadly light.
gossamer: Filmsy
gourmand: A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
grandiloquent: Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
gregarious: sociable, outgoing.
grievous: Creating affliction.
guile: Duplicity.
gullible: Credulous.

halcyon: Calm.
harangue: A tirade.
harbinger: One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
head: Adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
heinous: Odiously sinful.
heresy: An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
heterogeneous: Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
hirsute: Having a hairy covering.
hoodwink: To deceive.
hospitable: Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
hypocrisy: Extreme insincerity.

iconoclast: An image-breaker.
idiosyncrasy: A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
ignoble: Low in character or purpose.
ignominious: Shameful.
illicit: Unlawful.
imbroglio: A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife.
imbue: To dye; to instill profoundly.
immaculate: Without spot or blemish.
imminent: DAngerous and close at hand.
immutable: Unchangeable.
impair: To cause to become less or worse.
impassive: Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling.
impecunious: Having no money.
impede: To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of.
imperative: Obligatory.
imperiouse: Insisting on obedience.
imperturbable: Calm.
impervious: Impenetrable.
impetuous: impulsive.
impiety: irreverence toward God.
imiplacable: Incapable of being pacified.
implicate: To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
implicit: Implied.
importunate: urgent in character, request, or demand.
importune: To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
impromptu: Anything done or said on theimpulse of the moment.
improvident: Lacking foresight or thrift.
impugn: To assail wiht arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
impute: To attribute.
inadvertent: Accidental
inane: Silly
incessant: Unceasing.
inchoate: incipient.
incipient: Initial.
incite: To rouse to a particular action.
incongruous: Unsuitalbe for the time, place or occasion.
inculcate: To teach by frequenct repetitions.
indelible: That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
indigence: Poverty.
indigenouse: Native.
indistinct: Vague.
indolence: Laziness.
indolent: Havitually inactive or idle.
indomitable: Unconquerable.
indulgent: Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.
ineffable: Unutterable.
ineluctable: impossible to avoid.
inept: Not fit or suitable.
inexorable: Unrelenting.
infuse: To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as principles or qualities.
ingenuous: Candid, frank, or open in character or quality.
inimical: Adverse.
innocuous: Harmless.
inscrutable: Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
insensible: Imperceptible.
insinuate: To imply.
insipid: Tasteless.
insouciant: Nonchalant.
insurrection: The state of being in active resistance to authority.
interdict: Authoritative act of prohibition.
interim: Time between acts or periods.
intransigent: Not capable of being sayed or diverted from a course.
intrepid: Fearless and bold.
introspection: The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
inundate: To fill with an overflowing abundance.
inure: To harden or thoughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
invalid: One who is disabled by illness or injury.
invective: An utterance intended to cast censure, or reporach.
inveight: To utter vehement censure or invective.
inveterate: Habitual.
invidious: Showing or feeling envy.
invincible: Not to be conquered, subdued, or overcome
iota: A small or insignificant mark or part.
irascible: Prone to anger.
irate: Moved to anger.
ire: Wrath.
irksome: Wearisome.
itinerant: Wandering.
itinerate: To wander from place to place.
jocular: Inclined to joke.
jovial: Merry.
judicious: Prudent.
junta: A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.

lachrymose: Given to shedding tears.
lackadaisical: Listless.
languid: Relaxed.
lascivious: Lustful.
lassitude: Lack of vitality or energy
latent: Dormant.
laudable: Praseworthy.
laudatory: Pertaining to, expressing, or containing praise.
legacy: A bequest.
levee: An embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
levity: Frivolity.
lexicon: A dictionary.
libel: Defamation.
licentious: Wanton.
lien: A legal claim or hold on property, as secruity for a debt or charge.
listless: Inattentive.
lithe: Supple
loquacious: Talkative.
lugubrious: INdicating sorrow, often ridiculously.
luminary: one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light.
lustrous: Shining.

malaise: A condition of uneasiness or ill-being.
malcontent: One who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs.
malevolence: Ill will.
malign: To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely.
malleable: Pliant.
massacre: The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings.
maudlin: Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
mawkish: Sickening or insipid.
mellifluous: Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
mendacious: Untrue.
mendicant: A beggar.
meretricious: Alluring by false or gaudy show.
mesmerize: To hypnotize.
meticulous: Over-cautious.
mettle: Courage.
mettlesome: Having courage or spirit
microcosm: The world or universe on a small scale.
mien: The external appearance or manner of a person.
mischievous: Fond of tricks.
miscreant: A villain.
miser: A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
misnomer: A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
moderation: Temperance.
modicum: A small or token amount.
mollify: To soothe.
molt: To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
monomania: The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
morbid: Caused by or denothing a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
mordant: biting
moribund: on the point of dying.
morose: Gloomy.
multifarious: Having great diversity or variety.
mundane: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial.
munificent: Extraordinarily generous.
myriad: A vast indefinite number.

nadir: The lowest point.
nefarious: Wicked in the extreme.
negligent: Apt to omit what ought to be done.
neophyte: Having the character of a beginner
noisome: Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell
nostrum: Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
noxious: Hurtful.
nugatory: Having no power or force.
obdurate: Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
obfuscate: To darken; to obscure.
oblique: Slanting; said of lines.
obsequious: Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
obstreperous: Boisterous.
obtrude: To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
obstrusive: Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
obviate: To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
obdious: Hateful
odium: A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
officious: Intermedding with what is not one's concern.
ominous: Portentous
onerous: Burdensome or oppressive.
onus: A burden or reponsibility.
opprobrium: The state of being scornfully reporached or accused of evil.
ossify: To convert into bone.
ostentation: A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
ostracism: Exclusion form intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
ostracize: To exclude from public or private favor.

palate: The roof of the mouth.
palatial: Magnificent.
palliate: To cause to appear less guilty.
palpable: perceptible by feeling or touch.
panacea: A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all dieases.
panegyric: A formal and elaborate eulogy, wirtten or spoken, of a person or of an act.
panoply: A full set of armor.
paragon: A model of excellence
Pariah: A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
paroxysm: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
parsimonious: Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
partisan: characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
pathos: The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
paucity: Fewness
peccadillo: A samll breach of propriety or principle
pedestrian: One who journeys on foot.
pellucid: Translucent.
penchant: A bias in favor of something.
penurious: Excessively sparing in the use of money.
penury: Indigence.
peregrination: A wandering.
peremptory: Precluding question or appeal
perfidy: Treachery.
perfunctory: Half-hearted.
peripatetic: Walking about
perjury: A solemn assertion of a falsity
permeate: To pervade.
pernicious: Tending to kill or hurt
persiflage: Banter.
perspicacity: Acuteness or discernment.
perturbation: Mental excitement or confusion.
pertrify: To convert into a substance of stony hardness and character.
petulant: Displaying impatience.
phlegmatic: Not easily roused to feeling or action.
physiognomy: The external appearance merely.
pious: Religious.
pique: To excite a slight degree of anger in
placate: To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
platitude: A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
plea: An argument to obtain some desired action.
plenary: Entire.
plethora: Excess; superabudance.
plumb: A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
plummet: A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
poignant: Severely painful or acute to the spirit
polygolt: Speaking several tongues.
ponderous: Unusually weighty or forcible.
portend: To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs
precarious: perilous
preclude: To prevent
precocious: Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
predominate: To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
premature: Coming too soon.
presage: To foretell.
prescience: Knowledge of events before they take place
presumption: That which may be logically assumed to be true unitl disproved
preternatural: Extraordinary.
prevalent: Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
prevaricate: To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
prim: Stiffly proper.
pristine: Primitive.
problity: Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed.
proclivity: A natural inclination.
procrastination: Delay
prodigal: One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
prodigious: Immense.
profligacy: Shameless viciousness.
profligate: Recklessly wasteful
profuse: Produced or displayed in overabundance.
profix: Verbose
propinquity: Nearness.
propitious: Kindly  disposed.
prosaic: Unimaginative.
proscribe: To reject, as a teaching or a practive, with condemnation or denunciation.
protuberant: Bulging.
provident: Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies.
prudence: Caution.
puerile: Childish.
pugnacious: Quarrelsome.
puncitilious: Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescirbed by law or custom.
pungency: The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
pusillanimous: Without spirit or bravery
pyre: A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.

qualm: A fit of nausea.
quandary: A puzzling predicament.
quibble: An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
quiescence: Being quiet, still, or at rest; inactive.
quiescent: Being in a state of repose or inaction.
Quixotic: Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
quotidian: Of an everday character; ordinary

raconteur: A person skilled in telling stories.
ramify: To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
rapacious: Sieze by force, avaricious.
raucous: Harsh.
reactionary: Pertainging to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
rebuff: A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
recalcitrant: Marked by stubborn resistance.
recant: To  withdraw formally one's belief (in    something  previously believed or maintained)
reciprocity: Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
recluse: One who lives in  retirement or seclusion.
recondite: Incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding.
recrudescent: Becoming raw or sore again.
recuperate: To recover.
redoubtable: Formidable.
redress: To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
refractory: Not amenable to control
regale: To give unusal pleasure.
regicide: The killing of a king or sovereign.
reiterate: To say or do  again  and again.
relapse: To suffer a return of a disease after aprtial recovery.
remonstrate: To present a verbal or written protest to those who  have power to  right or prevent a wrong.
renovante: To restore after deterioration, as a building.
repast: A meal; figuratively, any refreshment.
repel: To force or keep back in  manner, physically or mentally.
repine: To indulge in fretfulness and falutfinding
reprobate: One abandoned to depravity and sin.
rhetoric: a way of speaking and thinking.
repudiate: To refuse to have anything to do with.
repulsive: Grossly offensive.
requisite: Necessary
requite: To repay either good or evil to, as to a person
rescind: To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
resilience: The power of springing back to a former position.
resonance: Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
respite: Interval of rest.
restive: Resisting control.
retinue: The group of people who accompany an important person during travels.
revere: To regard with worshipfull veneration.
reverent: Humble.
rebald: Indulging in  or manifesting coarse indecency or obscentiy.
rotund: Round form fullness or plumpness.
ruffian: A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
ruminate: To chew over again, as food previsously swallowed and regurgitated.

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 satisfly fully the appetite or desire of.
satyr: A very lascivious person.
savor: To perceive by taste or smell.
scabbard: The shealth 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 faltterer, especially of those in   authority or influence.
synopsis: A  syllabus or summary.
taciturn:  Disinclined to conversation.