Service: Any work done for the benefit of another.
Serviceable: functional, useful, working, operative, able to be used
Example: [He was good at a dinner-table, serviceable with a gun, and always happy on horseback. Dave Williams presented the Goodwins with a good driving horse and a light spring wagon, while his two sons donated jointly an old but still serviceable saddle horse and a saddle]
Servile: obedient slavish
Example: [servile attitude]
Servitude: bondage, slavery, subjection, enslavement, domination
Example: [a body of fugitives living in servitude]
Session: meeting
Example: [The parliamentary session]
Sever: cut in two
Example: [Her foot was severed from her leg in a car accident]
Severance: division
Example: [a severance agreement]
Severely: Extremely.
Severity: harshness
Sextet: A band of six singers or players.
Sextuple: Multiplied by six.
Shackle: bond, thing which hampers movement, handcuff chain
Shady: filled with shade, shaded, suspicious, dishonest, disreputable
Example: [The shady gardens and sunny terrace were the scene of many social gatherings]
Sham: pretense
Example: [a sham marriage]
Shambles: disorder
Example: [Our economy is in a shambles]
Shard: fragment, broken piece, sharp piece of broken pottery or glassware
Example: [On the floor under where it should have been I caught the flash of light from a shard of glass]
Sheaf: any bundle of things tied together bundle of stalks of grain
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Sheathe: place into a case
Sheepish: timid shy
Example: [a sheepish smile]
Sheer: Absolute.
Sherbet: flavored dessert ice
Shibboleth: password
Example: [the old shibboleths of education]
Shiftless: dishonest, lazy, dubious, untrustworthy, deceitful
Example: [a shiftless husband]
Shimmer: soft quivering light
Shoal: reef
Shoddy: not genuine, sham, inferior
Example: [shoddy workmanship]
Shortcomings: deficiencies
Example: [Like any political system, it has its shortcomings]
Shrew: virago
Shrewd: clever
Example: [a shrewd politician]
Shriek: screech, shout, loud shrill, scream
Example: [They shrieked in terror]
Shrinkage: decrease, reduction, fall, decline, shrinking
Example: [Global warming may have led to the shrinkage of the polar caps]
Shrive: confess, hear confessions, forgive, absolve, free
Example: [Confess, dear sinner; I will shrive you and grant absolution for the past, whatever it may be]
Shrivel: To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
Shuffle: A mixing or changing the order of things.
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Shyster: immoral, unscrupulous person (especially a lawyer, businessman or politician)
Example: [He performs religious duties on Sunday and is a shyster on Monday]
Sibilance: hissing sound, for example ‘s’
Example: [Then the breaking of a twig and the sibilance of whispering voices]
Sibilant: Made with a hissing sound.
Sibilate: To give a hissing sound to as in pronouncing the letter s.
Sibling: brother or sister
Example: [sibling rivalry]
Sibylline: oracular prophetic
Sidelong: sideways, indirect, on the side, oblique, from one side
Example: [sidelong glances/movements/smiles]
Sidereal: pertaining to the stars
Siege: A beleaguerment.
Signatory: signer
Example: [are signatories to]
Significance: Importance.
Significant: Important especially as pointing something out.
Signification: The meaning conveyed by language actions or signs.
Silt: sediment deposited by running water
Simian: monkey like
Example: [lemurs have many simian characteristics though they are less intelligent than monkeys]
Similar: Bearing resemblance to one another or to something else.
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