Squabble: quarrel, argue, disagreement, disagree, quarrel, dispute
Example: [With her I used to squabble, and sometimes sent her crying to her mother. There was a squabble over the Chairmanship]
Squalid: filthy
Example: [Many prisons, even today, are overcrowded and squalid places]
Squander: waste
Example: [They’ll quite happily squander a whole year’s savings on two-week vacation]
Squatter: One who settles on land without permission or right.
Squelch: crush completely, suppress, make wet sucking sounds (as when walking on wet ground), overpower
Example: [His feet squelched in the squashy grass]
Staccato: clear-cut sounds marked by abrupt
Example: [The music suddenly changed from a smooth melody to a staccato rhythm]
Stagnant: motionless stale
Example: [stagnant sales]
Stagnate: cease progress, become inactive, stop moving or flowing
Example: [Streams had overflown their banks, the water had stagnated, rank foliage had arisen, and giant trees rotted in swamp and slime]
Stagnation: The condition of not flowing or not changing.
Stagy: artificial, theatrical, insincere, exaggerated, not natural
Example: [He seized Bella and hugged her to his bosom in a most stagy manner]
Staid: sedate, demure, boring
Example: [In an attempt to change its staid image, the newspaper has created a new section aimed at younger readers]
Stalemate: deadlock
Example: [the stalemate was finally broken]
Stallion: An uncastrated male horse commonly one kept for breeding.
Stalwart: strong pillar
Example: [a stalwart supporter]
Stamina: endurance vigor
Example: [a great test of stamina]
Stance: position, opinion, stand
Example: [a positive/oppositional stance]
Stanch: check flow of blood
Example: [stanch the gushing wound]
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Stanchion: post, vertical supporting pole, barrier, bar, support
Example: [He clung to the rail there and braced one naked foot against a stanchion]
Stanza: division of a poem
Stark: empty desolate
Example: [a stark room]
Stasis: equilibrium, period of inactivity, stability
Example: [He’s just in stasis]
Statecraft: government, management, statesmanship, administration, skill in managing public affairs
Example: [The instinct of the nation was wiser than the statecraft of the king]
Stately: noble impressive
Example: [The procession moved through the village at a stately pace]
Static: Pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
Statics: branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that produce balance in bodies that are not moving
Example: [statics of constructions]
Stationary: Not moving.
Statistician: One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
Statuesque: Having the grace pose or quietude of a statue.
Statuette: very small statue
Example: [It was not more than six feet high, and the top was adorned with statuettes in marble, ranged at regular distances one from the other]
Stature: esteem, height, reputation, status, importance
Example: [His stature was lofty,]
Statute: regulation
Example: [a new statute on taxes]
Statutory: created by statue or legislative action
Example: [the judicial courts review and try statutory crimes]
Staunch: loyal
Example: [staunch supporter]
Steadfast: immovable loyal
Example: [steadfast loyalty]
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Stealth: covertness secrecy
Example: [These thieves operate with stealth]
Stein: beer mug
Example: [drank beer from steins and sang songs]
Stellar: related to the stars
Example: [a stellar explosion]
Stem: curtail, stop, come from, halt, originate
Example: [Such problems stem from biological factors]
Stenography: shorthand
Stentorian: extremely loud
Example: [a stentorian preacher]
Steppe: huge grass-covered plain, especially in Europe and Asia, savanna
Example: [Mentally, the man of the steppe and the desert is today little advanced beyond his predecessors of thousands of years ago]
Stereotyped: lacking individually, over simplified, seen as a type
Sterling: Genuine.
Stertorous: having a snoring sound
Example: [stertorous breathing]
Stickler: perfectionist, persistent or stubborn person, difficult problem, strict disciplinarian
Example: [a stickler for grammar rules]
Stifle: To smother.
Stigma: mark of disgrace
Example: [There is no longer any stigma to being divorced]
Stigmata: bodily marks resembling the wounds on Jesus Christ’s body when he was crucified
Example: [The old effect of asceticism, bred of terrific hardships and toil, had vanished; the features had become broader and heavier, betraying all the stigmata of the life he lived, advertising the man’s self-indulgence, harshness, and brutality]
Stigmatize: condemn, accuse, regard something as disgraceful, denounce, brand as undesirable
Example: [If I were to stigmatize such behavior, I should call it disgraceful]
Stiletto: short knife or dagger
Example: [He detected a look in his friend’s face which excited his suspicion, and was about to slip a stiletto into him when Crioni saved himself by explaining that that look was only an expression of supreme and happy astonishment]
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