1. Sacrilegious - grossly irreverent toward what is considered holy
2. Sacrosanct - treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism
3. Sagacious - acutely insightful and wise
4. Salubrious - promoting health
5. Sardonic - disdainfully or ironically humorous
6. Satiate - fill to satisfaction
7. Satirical - exposing human folly to ridicule
8. Saturate - infuse or fill completely
9. Scarce - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
10. Scathing - marked by harshly abusive criticism
11. Schism - division of a group into opposing factions
12. Scionb- a descendent or heir
13. Scornful - expressing extreme contempt
14. Scrupulous - characterized by extreme care and great effort
15. Scrutinize - examine carefully for accuracy
16. Seamless - perfectly consistent and coherent
17. Secede - withdraw from an organization or polity
18. Secession - formal separation from an alliance or federation
19. Sedentary - requiring sitting or little activity
20. Seditious
in opposition to a civil authority or government
21. Sedulous - marked by care and persistent effort
22. Segregation - the act of keeping apart
23. Semantics - the study of language meaning
24. Seminal - influential and providing a basis for later development
25. Sentient - endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
26. Sentiment - a personal belief or judgment
27. Sequential - in regular succession without gaps
28. Sequester - set apart from others
29. Serendipity - good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
30. Serenity - the absence of mental stress or anxiety
31. Sibylline - resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
32. Simian - relating to or resembling an ape
33. Simile - a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
34. Simultaneous - occurring or operating at the same time
35. Slack - not tense or taut
36. Sobriety - the state of being unaffected or not intoxicated by alcohol
37. Solace - comfort offered to one who is disappointed or miserable
38. Solitude - a state of social isolation
39. Solvent - a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
40. Somatic - characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
41. Sophist - someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
42. Specious -plausible but false
43. Spectator - a close observer; someone who looks at something
44. Spectrum - a broad range of related objects, values, or qualities
45. Speculation - a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
46. Spontaneous - said or done without having been planned in advance
47. Sporadic - recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances
48. Spurious - plausible but false
49. Spurn - reject with contempt
50. Squabble - a quarrel about petty points
51. Squalid - foul and run-down and repulsive
52. Squander - spend extravagantly
53. Stagnant - not growing or changing; without force or vitality
54. Stagnate
55. Stalemate - a situation in which no progress can be made
56. Stamina - enduring strength and energy
57. Statutory - prescribed or authorized by or punishable under law
58. Steadfast - marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
59. Stoic - seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
60. Stratification - the act of arranging persons into classes or levels
