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Guide to Obscure English Words 541

Scapegrace—an incurable rascal
Scintillating—sparkling
Scurrility—a grossly abusive verbal attack
Scuttle—destroy
Sedentary—by nature inactive

Sempiternal—eternal
Sequestered—secluded
Serendipity—finding good things without looking for them
Seriate—coming in a series
Sexagenarian—(adj.) being between sixty and seventy years old
Sham—a fraudulent show

Sheen—luster
Simian—of or relating to monkeys
Sinecurist—one with a secure position and who does little work
Sloth—laziness
Sluggish—tending to be lazy and slow
Slushy—sentimental

Sojourn—(noun) a temporary stay in a place; (verb) to stay temporarily in a
place
Solicit—to earnestly or repeatedly request

Solitudinarian—one who prefers to live alone
Sortie—a sudden attack
Spawn—to come (or bring) into being; to develop
Spurious—false, bogus, counterfeit
Stymie—to block or frustrate
Subsume—to include within something larger

Sycophant—one who gives praise to gain personal advantage
Taciturnity—tendency to speak only when necessary
Tack—a new course of action based on changed circumstances
Tendentiousness—an intentional controversial bias
Therianthropism—worship of deities who are partly animal and partly human