(LETTERS STARTING WITH 'R')
savour - taste flavour something
sawdust - tiny bits of wood
scabbard - sheath for the blade
scent - smell (esp. pleasant)
scorch - become discoloured/dry up/go at high speed
scribble - write hastily
scurvy - mean contemptible
sedulous - persevering
seminal - like a seed constituting a source originative
sententious - short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
sequence - succession connected line of
sere - make hard and without feeling
sermon - reproving a person for his faults
serrated - having a toothed edge
serration - having a toothed edge
servile - like a slave lacking independence
sever - break off
severance - severing
shallow - little depth not earnest
shard - piece of broken earthenware
sheath - cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
shrewd - astute showing sound judgement
shrill - sharp piercing
shun - keep away from avoid
sidestep - step to one side
simper - (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
sinuous - winding undulating serpentine
skiff - small boat
skit - short piece of humorous writing
slack - sluggish dull not tight
slake - to assuage to satisfy allay
slate - king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
sluggard - lazy slow-moving person
slur - join sounds/words (indistinct)
smoulder - burn slowly without flame
snare - trap
snub - treat with contempt
soar - rise fly high
sober - self-controlled
sobriety - quality or condition of being sober
sodden - soaked saturated
soggy - heavy with water
solvent - of the power of forming a solution
somatic - of the body
soot - black powder in smoke
sophisticated - complex subtle refined
sophistry - fallacious reasoning faulty logic
sophomoric
soporific - producing sleep
sordid - wretched comfortless contemptible
spear - weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
specious - illogical of questionable truth or merit
splenetic - bad-tempered irritable
splice - join (two ends)
sponge - porous rubber for washing live at once expense
spurious - FALSE counterfeit
spurn - have nothing to do reject or refuse
squalid - foul filthy
squander - spend wastefully
squat - crouch/settle without permission
stanch - to stop the flow of a fluid
steeply - rising or falling sharply
stentorian - extremely loud and powerful
stickler - person who insists on importance of something
stigma - mark of shame or disgrace
stigmatize - describe somebody scornfully
sting - something sharp
stingy - spending using unwillingly
stint - to be thrifty to set limits
stipple - paint with dots
stipulate - state or put forward as a necessary condition
stolid - showing no emotion impassive
stray - wander lose one’s way
streak - long thin move very fast
striated - striped grooved or banded
stride - walk with long steps
strut - a supporting bar
stygian - hence dark gloomy
stymie - to hinder obstruct or block
subdue - overcome bring under control
sublime - extreme astounding
submerge - put under water liquid sink out of sight
suborn - induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
subpoena
substantiation - giving facts to support (statement)
subsume - include under a rule
succor - assistance relief in time of distress
suffice - be enough
suffocate - cause or have difficulty in breathing
sullied - to be stained or discredited
summarily - briefly without delay
sumptuous - magnificent
sundry - various miscellaneous separate
supercilious - disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
superfluous - more then is needed or wanted
superimpose - put something on the top
supersede - take the place of
supine - lying on the back slow to act passive
suppliant - asking humbly beseeching
supplicate - make a humble petition to
suppress - prevent from being known put an end to
surcharge - additional load/charge
surfeit - satiate feed to fullness or to excess
susceptibility - sensitiveness
swerve - change direction suddenly
sycophant - person who flatter to the rich and powerful
synopsis - summary or outline