| A | B |
| subliminal | below conscious awareness |
| suborn | persuade to act unlawfully |
| subpoena | writ summoning a witness to appear |
| subsequent | following; later |
| subservient | behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious |
| subsidiary | something secondary in importance or subordiante; auxiliary |
| subsidy | direct financial aid by government |
| subsistence | means nee3ded to support life; existence |
| substantial | ample; solid; in essentials |
| substantive | real, as opposed to imaginary; essential; solidly based; substantial |
| subterfuge | deceitful stratagem; trick; pretense |
| subtlety | perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy |
| subversive | tending to overthrow; destructive |
| succor | aid; assist; comfort |
| succulent | juicy; full of richness |
| succumb | yild; give in; die |
| suffragist | advocate of voting rights |
| sully | tarnish; soil |
| sultry | sweltering |
| summation | act of finding the toal; summary |
| summit | atmost height or pinnacle; highest point |
| sumptuous | lavish; rich |
| sunder | separate |
| supercilious | arrogant; condescending; patronizing |
| superimpose | place over something else |
| supersede | casue to be set aside; replace; make obsolete |
| supple | flexible; pliant |
| supplicate | petition humbly; pray to grant a favor |
| suppress | stifle; pverwhelm; subdue; inhibit |
| surly | rude; cross |
| surmise | suspect; guess; imagine |
| surmount | overcome |
| surrogate | substitue |
| surveillance | watching; guarding |
| sustenance | means of support, food, nourishment |
| suture | stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing |
| swagger | behave arrogantly or pompously; strut or walk proudly |
| swarm | dense moving crowd |
| swarthy | dark; dusky |
| swathe | wrap around; bandage |
| swelter | be oppressed by heat |
| swerve | deviate; turn aside sharply |
| swill | drink greedily |
| swindler | cheat |
| sybarite | lover of luxury |
| symbiosis | interdependent relationship, often mutually beneficial. |
| symmetry | arrogement of parts so that balance is obtained |
| synoptic | providing a general overview; summary |
| synthesis | combining parts into a whole |
| table | set aside a resolution or proposal for future consideration |
| tactile | pertaining to the organs or sense of touch |
| taint | contaiminate; cause to lose purity; modify with a trace of something bad |
| talisman | charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune |
| talon | claw fo bird |
| tangential | peripheral; only slightly connected digressing |
| tangible | able to touched; real; palpable |
| tanner | person who turns animal hides into leather |
| tantalize | tease;torture with disappointment |