| A | B |
| spec, spic, spect | to look |
| aspect | the way something looks from a certain point of view |
| auspicious | promising good luck, favorable |
| conspicuous | obvious |
| despicable | looked down on; deserving to be despised; contemptible |
| expect | to anticipate |
| inspect | to look into carefully |
| intospection | a looking within one's mind |
| perspection | point of view |
| persoicacious | perceptive |
| prospect | the outlook for something, as a prospect for a good crop |
| respect | to look on w/ regard or esteem |
| retrospect | a looking backward |
| specious | looking good on first sight but actually not so |
| specter | a ghost |
| spectrum | a series of colored bands seen when light passes through prisim |
| speculate | to reflect on or ponder |
| suspect | to regard w/ suspicion |
| assess | estimate the value of property |
| assessor | an official who assesses property for taxiation |
| assiduous | persistent |
| insidious | treacherous, more dangerous than it seems evident |
| obsess | to preoccupy the mind abnormally |
| obsession | a persistent idea, desire, or emotion that cannot be got rid of by reasoning |
| preside | to sit before a meeting to conduct it |
| president | one who sits before a group as its head |
| sedative | a medicine that calms nervousness or excitement |
| sedentary | requiring much sitting |
| sediment | material that sits at the bottom of a liquid, as the sediment in a stream |
| session | the sitting together in a group |
| siege | a prolonged attack, as of illness |
| subside | to settle down |
| subsidiary | subordinate |
| subsidy | government financiak support |
| superseded | to displace |
| Sed, Sid, Sess | to sit |