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Various

"The Illustrated London Reading Book"

_ artful trick; dexterous practice
SLU'GGISH, _a._ slow; slothful; lazy, inactive
SOBRI'ETY, _s._ soberness; calmness; gravity
SOCI'ETY, _s._ company; community
SO'CKET, _s._ a hollow pipe; the receptacle of the eye
SO'LDIER, _s._ a fighting man; a warrior
SO'LEMN, _a._ religiously grave; awful; grave
SOLE'MNITY, _s._ gravity; religious ceremony
SOLI'CITOUS, _a._ anxious; careful; concerned
SOLI'CITUDE, _s._ anxiety; carefulness
SO'LID, _a._ not liquid; not fluid; not hollow; compact; strong; firm;
sound; true; profound; grave
SOLI'LOQUY, _s._ a discourse made by one in solitude to himself
SO'LITARY, _a._ living alone; not having company
SO'LITUDE, _s._ loneliness; a lonely place
SO'RROW, _s._ grief; pain for something past; sadness
SOU'THERN, _a._ belonging to the south
SO'VEREIGN, _s._ supreme lord.
SPA'NGLE, _s._ any little thing sparkling and shining
SPA'NIEL, _s._ a dog used for sport in the field, remarkable for
tenacity and obedience
SPEA'KER, _s._ one that speaks; the prolocutor of the Commons
SPE'CIES, _s._ a sort; class of nature; show
SPECIMEN, _s._ sample; a part of any thing exhibited, that the rest may
be known
SPE'CTACLE, _s.


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