Putnam's Word Book Part 219

staff, n. rod, stick, cane; truncheon; mace; crozier; support; bourdon.

stag, n. hart.

stage, n. platform, rostrum; scaffold, staging; theater, playhouse, arena, boards; degree, step, point; drama. a.s.sociated Words: histrionic, histrionism, histrionicism, proscenium, postscenium, parascenium, coulisse, wing.

stagecoach, n. stage, omnibus, diligence (France).

stagger, v. reel, totter, sway; shock, astound, dumfound.

stagnant, a. motionless, standing, quiet; inactive, dull, sluggish.

stagy, a. theatrical, a.s.sumed, bombastic.

staid, a. sedate, demure, serious, settled.

stain, v. soil, sully, defile, taint.

stain, n. blot, taint, discoloration, tarnish.

stainless, a. immaculate, spotless.

stairway, n. stairs, staircase, flight of stairs; escalator (moving stairway); caracole (spiral staircase). a.s.sociated Words: bal.u.s.ter, bal.u.s.trade, newel, landing, riser, tread, banister, nosing, dog-legged.

stake, n. picket, pale, post; pledge, wager, bet; venture, risk, hazard.

stake, v. venture, risk, hazard, wager, bet, pledge.

stale, a. vapid, musty, fusty, flat, insipid, mawkish; trite, common, ba.n.a.l, hackneyed, commonplace.

staleness, n. vapidity, mustiness, insipidity; triteness, ba.n.a.lity.

stalk, n. stem, axis, petiole, pedicel, peduncle, spire, stipe, culm, kecksy.

stall, n. stable; booth, stand; seat. a.s.sociated Words: manger, stanchion.

stalwart, a. strapping, brawny, muscular, redoubted, athletic, strong.

stamina, n. vigor, strength, st.u.r.diness, backbone.

stamp, v. impress, imprint; stomp (Colloq.).

stamp, n. impression, imprint, die; hallmark; pestle.

stamp out. extinguish, crush, quell.

stamps, n. pl. a.s.sociated Words: philately, philatelist, philatelic, timbrology, frank, grill, surcharge.

stanch, a. loyal, steadfast, constant, true, unwavering; sound.

stand, v. endure, bear, weather, brook, suffer, tolerate, yield to, abide, submit; agree, accord, be consistent; stagnate.

stand, n. halt, stop, pause, stay; tripod, trivet; situation, location, position, post; stall, booth; quandary, perplexity; resistance, opposition, withstanding; stillion.

standard, n. criterion, model, type, pattern, norm; gauge, measure; flag, colors; labarum, vexillum.

standard-bearer, n. color-bearer, color-sergeant, ensign, vexillary; leader.

stand by. befriend, vindicate, advocate, defend, maintain.

standing, a. erect; stagnant; lasting, permanent, persistent.

standing, n. status.

standing out. prominent, projecting, protuberant, jutting out; conspicuous, salient.

standing out. prominence, projection, protuberance, bulge, protrusion; conspicuousness, salience; persistence, incompliance, obduracy.

standing up for. defense, justification, support, advocacy.

stand in hand. behoove, be advantageous, conduce to one's interest.

stand it. endure, tolerate, bear, brook.

stand off. keep aloof, refrain; refuse, resist, withstand.

stand out. project, overhang, jut out, beetle; resist, withstand.

standpoint, n. point of view, viewpoint.

stand up for. defend, support, espouse, champion, advocate, justify, vindicate.

star, n. luminary, planet; asterisk, asterism; pentalpha; pentacle; meteor. a.s.sociated Words: astronomy, astronomer, astronomical, astrolatry, astrolater, astrogeny, astrology, astrologer, astrological, astrometry, astromancy, sidereal, astral, horoscope, constellation, zodiac, observatory, galaxy, acronycal, cosmical, astrophotography, astrophysics, periastral, stellar, interstellar, intersidereal, orbit.

star, v. bespangle.

starched, a. stiff, ceremonious, prim, formal, punctilious, precise.

starchy, a. amylaceous, amyloid, starched.

starry, a. bespangled; astral, stellar, stellary, radiated, stelliform.

start, v. set out, go, initiate, launch, inst.i.tute, embark.

startle, v. scare, surprise, affright.

starvation, n. famishment.

starve, v. famish.