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suffering, n. distress, agony, misery, pain, discomfort, torture, sufferance.
sufficiency, n. enough, adequacy, competence. Antonyms: insufficiency, inadequacy.
sufficient, a. adequate. Antonyms: insufficient, inadequate.
suffocate, v. choke, stifle, smother, asphyxiate, burke.
suffocation, n. smothering, asphyxiation.
suffrage, n. vote, a.s.sent, ballot; testimony, attestation; prayer, pet.i.tion.
sugar, n. sucrose, saccharose (cane sugar); levulose (fruit sugar); dextrose, glucose (grape sugar); muscovado (unrefined sugar); maltose (malt sugar); lactose (milksugar); inosite (muscle sugar); invert sugar; ca.s.sonade (raw sugar); caramel (burnt sugar). a.s.sociated words: sacchariferous, dextrine, sorghum, saccharify, saccharimeter, saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharoid, saccharize.
suggest, v. allude to, hint, intimate, insinuate, propose, recommend.
suggestion, n. intimation, hint, allusion, proposal, instance, insinuation.
suicide, n. self-murder, self-destruction; self-murderer, _felo-de-se_.
suit, n. wooing, courts.h.i.+p, addresses; prosecution, action, lawsuit; retinue, suite; pet.i.tion, solicitation, entreaty, request. a.s.sociated words: champerty, maintenance. See lawsuit.
suit, v. fit, adapt, adjust; please, gratify, satisfy; accord, comport, agree.
suitable, a. fitting, accordant, proper, becoming, congruous, consistent, congruent.
suite, n. retinue, staff, train of attendants.
sulky, a. sullen, morose, surly, moody.
sullen, a. morose, unamiable, sulky, intractable.
sulphur, n. brimstone.
sulphuric acid. oil of vitriol.
sum, n. amount, total, aggregate, sum total; problem, example.
sum, v. cast up, add, compute; summarize.
summary, n. recapitulation, epitome, resume, synopsis.
summer, n. a.s.sociated Words: aestival, aestivate, aestivation.
summing up. resume, recapitulation, peroration.
summit, n. top, pinnacle, zenith, apex, vertex, culmination.
summoner, n. apparitor.
sum up. summarize, recapitulate.
sun, n. Sol. a.s.sociated Words:: heliography, heliometry, solar, solstice, solarize, anthelion, parhelion, halo, heliocentric, actinometer, actinometry, heliacal, heliograph, equinox, astronomy, astronomer, photosphere, helioscope, heliostat, paranthelion, maculae, Hyperion.
sun bath. insolation.
sunburnt, a. tanned, blowzy, bronzed.
Sunday, n. the Lord's day. a.s.sociated Word: dominical.
sundial, n. a.s.sociated Words: sciotheric, gnomon, gnomonics, gnomonolcgy, style, gnomonist, dialing.
sundog, n. parhelion.
sundry, a. several, divers, various.
sunny, a. genial, pleasant, cloudless, radiant.
sunrise, n. daybreak, dawn, aurora.
sun room. solarium.
sunshade, n. parasol; awning, shade.
sun's path. ecliptic.
sun spots. faculae.
sunstroke, n. insolation, siriasis, _coup de soleil_.
sun-wors.h.i.+p, n. heliolatry, Sabianism.
sun-wors.h.i.+per, n. heliolater.
super, n. supernumerary.
superabundance, n. redundancy, excess, surfeit, superfluity, exuberance, plethora.
superabundant, a. superfluous, redundant, excessive, plethoric.
superb, n. magnificent, grand, august, elegant.
superfluity, n. superabundance, surplusage. See superabundance.
superfluous, a. superabundant, redundant, excessive, supernumerary.
superintendent, n. overseer, guardian, supervisor, custodian, intendant, manager, controller, princ.i.p.al, curator, warden.
superior, a. more excellent, surpa.s.sing, paramount, predominant.
