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sensual

Short Definition : devoted to the pleasures of the sense; carnal; voluptuous; Ex. sensual woman/curves/lips

Definition
(adj) marked by the appetites and passions of the body
Synonyms : animal carnal fleshly
Example Sentence
  • animal instincts
  • carnal knowledge
  • fleshly desire
  • a sensual delight in eating
  • music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Definition
(adj) sexually exciting or gratifying
Synonyms : sultry
Example Sentence
  • sensual excesses
  • a sultry look
  • a sultry dance
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sensual

SENSUAL indulging in PHYSICAL pleasures that also excite the MENTAL status of a person.

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sensuous

Short Definition : giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin

Definition
(adj) taking delight in beauty
Example Sentence
  • the sensuous joy from all things fair
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sensuous

SENSUOUS - indulging in excessive sensual PLEASURES.

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sententious

Short Definition : pithy; terse; concise; aphoristic

Definition
(adj) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
Example Sentence
  • too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation
Definition
(adj) concise and full of meaning
Synonyms : pithy
Example Sentence
  • welcomed her pithy comments
  • the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sententious

Sentence+less - Someone who can concisely explain his views in just a few sentences (less sentences used).

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Sententious: think of it as "Sentence + Conscious". Person who is sentence conscious will be terse or brief.

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sentence+ious... full sentence in one word.

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SENTENTIOUS-> SENTENCE+TENSION. "In a TENSION filled debate, you may only get one SENTENCE in; so, be SENTENTIOUS."

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SENTENTIOUS means filled with SENTIMENT(feeling).

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sentence+ious... full sentence in one word.

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sen ten. sen is sanity/intelligence. ten = 10/10. trying to show off u r 10/10 on intelligence

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say so much in one sentence that it is better than a whole story.

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Sentencing us to tension with your excessive moralizing - at least you're pithy!

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Everyone on the beach was shocked when the local authorities SENTENced US for mixed bathing.

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The judge read the sentence with a sententious look

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sentient

Short Definition : capable of sensation and conscious; aware; sensitive; Ex. sentient creature; N. sentience

Definition
(adj) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Synonyms : animate
Example Sentence
  • the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
Definition
(adj) consciously perceiving
Example Sentence
  • sentient of the intolerable load
  • a boy so sentient of his surroundings
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sentient

Sentimental people are sentinent.

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Sentient -> SENTI + ENT(Ear Nose Throat) .. Capable of sensation, Aware, Sensitive ..

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SENTIENT - conscious, susceptible or responsive to sensation, is sensitive.

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when you are senti for someone you are aware(sentient)for her/him

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-Able to see or feel things through senses. Sentient = Sen(ses) + ENT (ear,nose,taste)

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Abhor

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sentimental

Short Definition : swayed by sentiment; appealing to the sentiments

Definition
(adj) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality Definition
(adj) effusively or insincerely emotional
Example Sentence
  • a bathetic novel
  • maudlin expressions of sympathy
  • mushy effusiveness
  • a schmaltzy song
  • sentimental soap operas
  • slushy poetry
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sentimental

SENTIMENTAL which means, going by your sentiments (emotions) is the opposite of PRAGMATICAL which refers to someone who treats things from a PRACTICAL point of view.

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sentinel

Short Definition : sentry; lookout

Definition
(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sentinel

Sentinel=see at entry.Guard or Sentry.

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senti"nel" (SA bowler) gets senti when he bowls a beamer and watches over the batsman so as to prevent a boundry on the next ball in case the batsman gets aggressive.. so he is a sentinel !!

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A SENTINEL is like a CONSTABLE - a soldier posted to keep watch and guard something.

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sena at tunnel

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sentinel: sent+in+el(elowd/allowed): we employed a watch man/gaurd at my wedding so that only people who has applied SENT will be ALLOWED (EL) IN inside.

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sentinal prime : from transformers was keeping guard on the energon

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septic

Short Definition : of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; N. sepsis: poisoning of part of the body (producing pus)

Definition
(adj) containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Synonyms : infected
Example Sentence
  • a septic sore throat
  • a septic environment
  • septic sewage
Definition
(adj) of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
Example Sentence
  • the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for septic

An Anti-septic is used to prevent a wound from getting septic.

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SEPTIC is a PROGNOSTIC (forecast of the course a disease) for the poisoning of the infected part of the body.

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sepulcher

Short Definition : tomb; V: place in a sepulcher; ADJ. sepulchral

Definition
(noun) a chamber that is used as a grave
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sepulcher

it can be broken down into see(p)+ vulture .As vulture is human flesh eating animal will b found near tombs.

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Sleep+HULCHAL- place where while sleeping u cant do any hulchul.

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a vulture flies near the sepulchre for food...

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SEPULCHER and PYRE which are more or less similar in sound, connect to the dead. While a SEPULCHER refers to a tomb (a burial), PYRE refers to the funeral pile which is lit up to cremate a dead body, a tradition prevalent in India

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: SEPULCHER = SHE(se)+PULL(pul)+CHAIR(cher). She pulls chair to attend ghost dinner party in a sepulcher.

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sequester

Short Definition : isolate; segregate; seclude; retire from public life

Definition
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
Example Sentence
  • the estate was sequestered
Definition
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
Example Sentence
  • The FBI seized the drugs
  • The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
  • The police confiscated the stolen artwork
Definition
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
Example Sentence
  • The cations were sequestered
Definition
(verb) keep away from others
Example Sentence
  • He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
Definition
(verb) set apart from others
Example Sentence
  • The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sequester

seek + quest - those who seek to find something as a part of a quest have to leave the society or seclude themselves from it.

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If I seek rest I would prefer seclusion

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Sounds like Silverter, Jab Tweaty ne Silverter ka popat kiya.. To Silverster had to retire from public life.

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sequester =see+twister==>when u see twister u "isolate" from ur dwelling place

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1st meaning: isolated:a person who quests the sea and lives ther alone<br><br> 2nd meaning : take possesions legally : suppose you lent me money for some land. with that money i buy an island. If m unable to payback u quest my sea

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SYLVESTER stallone has now 'retired from public life' he is 'isolated' from films now

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SEQUESTER ~ se (sea) + quester (questions) : He sequestered himself in his science books to find answers to questions related to sea water.

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SEclude+QUEST-He SEcluded himself/isolated from family in QUEST of money and power

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SEQUESTER or RETIRE - to exclude or ostracize from a society or group.

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The adventurous guy went on a SEA-QUEST to find the mythical sea monster .. Being a dangerous journey, he had to journey alone. He find the monster on an ISOLATED and SECLUDED region of the ocean..

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He was left SECLUDED and ISOLATED when his property was CONFISCATED

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He was set apart from others and was sent on sea quest.

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sequester: sequence + star i.e the stars r sited in sequence , isolated from each other

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the requester was sequestered and beaten up to death

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sere

Short Definition : sear; parched; dry

Definition
(adj) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
Example Sentence
  • dried-up grass
  • the desert was edged with sere vegetation
  • shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
  • withered vines
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sere

like the Sierra Desert, dry and arid

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SERE - sear

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The SEARing (make very hot) sun makes plants SERE.

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sere---> seer(head) se panv(legs) tak sukh gaya hai....

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Its so sere outside get me some chilled beer !

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SERE or even more DRIER - something arid or completely dehydrated, parched dry.

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Sea-er? No sea,no water, therefore arid!

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