Putnam's Word Book eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 372 pages of information about Putnam's Word Book.

Putnam's Word Book eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 372 pages of information about Putnam's Word Book.

successful, a. prosperous, victorious, triumphant, fortunate.

succession, n. sequence, consecution; chain, line, series.

successive, a. consecutive.

successor, n.  Antonym:  predecessor.

succor, n. assistance, help, relief.

suck, v. imbibe, absorb; engulf.

sucker, n. shoot, tiller, scion, sprout; embolus, piston, valve.

sucker, n. (Slang) dupe, gull, cully, greenhorn; parasite, sponger, toady.

suckling, n. lactation.—­a. unweaned.

sudden, a. unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for.

sue, v. prosecute.

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, assent, ballot; testimony, attestation; prayer, petition.

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; cassonade (raw sugar); caramel (burnt sugar).  Associated 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, courtship, addresses; prosecution, action, lawsuit; retinue, suite; petition, solicitation, entreaty, request.  Associated 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.  Associated 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.  Associated Words::  heliography, heliometry, solar, solstice, solarize, anthelion, parhelion, halo, heliocentric, actinometer, actinometry, heliacal, heliograph, equinox, astronomy, astronomer, photosphere, helioscope, heliostat, paranthelion, maculae, Hyperion.

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