Difficult Words and Their Usages





This is a new section which will attempt to throw some light on the more Difficult Words in the English language. If you have a suggestion for a word we should feature in this Difficult Words section then please send it using The Contact Us form. It doesn't matter whether learners or native speakers of English might find it difficult!

List of words beginning with S.


  • Saccharine

  • Sacrilege

  • Sacrosanct

  • Sagacious

  • Salient

  • Salutary

  • Sanctimonious

  • Sanguine

  • Sardonic

  • Scintillate

  • Scrupulous

  • Scrutinize

  • Secular

  • Sedition

  • Sensory

  • Sentient

  • Sequester

  • Serendipity

  • Servile

  • Singular

  • Slander

  • Sloth

  • Sobriety

  • Solicitous

  • Solvent

  • Soporific

  • Sordid

  • Spawn

  • Specious

  • Sporadic

  • Spurious

  • Squalor

  • Squander

  • Stagnation

  • Static

  • Staunch

  • Steadfast

  • Stigmatize

  • Stipulate

  • Stoic

  • Stratum

  • Stricture

  • Strife

  • Stringent

  • Stymie

  • Subjugate

  • Sublime

  • Subordinate

  • Substantive

  • Subtle

  • Subversive

  • Succinct

  • Succumb

  • Supercilious

  • Superficial

  • Superfluous

  • Surfeit

  • Surreptitious

  • Surrogate

  • Sycophant

  • Synthesis


































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