Small Words for Big Words

Small Words for Big Words Index


This section has been put into this site simply to provide mental recreation on Small Words and to help those who are interested in word games. It is well to emphasize, however, that it is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.


Big Words…Small Words


  1. Salacious…lustful


  2. Salutary…beneficial


  3. Sangfroid…calmness


  4. Sangfroid…coolness


  5. Sanguinary…blood-thirsty


  6. Sebaceous…fatty


  7. Secrete…hide


  8. Sedentary…sitting


  9. Sediment…dregs


  10. Sempervirent…evergreen


  11. Sempiternal…everlasting


  12. Senile…old


  13. Sepulcher…tomb


  14. Setaceous…bristly


  15. Simulacrum…image


  16. Sobriquet…nickname


  17. Somnolence…sleep


  18. Spurious…false


  19. Sterile…barren


  20. Stratagem…trick


  21. Subaltern…subordinate


  22. Subterranean…underground


  23. Succedaneum…substitute


  24. Succinct…brief


  25. Succulent…juicy


  26. Sudation…sweat


  27. Supercilious…arrogant


  28. Surmise…guesses


  29. Surreptitious…secret


  30. Surveillance…supervision


It is generally better to use the Small Words rather than the big words both in speaking and in writing.




Small Words for Big Words Index



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