🇬🇧English to English Lexicon

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Words Starting with "S"

Scrounge
C1verb
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Scrounge

To seek to obtain something, typically food or money, at the expense or through the kindness of others without paying for it.

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Scummy
C1adjective
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Scummy

Covered with or resembling scum; foul, dirty, or unpleasant.

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Sea urchin
B2noun
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Sea urchin

A small, spiny, globular sea animal that lives on the seabed.

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Seabed
B2noun
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Seabed

The ground or bottom of the sea or ocean.

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Search
A2verb
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Search

To look for someone or something carefully by inspecting a place, person, or database.

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Search-and-rescue
B2noun
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Search-and-rescue

The operations of searching for people who are lost, missing, or in imminent danger, and rescuing them from hazardous locations.

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Season ticket
B2noun
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Season ticket

A pass or ticket that allows the holder admission to a series of events or unlimited travel on a specific transport system over a specified period.

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Seatwork
B2noun
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Seatwork

Schoolwork that a student does independently while seated at a desk, typically following a lesson.

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Second-class
B2adjective
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Second-class

Inferior in rank, quality, status, or value compared to others of the same type.

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Security
B2noun
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Security

The state of being free from danger or threat.

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Sedition
C1noun
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Sedition

Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

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Seed
B1noun
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Seed

The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.

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