soft, a. mellow; yielding, impressible, impressionable, malleable,
fictile, plastic, pliable; bland, emollient, grateful, delicate, subdued;
flexible, flaccid, facile, compliant, irresolute; conciliatory, mild;
effeminate, unmanly silly, foolish; queachy.

soft coal. bituminous coal.

soften, v. intenerate, mollify; palliate, extenuate, qualify,
modify, relax, mitigate, emolliate, appease, temper, abate; subdue, tone
down.

softening, a. demulcent, lenient, assuasive, emollient, relaxing,
mollient, mollifying.

softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity,
fictility, emollescence.

soft parts of the body. Associated Word: sarcology.

soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe,
wheedling, cajolery, flattery.

soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt,
pollution, defilement; manure, dung, faeces, excrement.

soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint,
besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.

soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry;
infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon;
cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.

soldierly, a. martial, military.

soldier's dress. uniform, regimentals.

solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.

solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august,
majestic.

solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.

solicit, v. ask, seek, request.

solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.

solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding,
imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided. Antonyms:
porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.

solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity;
validity.

soliloquy, n. monologue.

solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual;
eremetic, hermitical.

solitary, n. recluse, anchoret, hermit, eremite.

solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement;
wilderness. Associated Words: apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.

solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution,
disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.

solvent, n. menstruum, dissolvent, resolvent.

somersault, n. somerset.

sometimes, adv. at intervals, now and then, occasionally.

son, n. Associated Words: fi