lial, filiation, unfilial, filicide,
mulier, mulierty.
song, n. hymn, chant, lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric,
lilt, lied, paean, cantata, aria, sonnet, strain, round, rhapsody, dirge,
chanson.
songcraft, n. versification, poesy, poetry.
song of Solomon. canticle.
song of triumph. paean.
sonorous, a. resonant, resounding; high-sounding, stentorian,
vibrant.
sonship, n. filiation.
soot, n. crock, smut.
soothe, v. compose, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, mollify, calm.
soothing, a. bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting,
sedative.
soothsayer, n. seer, prophet, diviner, haruspice, foreteller.
soothsaying, n. prophecy, augury, divination, prediction,
prognostication.
sooty, a. fuliginous, soot-covered.
sophism, n. fallacy, paralogy, fallacious reasoning.
sophistical, a. fallacious, unsound.
sophistry, n. fallacy, paralogy, paralogism.
sophomoric, a. inflated, bombastic, pretentious.
soprano, n. descant, treble.
sorcerer, n. conjurer, necromancer, magician, enchanter, juggler,
wizard.
sorcery, n. necromancy, magic, enchantment, witchcraft, black art.
sordid, a. low, degraded, abject, base.
sore, a. ulcerated, cankered, ulcerous, raw, inflamed, irritated;
distressing, grievous, severe; grieved, pained, hurt, sensitive.
sore, n. ulcer, ulceration, imposthume, pustule, boil, abscess,
canker, fester, blain, gathering; (venereal sore) chancre, chancroid.
Associated Words: antiseptic, slough, proud flesh, poultice, salve,
ointment, pledget, spleget.
sore, adv. grievously, sorely, severely, greatly.
sorrow, n. grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue,
unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavement.
sorrow, v. grieve, mourn, regret, deplore, bewail, lament.
sorrowful, a. See sad.
sorry, a. melancholy, mournful, dismal, depressing, sad; abject,
despicable, miserable, mean, paltry, contemptible, pitiful; contrite,
penitent, chagrined, pained.
sort, n. kind, species, character, description, strain, class.
sort, v. assort, classify; conjoin; choose, select, cull; consort,
associate, fraternize; harmonize, agree, accord, conform.
so-so, a. middling, passable, tolerable, mediocre, ordinary, average.
sot, n. toper, drunkard, bibber.
soul, n. spirit, Psyche. Associated Words: psychology, psychic,
psychological, psychomachy, transmigration, metempsychosis, psychogenesis,
psychopannychism, theodicy, monopsychism.
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