, poor, gaunt, meager, lank; superfluous.

sparing, a. economical, frugal, saving, parsimonious, chary; scanty,
scarce, meager; compassionate, indulgent, forbearing, merciful, lenient.

spark, v. court, woo, philander.

sparkle, v. glitter, coruscate, glisten, scintillate, twinkle, gleam.

sparkle, n. scintillation, glitter, gleaming, brilliancy.

sparkling, a. glittering, flashing, brilliant, twinkling, coruscant,
glistening, lambent, scintillant, glistering; spirited, vigorous,
impassioned, bright; mantling, gleaming, bubbling.

sparse, a. scattered, thin, innumerous, meager.

Spartan, a. hardy, undaunted, courageous, doughty.

spasm, n. convulsion, paroxysm, fit, throe.

spasmodic, a. intermittent, fitful, convulsive.

spat, n. tiff, quarrel, dispute, dissension.

spats, n. pl. gaiters, spatterdashes.

spawn, n. roe, ova, eggs (of fishes_, _frogs, etc.); mycelium.

speak, v. utter, pronounce, say, articulate, enunciate, express,
talk; discourse, address, declaim, harangue, preach, lecture, rant,
descant, expatiate; accost, address; declare, publish, proclaim, announce,
bruit. Antonyms: repress, suppress, refrain.

speaker, n. orator, discourser, spokesman, prolocutor, mouthpiece,
interlocutor, chairman.

speaking alone. monologue, soliloquy.

speaking together. conference, collocution.

spear, n. lance, javelin, harpoon, assagai, trident, jireed; shoot,
spire, blade.

special, a. particular, especial, specific, exceptional.

specialty, n. particularity; speciality.

specie, n. coin, cash, metallic money.

species, n. group, class, kind, brood, sort, variety.

specific, a. definite, precise, specified; characteristic,
particular, special.

specify, v. designate, particularize, individualize, name.

specimen, n. example, sample, model, copy, pattern.

specious, a. plausible; obvious, manifest.

speck, n. spot, stain; atom, mite, particle, bit.

speckle, v. speck, spot, dot.

speckled, a. spotted, mottled.

spectacle, n. scene, sight, show, exhibition, pageant.

spectator, n. beholder, witness, bystander, onlooker, observer.

specter, n. phantom, apparition, shade, ghost, manes, spirit, wraith,
spook.

spectral, a. phantomlike, ghostly.

speculate, v. theorize, meditate, conjecture, guess, think.

speculation, n. theory, supposition, conjecture; contemplation,
thought.

speculative, a. contemplative, meditative; theoretical,
supposititious.

speech, a. utterance, speaking;