language, talk, conversation,
parlance, words; tongue, dialect; patois; discourse, oration, address,
plea, declamation, dissertation, epilogue, allocution, exhortation,
disquisition, effusion, descant; harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed,
rhapsody, philippic, invective, rant; soliloquy, monologue; dialogue;
colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation,
prevarication, quibbling; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly,
dilogy. Associated Words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize,
extemporization, impromptu, improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia,
amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric, oratorical, rhetorical,
rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration, voluble, volubility, fluent,
fluency.

speechless, a. dumb, mute, aphasic, inarticulate.

speechlessness, n. dumbness, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity,
aphasia.

speed, n. velocity, swiftness, rapidity, celerity, haste, expedition,
dispatch, posthaste; impetuosity. Associated Words: tachymeter,
tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph, momentum, impetus.

speed, v. hurry, hasten; accelerate, expedite, quicken, dispatch,
facilitate; prosper, favor.

speedy, a. swift, quick, fast, rapid, fleet, hasty, hurried,
expeditious.

spell, n. charm, incantation, exorcism; period, season, interval.

spell, v. orthographize; decipher, read, unravel, unfold; charm,
bewitch.

spellbound, a. fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.

speller, n. orthographist, orthographer.

spelling, n. orthography. Associated Words: orthographic, phonetic,
glossic, nomic, homographic, homography, homograph, heterographic,
heterography, cacographic, cacography.

spend, v. expend, disburse.

spender, n. prodigal, spendthrift.

spending, n. expenditure, disbursement.

spendthrift, n. waster, spender, prodigal, squanderer

spent, a. exhausted, tired, consumed, worn out.

sperm-whale, n. cachelot, spermaceti whale.

sphere, n. globe, orb, ball; province, circuit, beat, purview,
compass, circle; station, position, rank; region, domain, realm; orbit.

spice, n. condiment; piquancy, pungency.

spicy, a. aromatic, fragrant; piquant, pungent, sharp.

spider, n. araneidan; scorpion, tarantula; pl. Araneina,
Arachnida. Associated Words: arachnology, arachnologist, araneidan,
araneiform, web, arachnoid, arachnophagous, spinneret, arachnean, falcer,
cobweb, cocoon, retiary, arachnidium.

spigot, n. stopper, plug, stopple.

spin, v. whirl, twirl, revolve, g