smear, smudge, smutch, daub, spot, stain.

spoil, v. plunder, rob, pillage, ravage, depredate, despoil
devastate, sack; corrupt, vitiate, debase, mar, demoralize, deprave,
sophisticate, infect, defile, contaminate; disfigure, deface, damage;
decay, addle, putrefy, rot.

spoil, n. plunder, pillage, booty, prize, gain, loot; waste, robbery,
devastation, sacking, rapine, spoliation; corruption, decay, vitiation.

spoke, n. radius, ray; rung, round.

spoken, a. oral, nuncupative, parole.

spokesman, n. speaker, mouthpiece, prolocutor.

sponge, v. imbibe, absorb; expunge, efface, erase, obliterate.

sponger, n. parasite, hanger-on, trencher friend.

spongy, a. porous, spongoid, spongiform, incompact; absorbent,
bibulous.

sponsor, n. godparent; surety. Associated Words: sponsorial,
sponsorship, sponsion, ward, protege.

spontaneous, a. instinctive, voluntary, impulsive, unforced

spontaneous generation. abiogenesis.

spook, n. ghost, spirit, specter, apparition, phantom, hobgoblin.

spooney, a. (Colloq.) silly, sentimental, foolishly fond.

spoor, n. track, trail (of a wild animal).

sporadic, a. separate, single, isolated.

sport, n. amusement, game, recreation, fun, play, diversion, pastime,
jollity, pleasantry, hilarity, gayety, merriment; derision, mockery,
ridicule, jeer; plaything, toy; monstrosity; (Slang) sportsman.

sport, v. frolic, play, caper, disport; (Colloq.) exhibit wear,
display.

sportive, a. frolicsome, merry, boon, frisky, sprightly, prankish,
gamesome.

spot, n. speck, speckle, mark, blot, discoloration, fleck, dapple,
blotch, smutch; stain, reproach, blemish, flaw; place, locality; areola,
areolet, areolation, ocellus.

spot, v. dapple, variegate, mottle, speckle, blot, sully, stain,
maculate.

spotless, a. immaculate, unspotted, stainless, unsullied,
irreproachable, blameless.

spotted, a. speckled, dappled, dotted, discolored, variegated,
bespeckled, flecked, freckled, spotty, soiled, piebald, mottled, blotched,
pinto, pied, pintado, party-colored, specked, plashy, finchbacked,
rubican, ocellated.

spotted fever. cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhus fever.

spotted sickness. pint.

spout, v. spurt, squirt, gush; rant, harangue; (Cant) pawn.

spout, h. nozzle; conduit, trough, adjutage; waterspout; gargoyle;
dale.

spouter, n. declaimer, ranter, haranguer.

spout hole. blowhole, spiracle.

spouting, n. harangue, declamation, magniloquence, ranting.

spray, n. twig