SEDITION : Treason;The incitement of public disorder or rebellion.
example: Revolution usually begins when a small band of seditious individuals plot to change the established order.
SARDONIC : Mocking;SCORNFUL.
example: Robert's weak attempts at humor were met by nothing but a few scattered pockets of sardonic laughter.
SACROSANCT : adj. Sacred;Held to be inviolable.
example: A church is sacrosanct.
SANGUINE : Optimistic;Hopeful.
example: He was sanguine about his chance of winning the priza.
ROGUE : A criminally dishonest person.
RECALCITRANT : Stubborn;Fastidious.
example: A recalcitrant child.
RENOUNCE : To formally give up or resign;disown.
PHILANTHROPY : love of mankind.
Root Words: PHIL-Love ANTHROPY- Mankind.
PLACATE : To pacify;To soothe.
PERVADE : To spread throughout;PERVASIVE.
PAUCITY : Scarcity.
example: There was paucity of vegetable in the super mart.
PARADOX : Self contradictory.
example: Mr. cooper is a political paradox; he's staunch Republican who votes only for democrats.
MUNDANE : ordinary;Pretty boring.
MARSHAL : To arrange in order.
example: The statistician marshaled his facts before making his presentation.
MARTIAL : Having to do with combat;Warlike.
example: Martial Art.
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