S Vocabulary Words Quiz #2

Guess these vocabulary words that start with the letter S.
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First submittedDecember 21, 2012
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Definition
Word
Faster than the speed of sound
Supersonic
Tropical grassland
Savanna
Cylindrical grain-storage building
Silo
Longest or shortest day of the year
Solstice
It's like a metaphor
Simile
Physical comedy
Slapstick
Detective
Sleuth
Old West tavern
Saloon
Heir; descendent
Scion
Breastbone
Sternum
Sleepwalking
Somnambulism
Military blockade of a city
Siege
Stage monologue
Soliloquy
Extended leave taken by college professors
Sabbatical
Ruler of the Ottoman Empire
Sultan
Crucifixion wounds like those of Jesus
Stigmata
Having a dark or weathered complexion
Swarthy
Fourteen line poem with iambic pentameter
Sonnet
Sharp knife or high-heeled shoe
Stiletto
Slang for cigar
Stogie
Place where lumber is cut into boards
Sawmill
Pertaining to apes
Simian
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Level 82
Mar 10, 2013
yay. 100%
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Level 62
Mar 10, 2013
I really need my coffee before I jetpunk. Sauron is NOT the leader of the Ottoman Empire
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Level 50
Mar 12, 2013
I like how you used jetpunk as a verb. I'm going to try to work that into my daily vernacular.
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Level 58
Dec 21, 2016
Yet.
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Level 86
Jun 2, 2018
Sauron comes to Earth and revives the Ottoman Empire for some reason. This has "really bad fan fiction" written all over it.
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Level 29
Mar 10, 2013
I've heard people say "Swisher" so often, I forgot it's actually a brand and not a slang term.
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Level 73
Mar 10, 2013
"Shamus" is another S word for a detective.
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Level 78
Mar 10, 2013
"seamus" or "shamus" for detective please - its used in New York all the time, and "sleuth" kind of refers to a NON-professional, neither cop nor private investigator
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Level ∞
Mar 10, 2013
Agreed, those will work now.
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Level 61
Oct 22, 2015
detective = spy
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Level 66
Mar 24, 2020
Searcher ;) but yea I tried snoop and spy, couldnt think of sleuth. (But all other s things keep coming, sneaker, superagent, sniffer, etc)
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Level 67
Aug 13, 2019
"Spy" or "snoop"?
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Level 67
Mar 10, 2013
It would be a neat little in-joke if you worded the clue for simile as "it's like a metaphor."

Also, a soliloquy and a monologue are different: a character speaks to himself in a soliloquy; he addresses other characters in a monologue. The answer is obvious either way, but that distinction is something drama teachers get all huffy over.

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Level 77
Mar 11, 2013
I put speech for monologue, which is technically a correct answer i would think. I had the same mindset. I was thinking a Johnny Carsonesque monologue where he speaks to the audience. Soliloquy's are speaking to oneself. I got it in the end, but i would agree with jmellor
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Level 56
Oct 22, 2015
I know it doesn't sound as fancy but, in my opinion, you should accept "speech".
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Level ∞
Dec 23, 2014
Suggested accepted @jmellor. Also added "stage" to the clue for monologue.
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Level 67
Aug 11, 2019
Hooray! Not to push my luck, but could you also accept "somnambulant" for "sleepwalking," which can be an adjective in its participle form? E.g., "The sleepwalking boy bumped into the fridge" and "the somnambulant boy bumped into the fridge" have the same meaning. I tried that like five times before it occurred to me to try it as a noun.
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Level 78
Feb 11, 2021
I agree. It's a gerund used adjectivally.
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Level 75
Mar 5, 2015
Correct spelling for this usage is descendant, not descendent.
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Level 56
Oct 22, 2015
"The adjective may be spelled either with ant or ent as the final syllable (see descendent). The noun may be spelled only with ant." - Wiktionary. I have to agree with ander217 and Wiktionary on this one. Honestly, I've never used the spelling "descendent", even for the adjective.
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Level 69
Apr 19, 2015
Successor for heir, descendant?
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Level 57
Apr 22, 2015
I tried successor as well.
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Level 60
Oct 25, 2015
I also tried spawn. XD
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Level 66
Aug 11, 2019
yup tried spawn here aswell, only thing I could come up with
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Level 66
Mar 24, 2020
Succesor is just the one that takes your place, no family required. So a succesor cán be your son (or other descendants) it does not need to be
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Level 77
Apr 23, 2015
what about survivor for descendent/heir? Mr. Rockefeller was survived by three sons...
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Level 55
Oct 24, 2015
I actually had to think "What was the name of that two hander movie with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine?"
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Level 77
Oct 24, 2015
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" should really be one of the words. Just because.
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Level 86
Jun 2, 2018
Okay, but you have to be in charge of deciding which alternate spellings to accept and responding to complaints about them.
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Level 30
Mar 13, 2016
Successor for the scion one?
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Level 15
Nov 10, 2018
Successor should be accepted as well as scion.
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Level ∞
Feb 9, 2019
Okay
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Level 39
May 24, 2019
Hahaha, I tried to put Superman as the answer to the "faster than the speed of sound" clue.
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Level 59
Nov 28, 2022
same :)
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Level 56
Aug 11, 2019
Detective = snoop
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Level 66
Aug 29, 2022
"a person who furtively tries to find out information about someone's private affair"

This is a definition for Snoop. I tried it to - it should be accepted I think!

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Level 35
Aug 11, 2019
Successor, Solar Plexus, Stronghold, Spliff, lots of potential doubles made this one tricky! (also maybe somnambulant should be accepted for somnambulism?)
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Level 66
Mar 24, 2020
Any chance you'd accept soliloqui? Pretty tough one for non english speakers, I was happy I even came up with it! :) Since there is sililoquism, soliloquist and soliloquizer (though hopefully I remember it now)

and for a bunch of others I found several that works as well, but in most cases the answer given is better (though sometimes only slightly..)

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Level 88
Sep 21, 2021
I thought the place where lumber was cut into boards meant the literal place on the piece of lumber
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Level 67
Feb 16, 2023
I know stogie in the context of weed so I guess that makes sense
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Level 75
Mar 17, 2023
Lumber = boards. Timber (logs) is cut into lumber (boards) at a sawmill.