Vocabulary Words With Three S's

These words all contain the letter S three times. From the clues, can you work them out?
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definition
word
plays a deep-sounding orchestral instrument
bassoonist
advertising sections of a newspaper
classifieds
a ship needing immediate help is in this state
distress
Old Testament book
Ecclesiastes
don't throw stones from here
glasshouse
she entertains guests at her house
hostess
triangle with two equal sides
isosceles
tired; lacking energy
listless
she'll massage you
masseuse
vain, selfish, self-absorbed person
narcissist
definition
word
how plants draw water from the soil
osmosis
she thinks the glass is half-empty
pessimist
how plants use sunlight to create oxygen
photosynthesis
brings back to life, eg by CPR
resuscitates
giver and receiver of recreational pain (?)
sadomasochist
North Atlantic sea near Bermuda
Sargasso
beats paper but loses to rock
scissors
earthquake-measuring instruments
seismographs
to violate a law or moral code
transgress
huge, enormous, open space
vastness
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Level 90
Dec 14, 2015
Edits needed:

Bible _book_ not chapter

Make seismograph plural

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Level 76
Dec 14, 2015
Fixed. Gets me wondering - why DO they call biblical chapters "books"?