| Sr No. | Word | hindi | Meaning | Example |
| 3046 | saboteur | नुक़सान पहुंचानेवाला | one who commits sabotage;
destroyer of property | Members of the Resistance acted
as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army. |
| 3047 | saccharine | चीनी का | cloyingly sweet | She tried to ingratiate herself,
speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.
|
| 3048 | sacrilegious | पवित्र वस्तु दूषक | desecrating; profane | His stealing of the altar cloth
was a very sacrilegious act. |
| 3049 | sacrosanct | पुण्यमय | most sacred; inviolable | The brash insurance salesman
invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company. |
| 3050 | sadistic | परपीड़क | inclined to cruelty | If we are to improve conditions
in this prison, we must first get rid of the sadistic warden. |
| 3051 | saga | कथा | Scandinavian myth; any legend | This is a saga of the sea and
the men who risk their lives on it. |
| 3052 | sagacious | मेधावी | keen; shrewd; having insight | He is much too sagacious to be
fooled by a trick like that. |
| 3053 | sage | ऋषि | person celebrated for wisdom | Hearing tales of a mysterious
Master of All Knowledge who lived in the hills of Tibet, Sandy was possessed
with a burning desire to consult the legendary sage. |
| 3054 | salacious | कामातुर | lascivious; lustful | Chaucer's monk is not pious but
salacious, a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests. |
| 3055 | salient | मुख्य | prominent | One of the salient features of
that newspaper is its excellent editorial page. |
| 3056 | saline | खारा | salty | The slightly saline taste of
this mineral water is pleasant. |
| 3057 | sallow | भूरे रंग का | yellowish; sickly in color | We were disturbed by his sallow
complexion, which was due to jaundice. |
| 3058 | salubrious | स्वास्थ्यप्रद | healthful | Many people with hay fever move
to more salubrious sections of the country during the months of August and
September. |
| 3059 | salutary | लाभदायक | tending to improve; beneficial;
wholesome | The punishment had a salutary
effect on the boy, as he became a model student. |
| 3060 | salvage | उबार | rescue from loss | All attempts to salvage the
wrecked ship failed. |
| 3061 | sanctimonious | पाखंडी | displaying ostentatious or
hypocritical devoutness | You do not have to be so
sanctimonious to prove that you are devout. |
| 3062 | sanction | प्रतिबंध | approve; ratify | Nothing will convince me to
sanction the engagement of my daughter to such a worthless young man. |
| 3063 | sanguinary | अभिशप्त | bloody | The battle of lwo Jina was
unexpectedly sanguinary with many casualties. |
| 3064 | sanguine | आशावादी | cheerful; hopeful | Let us not be too sanguine about
the outcome; something could go wrong. |
| 3065 | sap | पौधों का रस | diminish; undermine | The element kryptonite had an
unhealthy effect on Superman: it sapped his strength. |
| 3066 | sarcasm | ताना | scornful remarks, stinging
rebuke | His feelings were hurt by the
sarcasm of his supposed friends. |
| 3067 | sardonic | तिरस्कारपूर्ण | disdainful; sarcastic; cynical | The sardonic humor of nightclub
comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some
people as amusing and others as rude. |
| 3068 | sartorial | दज़ी-संबंधी | pertaining to tailors | He was as famous for the
sartorial splendor of his attire as he was for his acting. |
| 3069 | sate | ऊबाना | satisfy to the full; cloy | Its hunger sated, the lion
dozed. |
| 3070 | satellite | उपग्रह | small body revolving around a
larger one | During the first few years of
the Space Age, hundreds of satellites were launched by Russia and the United
States. |
| 3071 | satiate | पूरा करना | surfeit; satisfy fully | The guests, having eaten until
they were satiated, now listened inattentively to the speakers. |
| 3072 | satire | व्यंग | form of literature in which
irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack vice and folly | Gulliver's Travels, which is
regarded by many as a tale for children, is actually a bitter satire
attacking human folly. |
| 3073 | satirical | व्यंगपूर्ण | mocking | The humor of cartoonists Gary
Trudeau often is satirical; though the comments of the Doonesbury characters,
Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly. |
| 3074 | saturate | तर | soak | Their clothes were saturated by
the rain. |
| 3075 | saturnine | सीसे का | gloomy | Do not be misled by his
saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks. |
| 3076 | satyr | ऐयाश | half-human, half-bestial being
in the court of Dionysus, portrayed as wanton and cunning | He was like a satyr in his
lustful conduct. |
| 3077 | saunter | सैर | stroll slowly | As we sauntered through the
park, we stopped frequently to admire the spring flowers. |
| 3078 | savant | पंडित | scholar | Our faculty includes many
worldfamous savants. |
| 3079 | savor | स्वाद | enjoy; have a distinctive
flavor, smell, or quality | Relishing his triumph, Costner
especially savored the chagrin of the critics who had predicted his failure. |
| 3080 | savory | दिलकश | tasty; pleasing, attractive, or
agreeable | Julia Child's recipes enable
amateur chefs to create savory delicacies for their guests. |
| 3081 | scabbard | म्यान | case for a sword blade; sheath | The drill master told the
recruit to wipe the blood from his sword before slipping it back into the
scabbard. |
| 3082 | scad | एक प्रकार की मछली | a great quantity | Refusing Dave's offer to lend
him a shirt, Phil replied, "No, thanks: I've got scads of clothes." |
| 3083 | scaffold | पाड़ | temporary platform for workers;
bracing framework; platform for execution | Before painting the house, the
workers put up a scaffold to allow them to work on the second story. |
| 3084 | scale | स्केल | climb up; ascend | To locate a book on the top
shelf of the stacks, Lee had to scale an exceptionally rickety ladder. |
| 3085 | scanty | अल्प | meager; insufficient | Thinking his helping of food was
scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more. |
| 3086 | scapegoat | बलि का बकरा | someone who bears the blame for
others | After the Challenger disaster,
NASA searched for scapegoats on whom they could cast the blame. |
| 3087 | scavenge | मांजना | hunt through discarded materials
for usable items; search, especially for food | If you need car parts that the
dealers no longer stock, try scavenging for odd bits and pieces at the auto
wreckers' yards. |
| 3088 | scenario | परिदृश्य | plot outline; screenplay; opera
libretto | Scaramouche startled the other
actors in the commedia troupe when he suddenly departed from their customary
scenario and began to improvise. |
| 3089 | schematic | ढांच के रूप में | relating to an outline or
diagram; using a system of symbols | In working out the solution to
an analytical logic question, you may find it helpful to construct a simple
schematic diagram illustrating the relationships between the items of
information given in the question. |
| 3090 | schism | फूट | division; split | Let us not widen the schism by
further bickering. |
| 3091 | scintilla | झलक | shred; least bit | You have not produced a
scintilla of evidence to support your argument. |
| 3092 | scintillate | चमकना | sparkle; flash | I enjoy her dinner parties
because the food is excellent and the conversation scintillates. |
| 3093 | scoff | उपहास | mock; ridicule | He scoffed at dentists until he
had his first toothache. |
| 3094 | scotch | स्कॉच | stamp out; thwart; hinder | Heather tried to scotch the
rumor that she had stolen her best friend's fiance. |
| 3095 | scourge | कोड़ा | lash; whip; severe punishment | They feared the plague and
regarded it as a deadly scourge. |
| 3096 | scruple | संदेह | fret about; hesitate, for
ethical reasons | Fearing that her husband had
become involved in an affair, she did not scruple to read his diary. |
| 3097 | scrupulous | ईमानदार | conscientious; extremely
thorough | I can recommend him for a
position of responsibility for I have found him a very scrupulous young man. |
| 3098 | scrutinize | ताकना | examine closely and critically | Searching for flaws, the
sergeant scrutinized every detail of the private's uniform. |
| 3099 | scuffle | हाथापाई | struggle confusedly; move off in
a confused hurry. | The twins briefly scuffled,
wrestling to see which of them would get the toy. When their big brother
yelled, "Let go of my Gameboy!" they scuffled off down the hall. |
| 3100 | scurrilous | अपमानजनक | obscene; indecent | Your scurrilous remarks are
especially offensive because they are untrue. |
| 3101 | scurry | बौछाड़ | move briskly | The White Rabbit had to scurry
to get to his appointment on time. |
| 3102 | scurvy | पाजी | despicable; contemptible | Peter Pan sneered at Captain
Hook and his scurvy crew. |
| 3103 | scuttle | अऋगीठी | sink | The sailors decided to scuttle
their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy. |
| 3104 | seamy | जोड़दार | sordid; unwholesome | In the Godfather, Michael
Corleone is unwilling to expose his wife and children to the seamy side of
his life as the son of a Mafia don. |
| 3105 | sear | जलाना | char or burn; brand | Accidentally brushing against
the hot grill, she seared her hand badly. |
| 3106 | seasoned | अनुभवी | experienced | Though pleased with her new
batch of rookies, the basketball coach wished she had a few more seasoned
players on the team. |
| 3107 | secession | अपगमन | withdrawal | The secession of the Southern
states provided Lincoln with his first major problem after his inauguration. |
| 3108 | seclusion | तनहाई | isolation; solitude | One moment she loved crowds; the
next, she sought seclusion. |
| 3109 | secrete | छिपाना | hide away or cache; produce and
release a substance into an organism. | The pack rat secretes odds and
ends in its nest; the pancreas secretes insulin in the islets of Langerhans. |
| 3110 | sectarian | सांप्रदायिक | narrow-minded; limited in scope | As university chaplain, she
sought to address universal religious issues and not limit herself to mere
sectarian concerns. |
| 3111 | secular | धर्म निरपेक्ष | worldly; not pertaining to
church matters; temporal | The church leaders decided not
interfere in secular matters. |
| 3112 | sedate | गंभीर | composed; grave | The parents were worried because
they felt their son was too quiet and sedate. |
| 3113 | sedative | सीडेटिव | calming drug or influence | It is dangerous to drive after
taking the sedative; it brings drowsiness. |
| 3114 | sedentary | गतिहीन | requiring sitting | Because he had a sedentary
occupation, he decided to visit a gymnasium weekly. |
| 3115 | sedition | विद्रोह | resistance to authority;
insubordination | His words, though not treasonous
in themselves, were calculated to arouse thoughts of sedition. |
| 3116 | sedulous | परिश्रमी | diligent | The young woman was so sedulous
that she received a commendation for her hard work. |
| 3117 | seedy | अस्वस्थ | run-down; decrepit; disreputable | I would rather stay in dormitory
lodgings in a decent youth hostel than have a room of my own in a seedy
downtown hotel. |
| 3118 | seemly | छबीला | proper; appropriate | Lady Bracknell did not think it
was seemly for Ernest to lack a proper family; no baby abandoned on a
doorstep could grow up to marry her daughter. |
| 3119 | seep | रिसना | ooze; trickle | During the rainstorm, water
seeped through the crack in the basement wall and damaged the floor boards. |
| 3120 | seethe | उबलना | be disturbed; boil | The nation was seething with
discontent as the nobleman continued their arrogant ways. |
| 3121 | seine | सीन | net for catching fish | When the shad run during the
spring, you may see fishermen with seines along the banks of our coastal
rivers. |
| 3122 | seismic | भूकंपीय | pertaining to earthquakes | The Richter scale is a
measurement of seismic disturbances. |
| 3123 | semblance | दिखावा | outward appearance; guise | Although this book has a
semblance of wisdom and scholarship, a careful examination will reveal many
errors and omissions. |
| 3124 | seminal | लाभदायक | germinal; influencing future
developments; related to seed or semen | Although Freud has generally
been regarded as a seminal thinker who shaped the course of psychology, his
psychoanalytic methods have come under attack recently. |
| 3125 | seminary | पाठशाला | school for training future
ministers; secondary school, especially for young women | Sure of his priestly vocation,
Terrence planned to pursue his theological training at the local Roman
Catholic seminary. |
| 3126 | senility | बुढ़ापा | old age; feeble mindedness of
old age | Most of the decisions are being
made by the junior members of the company because of the senility of the
president. |
| 3127 | sensual | कामुक | devoted to the pleasures of the
senses; carnal; voluptous | I cannot understand what caused
him to drop his sensual way of life and become so ascetic. |
| 3128 | sensuous | कामुक | pertaining to the physical
senses; operating through the senses | He was stimulated by the sights,
sounds and smells about him; he was enjoying his sensuous experience. |
| 3129 | sententious | उपदेशात्मक | terse; concise; aphoristic | After reading so many redundant
speeches, I find his sententious style particulary pleasing. |
| 3130 | sentinel | पहरेदार | sentry; lookout | Though camped in enemy
territory, Bledsoe ignored the elementary precaution of posting sentinels
around the encampment. |
| 3131 | septic | विषाक्त | putrid; producing putrefaction | The hospital was in such a
filthy state that we were afraid that many of the patients would suffer from
septic poisoning. |
| 3132 | sepulcher | क़ब्र | tomb | Annabel Lee was buried in a
sepulcher by the sea. |
| 3133 | sequester | एकांत में रहना | retire from public life;
segregate; seclude | Although he had hoped for a long
time to sequester himself in a small community, he never was able to drop his
busy round of activities in the city. |
| 3134 | sere | मुरझाया हुआ | parched; dry | After the unseasonably dry
winter the Berkeley hills looked dusty and sere. |
| 3135 | serendipity | नसीब | gift for finding valuable or
desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck | Many scientific discoveries are
a matter of serendipity: Newton was not sitting there thinking about gravity
when the apple dropped on his head. |
| 3136 | serenity | शांति | calmness; placidity | The serenity of the sleepy town
was shattered by a tremendous explosion. |
| 3137 | serpentine | टेढ़ा | winding; twisting | The car swerved at every curve
in the serpentine road. |
| 3138 | serrated | दाँतेदार | having a sawtoothed edge | The beech tree is one of many
plants that have serrated leaves. |
| 3139 | servile | ग़ुलामी का | slavish; cringing | Constantly fawning on his
employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature. |
| 3140 | servitude | दासत्व | slavery; compulsory labor | Born a slave, Douglass resented
his wife of servitude and plotted to escape to the North. |
| 3141 | severance | पृथक्करण | division; partition; separation | The severance of church and
state is a basic principle of our government. |
| 3142 | severity | तीव्रता | harshness; plainness | The newspapers disapproved of
the severity of the sentence. |
| 3143 | sextant | षष्ठक | navigation tool used to
determine a ship's latitude and longitude | Given a clear night, with the
aid of his sextant and compass, he could keep the ship safely on course. |
| 3144 | shackle | बेड़ी | chain; fetter | The criminal's ankles were
shackled to prevent his escape. |
| 3145 | sham | दिखावा | pretend | He shammed sickness to get out
of going to school. |
