Words with S

Sacred	regarded with great respect and reverence by a particular religion, group, or individual	IELTS Speaking – Test # 5
Salon	an establishment where a hairdresser or a beautician conducts trade	IELTS Speaking – Test # 5
Salvaged	rescue	IELTS Essays – Essay # 17
Sanctity	ultimate importance and inviolability	IELTS Essays – Essay # 33
Sane	reasonable or sensible	IELTS Essays – Essay # 19
Scandalous	causing general public outrage by a perceived offence against morality or law	IELTS Essays – Essay # 28
Scorn	a feeling and expression of contempt or disdain for someone or something	IELTS Essays – Essay # 14
Secularization	the historical process in which religion loses social and cultural significance	IELTS Essays – Essay # 17
Sedan	a car for four or more people	IELTS Essays – Essay # 53
Seed	cause (something) to begin to develop or grow	IELTS Essays – Essay # 14
Seeped	leak slowly through porous material or small holes	IELTS Essays – Essay # 32
Sell-outs	a betrayal of one's principles for reasons of expedience	IELTS Essays – Essay # 41
Sensational	causing great public interest and excitement	IELTS Essays – Essay # 41
Setback	a reversal in progress	IELTS Essays – Essay # 32
Shallow	not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought	IELTS Essays – Essay # 28
Shielding	protecting from a danger, risk, or unpleasant experience	IELTS Essays – Essay # 11
Shoplifting	the action of stealing goods from a shop while pretending to be a customer	IELTS Essays – Essay # 47
Skeptical	not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations	IELTS Speaking – Test # 7
Slump	undergo a sudden severe or prolonged fall in price, value, or amount	IELTS Graphs - Graph # 8
Slums	a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people	IELTS Letters – Letter # 2
Slushy	resembling or consisting of watery mud like substance	IELTS Graphs – Graph # 10
Soaring	climbing; rising	IELTS Essays – Essay # 57
Social fabric (phrase)	“Social Fabric” really is the glue which holds a society together	IELTS Essays – Essay # 49
Sorrowful	feeling or showing grief	IELTS Essays – Essay # 13
Sought	attempted to find something	IELTS Letters – Letter # 5
Spans	the length of time for which something lasts	IELTS Graphs - Graph # 7
Spare	additional to what is required for ordinary use	IELTS Essays – Essay # 9
Spatial (skills)	Spatial ability is the capacity to understand and remember the spatial relations among objects	IELTS Essays – Essay # 40
Stand	an attitude towards a particular issue	IELTS Essays – Essay # 26
Stark	unpleasantly or sharply clear	IELTS Essays – Essay # 36 IELTS Essays – Essay # 52
Statistics	a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data	IELTS Essays – Essay # 39
Stemmed	originated in or caused by	IELTS Essays – Essay # 10
Steward	a person employed to look after the passengers or patrons in a hotel or a train/aircraft	IELTS Letters – Letter # 8
Strategy	a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim	IELTS Essays – Essay # 14
Stride	progress; pace; footstep	IELTS Essays – Essay # 52
Striving	making great efforts to achieve or obtain something	IELTS Essays – Essay # 19
Stubborn	having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good reasons to do so	IELTS Essays – Essay # 22
Styrofoam	a kind of expanded polystyrene used especially for making food containers	IELTS Essays – Essay # 21
Supersedes	overthrows; replaces	IELTS Essays – Essay # 50
Supplementary	completing or enhancing something	IELTS Essays – Essay # 30
Surpassing	incomparable or outstanding	IELTS Essays – Essay # 10
Survive	continue to live or exist, especially in spite of danger or hardship	IELTS Essays – Essay # 9
Swanky	stylishly luxurious and expensive	IELTS Essays – Essay # 43 IELTS Essays – Essay # 55