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splenetic imagination [splenetic = ill humor or irritability]

spontaneous challenge


sporadic exception


sportive gaiety


spotless honor


sprightly talk


spurious enthusiasm


squalid distress [squalid = Dirty and wretched; morally repulsive;
sordid]


squandered talent


squeamish taste


staggering surprise


stainless womanhood


stale sciolism [sciolism = superficial knowledge]


stalwart defiance


stammered apology


starched sterility


starlit eminence


startling eccentricity


starving proletariat


stately stride


statesmanlike person


statistical knowledge


statuesque immobility


staunch manhood


steadfast obedience


stentorian voice [stentorian = extremely loud]


stereotyped commonness


sterile hatred


sterling sense


stern defiance


stiff conceit


stifled convulsions


still solitudes


stilted bombast


stimulating impression


stinging reproach

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Definition:(adjective) Evident without proof or argument.
Synonyms:self-evident, taken for granted
Usage:It is axiomatic that as people grow older they become less agile.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942)
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