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1. susceptibility - A specific capability of feeling or emotion.

2. susceptible - Easily under a specified power or influence.

3. suspense - Uncertainty.

4. suspension - A hanging from a support.

5. suspicious - Inclined to doubt or mistrust.

6. sustenance - Food.

7. swarthy - Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.

8. Sybarite - A luxurious person.

9. sycophant - A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.

10. syllabic - Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.

11. syllabication - Division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.

12. syllable - That which is uttered in a single vocal impulse.

13. syllabus - Outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise.

14. sylph - A slender, graceful young woman or girl.

15. symmetrical - Well-balanced.

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