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S-2 - SIGNIFICANT PHRASES - FIFTEEN THOUSAND USEFUL PHRASES

shelter and safeguard

shifts and compromises


shivering and chattering


shocked and astonished


short and precarious


shreds and tatters


shrewd and diligent


shrill and piercing


shrinking and nervous


shy and subdued


significant and sinister


signs and tokens


silence and obscurity


similarities and resemblances


simple and straightforward


simpletons and nincompoops


sincerity and frankness


sinewy and active


skill and coolness


skulk and shirk


sleek and languid [languid = lacking energy or vitality; weak]


slight and precarious


slipshod and untidy


slothfulness and perversity


slow and sluggish


slumbering and unsuspected


small and hampered


smirched and tarnished


smoothness and artifice


sneering and sentimental


soberly and truthfully


softness and effeminacy


solemn and dramatic


solitary and idle


solitude and depression


sonorous and musical


sons and scions [scions = descendant or heir]


soporific and sodden [soporific = inducing sleep]


sordid and stupid

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