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Vocab Dose

Sacrilegious - Grossly irreverent toward what is considered holy

Sacrosanct - Treated as if holy and kept free from violation or criticism

Sagacious - Acutely insightful and wise

Salubrious - Promoting health

Sardonic - Disdainfully or ironically humorous

Satiate - Fill to satisfaction

Satirical - Exposing human folly to ridicule

Saturate -Infuse or fill completely

Scarce - Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand

Scathing - Marked by harshly abusive criticism


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