2. Assuage, calm, quiet, appease, tranquillize, compose, pacify, sober, still, lull, mollify, soften, balm.
    3. Moderate, alleviate, palliate, lessen, allay, repress, check, temper, soften, deaden, qualify, relieve, ease, dull, blunt.
    4. Delight, gratify, please, charm.

Soothsayer, n. Seer, foreteller, predictor, prophet, diviner, vaticinator, sorcerer, necromancer, augur.

Sooty, a. Dark, dusky, murky, fuliginous, black, sable.

Sophism, n. Fallacy, paralogism, paralogy, quibble, fallacious argument, specious argument.

Sophist, n. Quibbler, captious reasoner, fallacious reasoner, artful logician.

Sophistical, a. Fallacious, illogical, quibbling, unsound.

Sophisticate, v. a.

    1. Pervert, corrupt, vitiate, damage.
    2. Adulterate, debase, render spurious.

Sophisticate, a. Adulterated, spurious, counterfeit, debased, vitiated, perverted, corrupted, sophisticated.

Sophistication, n.

    1. Adulteration, corruption, vitiation.
    2. Quibbling.
    3. Quibble, fallacious argument, sophism.

Sophistry, n. Paralogy, paralogism, fallacy, shift, cavil, chicane, trick, quibble, fetch, stratagem, false logic, fallacious reasoning, inconclusive reasoning, reasoning in a circle.

Soporiferous, a. See Soporific.

Soporific, a. Somniferous, somnific, slumberous, soporiferous, narcotic, hypnotic, opiate, soporous.

Soporific, n. Narcotic, hypnotic, anæsthetic, opiate.

Soppy, a. Sopped, soaked, saturated, drenched.

Soprano, n. (Mus.) Treble, descant, discant.

Sorb, Sorb-tree, n. Service-tree (Sorbus domestica).

Sorcerer, n. Magician, conjurer, juggler, enchanter, necromancer, charmer, wizard, exorcist, diviner, seer, soothsayer.


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