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S — Sanguinary to Scandent (Part 6 of 11)

Sauria, n. pl. Lizards.

Saurian, n. Lizard.

Saury-pike, n. Skipper (Scomberesox saurus).

Sauvegarde, n. Monitor, lizard, great American safeguard (Lacerta monitor).

Savage, a.

    1. Uncultivated (as a forest), wild, rough, sylvan.
    2. Uncivilized (like an inhabitant of the woods), untaught, rude, unpolished.
    3. Wild, untamed, fierce, ferocious, rapacious, ravenous, ferine, blood-thirsty.
    4. Inhuman, beastly, brutal, brutish, brute.
    5. Cruel, barbarous, fierce, ferocious, inhuman, brutal, fell, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful, ruthless, merciless, heathenish, relentless, hard-hearted, sanguinary, bloody, murderous, truculent, vandalic.
    6. Enraged (colloq.).

Savage, n. Barbarian.

Savagely, ad. Cruelly, inhumanly, barbarously, fiercely.

Savageness, n.

    1. Barbarism.
    2. Cruelty, barbarousness, ferocity, barbarity.

Savagery, n.

    1. Savagism, barbarism.
    2. Cruelty, barbarity.

Savagism, n. Barbarism, savagery.

Savanna, n. Meadow, plain, plateau, prairie, open country, champaign country

Savant, n. Scholar, learned man, erudite person, one of the literati, man of science.