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S — Sheet-anchor to Shrewd (Part 12 of 13)

    2. Parade, ostentation, flourish, dash, pomp, pageantry, splendor, display, ceremony.
    3. Semblance, resemblance, likeness, external appearance.
    4. Pretence, pretext, color, mask, simulation, speciousness, plausibility, illusion.

Showery, a. Rainy, wet.

Show fight. Take the offensive, lay about one.

Show off.

    1. (Active.) Exhibit (ostentatiously), display, make a parade of, set off.
    2. (Neuter.) Make a show, display one’s self, put on airs.

Show up. Expose.

Showy, a.

    1. Gaudy, flashy, gay, glaring, gairish, flaunting, gorgeous, splendid, fine, dressy, jaunty, airy, bedizened, pranked out, tinsel.
    2. Grand, stately, ostentatious, pompous, magnificent, sumptuous.

Shred, n.

    1. Strip.
    2. Scrap, fragment, bit, piece, flitter, tatter, rag, strip.

Shrew, n.

    1. Brawler, scold, termagant, vixen, virago, fury, turbulent woman.
    2. Shrew-mouse.

Shrewd, a.

    1. Evil, iniquitous, bad.
    2. Vixenish, scolding, shrewish.
    3. Vexatious, annoying, troublesome, painful, mischievous, malicious.