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sensitization

Short Definition : process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance; V. sensitize: make or become sensitive

Definition
(noun) the state of being sensitive (as to an antigen)
Synonyms : sensitisation
Definition
(noun) (psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations)
Synonyms : sensitisation
Definition
(noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections
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SENSITIZATION or SENSITIZE - cause to respond readily to STIMULI or stimulus.

sensual

Short Definition : devoted to the pleasures of the sense; carnal; voluptuous; Ex. sensual woman/curves/lips

Definition
(adj) marked by the appetites and passions of the body
Synonyms : animal carnal fleshly
Example Sentence
  • animal instincts
  • carnal knowledge
  • fleshly desire
  • a sensual delight in eating
  • music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Definition
(adj) sexually exciting or gratifying
Synonyms : sultry
Example Sentence
  • sensual excesses
  • a sultry look
  • a sultry dance
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SENSUAL indulging in PHYSICAL pleasures that also excite the MENTAL status of a person.

sensuous

Short Definition : giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin

Definition
(adj) taking delight in beauty
Example Sentence
  • the sensuous joy from all things fair
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SENSUOUS - indulging in excessive sensual PLEASURES.

sententious

Short Definition : pithy; terse; concise; aphoristic

Definition
(adj) abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing
Example Sentence
  • too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation
Definition
(adj) concise and full of meaning
Synonyms : pithy
Example Sentence
  • welcomed her pithy comments
  • the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
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Sentence+less - Someone who can concisely explain his views in just a few sentences (less sentences used).

Sententious: think of it as "Sentence + Conscious". Person who is sentence conscious will be terse or brief.

sentence+ious... full sentence in one word.

SENTENTIOUS-> SENTENCE+TENSION. "In a TENSION filled debate, you may only get one SENTENCE in; so, be SENTENTIOUS."

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SENTENTIOUS means filled with SENTIMENT(feeling).

sentence+ious... full sentence in one word.

sen ten. sen is sanity/intelligence. ten = 10/10. trying to show off u r 10/10 on intelligence

say so much in one sentence that it is better than a whole story.

Sentencing us to tension with your excessive moralizing - at least you're pithy!

Everyone on the beach was shocked when the local authorities SENTENced US for mixed bathing.

The judge read the sentence with a sententious look

sentient

Short Definition : capable of sensation and conscious; aware; sensitive; Ex. sentient creature; N. sentience

Definition
(adj) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Synonyms : animate
Example Sentence
  • the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
Definition
(adj) consciously perceiving
Example Sentence
  • sentient of the intolerable load
  • a boy so sentient of his surroundings
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Sentimental people are sentinent.

Sentient -> SENTI + ENT(Ear Nose Throat) .. Capable of sensation, Aware, Sensitive ..

SENTIENT - conscious, susceptible or responsive to sensation, is sensitive.

when you are senti for someone you are aware(sentient)for her/him

-Able to see or feel things through senses. Sentient = Sen(ses) + ENT (ear,nose,taste)

Abhor

sentimental

Short Definition : swayed by sentiment; appealing to the sentiments

Definition
(adj) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality Definition
(adj) effusively or insincerely emotional
Example Sentence
  • a bathetic novel
  • maudlin expressions of sympathy
  • mushy effusiveness
  • a schmaltzy song
  • sentimental soap operas
  • slushy poetry
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SENTIMENTAL which means, going by your sentiments (emotions) is the opposite of PRAGMATICAL which refers to someone who treats things from a PRACTICAL point of view.

sentinel

Short Definition : sentry; lookout

Definition
(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
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Sentinel=see at entry.Guard or Sentry.

senti"nel" (SA bowler) gets senti when he bowls a beamer and watches over the batsman so as to prevent a boundry on the next ball in case the batsman gets aggressive.. so he is a sentinel !!

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A SENTINEL is like a CONSTABLE - a soldier posted to keep watch and guard something.

sena at tunnel

sentinel: sent+in+el(elowd/allowed): we employed a watch man/gaurd at my wedding so that only people who has applied SENT will be ALLOWED (EL) IN inside.

sentinal prime : from transformers was keeping guard on the energon

septic

Short Definition : of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; N. sepsis: poisoning of part of the body (producing pus)

Definition
(adj) containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
Synonyms : infected
Example Sentence
  • a septic sore throat
  • a septic environment
  • septic sewage
Definition
(adj) of or relating to or caused by putrefaction
Example Sentence
  • the septic action occurs at the bottom of the septic tank
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An Anti-septic is used to prevent a wound from getting septic.

SEPTIC is a PROGNOSTIC (forecast of the course a disease) for the poisoning of the infected part of the body.

sepulcher

Short Definition : tomb; V: place in a sepulcher; ADJ. sepulchral

Definition
(noun) a chamber that is used as a grave
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it can be broken down into see(p)+ vulture .As vulture is human flesh eating animal will b found near tombs.

Sleep+HULCHAL- place where while sleeping u cant do any hulchul.

a vulture flies near the sepulchre for food...

SEPULCHER and PYRE which are more or less similar in sound, connect to the dead. While a SEPULCHER refers to a tomb (a burial), PYRE refers to the funeral pile which is lit up to cremate a dead body, a tradition prevalent in India

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: SEPULCHER = SHE(se)+PULL(pul)+CHAIR(cher). She pulls chair to attend ghost dinner party in a sepulcher.

sequester

Short Definition : isolate; segregate; seclude; retire from public life

Definition
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
Example Sentence
  • the estate was sequestered
Definition
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
Example Sentence
  • The FBI seized the drugs
  • The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
  • The police confiscated the stolen artwork
Definition
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
Example Sentence
  • The cations were sequestered
Definition
(verb) keep away from others
Example Sentence
  • He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
Definition
(verb) set apart from others
Example Sentence
  • The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
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seek + quest - those who seek to find something as a part of a quest have to leave the society or seclude themselves from it.

If I seek rest I would prefer seclusion

Sounds like Silverter, Jab Tweaty ne Silverter ka popat kiya.. To Silverster had to retire from public life.

sequester =see+twister==>when u see twister u "isolate" from ur dwelling place

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1st meaning: isolated:a person who quests the sea and lives ther alone<br><br> 2nd meaning : take possesions legally : suppose you lent me money for some land. with that money i buy an island. If m unable to payback u quest my sea

SYLVESTER stallone has now 'retired from public life' he is 'isolated' from films now

SEQUESTER ~ se (sea) + quester (questions) : He sequestered himself in his science books to find answers to questions related to sea water.

SEclude+QUEST-He SEcluded himself/isolated from family in QUEST of money and power

SEQUESTER or RETIRE - to exclude or ostracize from a society or group.

The adventurous guy went on a SEA-QUEST to find the mythical sea monster .. Being a dangerous journey, he had to journey alone. He find the monster on an ISOLATED and SECLUDED region of the ocean..

He was left SECLUDED and ISOLATED when his property was CONFISCATED

He was set apart from others and was sent on sea quest.

sequester: sequence + star i.e the stars r sited in sequence , isolated from each other

the requester was sequestered and beaten up to death

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