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Surliness
- noun - a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees"
- Irritability, bad temper.
Swallowed
- verb - believe or accept without questioning or challenge; "Am I supposed to swallow that story?"
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
- engulf and destroy; "The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries"
- keep from expressing; "I swallowed my anger and kept quiet"
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!"
- take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words"
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
- utter indistinctly; "She swallowed the last words of her speech"
Swallower
- - One who swallows; also, a glutton.
Swellfish
- - Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
Swellings
- noun - an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
- the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
Sweltered
- verb - be uncomfortably hot
- suffer from intense heat; "we were sweltering at the beach"
Swillings
- noun - the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly
Syllabary
- noun - a writing system whose characters represent syllables