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Slum
- noun - a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
- spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; "attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century"
Slur
- noun - (music) a curved line spanning notes that are to be played legato
- a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
- a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"
- become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
- play smoothly or legato; "the pianist slurred the most beautiful passage in the sonata"
- speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur; "your comments are slurring your co-workers"
- utter indistinctly
Slut
- noun - a dirty untidy woman
- a woman adulterer
Smug
- adjective - marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation"
Smut
- noun - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
- an offensive or indecent word or phrase
- any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
- become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
- creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
- destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
- make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
- stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
Snub
- adjective - a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"
- an instance of driving away or warding off
- refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
- reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
- unusually short; "a snub nose"
Snug
- adjective - a small secluded room
- enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space; "a cozy nook near the fire"; "snug in bed"; "a snug little apartment"
- fitting closely but comfortably;
- offering safety; well protected or concealed; "a snug harbor"; "a snug hideout"
- The joiner in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- well and tightly constructed; "a snug house"; "a snug little sailboat"
Souk
- noun - an open-air market in an Arabian city
Soul
- noun - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
- a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s; "soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"
- deep feeling or emotion
- the human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor"
- the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life