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Sorbin
- - An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar.
Sordid
- adjective - Dirty
- foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
- morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
Sortie
- noun - (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
Sprain
- noun -
- a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments
Spruik
- unknown - advertise loudly, promote or publicize
- to harangue, to address publicly, to call for customers.
Strain
- noun - A group of bacteria or viruses that are genetically distinct from other groups of the same species.
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress;
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- an intense or violent exertion
- become stretched or tense or taut;
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension;
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- remove by passing through a filter;
- rub through a strainer or proce
Strait
- adjective - a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- narrow; "strait is the gate"