Dictionary Vocabulary Words December 2025 List #10

Scintillating

(adj.) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light

(adj.) marked by high spirits or excitement

(adj.) brilliantly clever

Spartan

(adj.) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment (nonindulgent, strict)

(adj.) practicing great self-denial (ascetic)

(adj.) resolute (firm, determined) in the face of pain or danger or adversity

Stigma

(n.) a symbol of disgrace or infamy

(n.) a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease

(n.) the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

(n.) an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod

Stoic

(adj.) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive

(n.) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions

Suave

(adj.) having a sophisticated charm (debonair)

(adj.) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

Supercilious

(adj.) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy (imperious)

(adj.) expressive of contempt (sneering, snide)

Sycophant

(n.) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage (lackey)

Teetotaler

(n.) someone who abstains from drinking alcoholic beverages

Tete-a-tete

(n.) a private conversation between two people

(adj.) involving two persons; intimately private

(n.) small sofa that seats two people (loveseat)

Tirade

(n.) a speech of violent denunciation