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Words starting with S

Words that start with S

Six slippery snakes sailed southward on a silver ship to Sydney.

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Animals starting with S

Animals

Photo of squash.

Food

Plants that start with S

Plants

Adjectives that start with S

Adjectives

Verbs that start with S

Verbs

Countries that start with S

Countries

Cities that start with S

Cities

Jobs that start with S

Jobs

Photo of a skull.

Body parts

Photo of strawberries

Fruit

Photo of a swan.

Birds

Photo of a cat looking
Photo by Jean-Simon Asselin
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Sis forSee

You see something if you can tell it is there, using your eyes. Being able to see means you have the sense of sight. Someone who cannot see is blind.
Verbs
Photo of some sprouting seeds
Photo by Yoppy
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Sis forSeed

Baby plants grow from seeds. If you bury a seed in soil and keep it moist, after a few days it will crack open and grow. Roots grow first from the seed, then the leaves. The seeds in the picture are sunflower seeds, just beginning to sprout.
Plant parts
Photo of a seer
Photo by Giannis Angelakis
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Sis forSeer

A seer is a person who can see the future, or who has profound insight or knowledge. A similar word to seer is prophet.
Jobs
Photo of a seesaw or teeter totter
Photo by Peat Bakke
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Sis forSeesaw

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A seesaw, or teeter totter, is a long board that is held up at a pivot point in the middle. When one end goes up, the other end goes down. You play with it by having one person sitting at each end, and you both go up and down in turn.
Toys and games
Photo of mandarin segments
Photo by Liz West
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Sis forSegment

A segment is a part of something that can be divided off naturally, without cutting. Oranges and mandarins can be easily broken into segments. You can clearly see the segments of the mandarin in the picture. Segments can also be used to describe parts of some kinds of a creepy crawly like a millipedes body, where there are clear separations between the parts.
Parts
Photo of someone buying some goods
Photo by Yun Huang Yong
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Sis forSell

You sell something when you give it to someone else in exchange for some money. The man in the picture is in a shop selling some goods to a customer. The opposite of sell is buy. The past tense of sell is sold.
Financial, Verbs
Photo of the send button on a fax machine
Photo by Dave Crosby
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Sis forSend

You send something when you make it go somewhere. You send a parcel by taking it to a post office. You send out your troops by ordering them to go.
Verbs
Photo of graffiti that ways sent
Photo by Bert 23 Baum
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Sis forSent

Sent is the past tense of send. For example, "I sent you a parcel in the post".
Verbs, Past
Photo of words printed in a book
Photo by Seniju
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Sis forSentence (text)

A sentence is a group of words that make sense on their own, terminated by punctuation.
Texts
Photo of a woman in jail
Photo by JOPHIELsmiles
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Sis forSentence (law)

A sentence is something someone has said you must do as a punishment. The woman in the picture has been sentenced to some time in jail.
Law