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- Sabbatical vs sabbath
- Sac vs. Sack
- Saccharin vs. saccharine
- Sachet vs. Sashay
- Sackcloth and ashes
- Sacred cow
- Sacrilege, sacrilegious
- Sadist vs. Masochist vs. Sadomasochism – Difference & Definition
- Said
- Sail vs. Sale – Homophones, Difference & Meaning
- Salacious
- Salient vs salience
- Salt of the earth
- Saltwater vs. salt water
- Salubrious vs lugubrious
- Salvage vs selvage or selvedge
- Same Difference – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Same old same old
- Samovar vs scimitar
- Sanatorium vs sanatarium
- Sanctimonious vs sanctify
- Sang vs sung
- Sangfroid – Meaning & Examples
- Sanguine vs exsanguinate
- Sanitise vs. Sanitize
- Sank vs. sunk
- Sans – Usage, Meaning & Definition
- Sarcasm
- Sarcophagus
- Sarcophagus vs mausoleum
- Sari vs sorry
- Sartorial vs satirical
- Satire vs satyr
- Satisficing vs satisfying
- Savanna vs. savannah
- Savant vs servant
- Save one’s bacon
- Save something for a rainy day
- Saved by the bell
- Saviour or Savior – Which One to Use?
- Savoir faire
- Savor vs. Saver
- Sawed vs. Sod
- Sawing logs and sawing wood
- Say when
- Scam or sham
- Scapegoat or Escape Goat – Origin & Meaning
- Scared vs scarred
- Scarfs vs. scarves
- Scatological
- Scavenger hunt
- Sceptic vs septic
- Sceptic vs. skeptic
- Schadenfreude – Usage & Meaning in English
- Schizophrenia as an adjective
- Schmooze and shmooze
- Schmuck versus putz
- Scintilla
- Scion
- Scissors
- Scofflaw
- Scorched earth policy
- Scot-free
- SCOTUS
- Scraping the bottom of the barrel
- Scrapped vs scraped
- Scratch the surface
- Scrip vs script
- Scrumdiddlyumptious
- Scrummy
- Scuba
- Scull vs. Skull
- Sculpture vs sculptor
- Sea change
- Seam vs seem
- Sear vs. seer vs. sere
- Seas, sees or seize
- Seasonable vs seasonal
- Secede vs. succeed
- Second string
- Second that emotion or notion or motion
- Second-Guess – Usage & Meaning
- Secret Santa
- Secret vs. secretive
- Secular vs sacred
- Security blanket
- Sediment vs sentiment
- Sedimentary vs sedentary
- Sedition vs sedation
- See a man about a dog and see a man about a horse
- See Eye to Eye – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
- See vs. Sea – Usage, Difference & Meaning
- Seen vs. Scene – Homophones & Meaning
- Segue vs Segway
- Seldomly – Meaning & Definition
- Self vs self
- Self-quarantine vs self-isolation
- Selfie
- Selling like hotcakes
- Semi-, hemi-, and demi-
- Seminal
- Semper fidelis
- Sensational vs sensationalistic
- Sense vs. Since vs. Cense – What’s the Difference?
- Senses vs census
- Sensual vs. sensuous
- Sentience vs sapience
- Sentient vs sentiment
- Separate vs separate
- Separate vs. Seperate – What’s the Difference?
- Sepulcher, crypt, catacomb or mausoleum
- Sequacious
- Sequins vs sequence
- Seraphic
- Serf vs. Surf
- Series
- Serif vs seraph
- Serigraph vs lithograph
- Service (as a verb)
- Serviette or napkin
- Set Up vs. Setup vs. Set-up
- Sever vs severe
- Sew vs. Sow – What’s the difference?
- Sewer vs sewer
- Shaggy-dog story
- Shake a leg
- Shake one’s head vs nod one’s head
- Shake vs. Sheikh
- Shall vs. will
- Shame vs ashamed
- Shanghai (as a verb)
- Shape up or ship out
- Sharable vs. shareable
- Shard or sherd
- Share and share alike vs per stirpes
- Sharp as a tack
- Shat vs. shitted
- Shaved vs. shaven
- Shear vs. sheer
- Sheath vs. sheathe
- Shed vs. shedded
- Shelf vs. shelve
- Shell game
- Shell out
- Shell-shocked
- Shellac, shellack
- Shenanigans
- Sherbert vs. sherbet
- Shill vs chill
- Shill vs shell
- Shined or Shone – Difference, Definition & Examples
- Ships passing in the night
- Shiv
- Shoe vs. Shoo
- Shone vs shown
- Shoo-in
- Shoot oneself in the foot
- Shoot the Breeze – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Shooting fish in a barrel
- Shooting the messenger and don’t shoot the messenger
- Shop till you drop
- Shopping cart or buggy
- Shore up
- Shore vs sure
- Short shrift
- Shotgun approach and scattershot approach
- Shotgun Wedding – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Should have, should’ve or should of
- Shoveled/shoveling vs. shovelled/shovelling
- Show of hands
- Show one’s cards and tip one’s hand
- Show one’s true colors
- Showboat
- Showrunner
- Shriveled/Shriveling vs. Shrivelled/Shrivelling
- Shtick
- Shuffle off this mortal coil
- Shut or close the barn door after the horse has bolted
- Shutter vs. shudder
- Sic semper tyrannis
- Sic vs. sick
- Side hustle
- Side vs sighed
- Sight for Sore Eyes – Origin & Meaning
- Sight vs. site
- Sign up vs signup
- Sign vs sine
- Signet vs. Cygnet
- Significant Other – Meaning & Origin
- Silicon vs. silicone
- Silva vs silver
- Silver lining
- Silver-tongued
- Simile
- Since vs because
- Sine die
- Sine qua non
- Sing for one’s supper
- Singly vs singularly
- Sink vs. Sync
- Sisyphean, Promethean or Herculean
- Sit at the feet of someone
- Sit vs set
- Site vs. Cite – What’s the Difference?
- Sitting duck
- Sitting in the catbird seat
- Sitting on a powder keg
- Six of one, half a dozen of the other
- Six ways from Sunday
- Sizable or sizeable
- Skating on thin ice and on thin ice
- Skid row vs skid road
- Skilful vs. skillful
- Skunkworks
- Slack vs slake
- Slam dunk
- Slap-happy
- Slave driver
- Slay vs. Sleigh
- Slayed or slew
- Sled, sledge, sleigh and toboggan
- Sledge vs sludge
- Sleep like a top
- Sleep with the fishes
- Sleight of hand
- Slip of the Tongue – Origin & Meaning
- Slipshod
- Slough vs slough
- Slough vs. Slew
- Slow and steady wins the race
- Slow vs. Sloe
- Slumgullion and goulash
- Smack of
- Smarmy
- Smart alec and smart aleck
- Smartphone vs smart phone
- Smarty-pants and smarty-boots
- Smell a rat
- Smelled vs. Smelt – Difference & Meaning
- Smite, smote, smitten
- Smoke and mirrors
- Smokey vs. smoky
- Smooth vs. Smoothe vs. Smoothen
- Smorgasbord
- Snake in the Grass – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Snake oil, snake-oil salesman
- Sneaked vs. snuck
- Snipe hunt
- Snitch
- Snobbery or snobbishness
- So to speak
- Soapbox
- Soar vs sore
- Soared vs. Sword
- Sob sister and sob story
- Soccer mom and hockey mom
- Social vs sociable
- Sojourn vs adjourn
- Solder vs soldier
- Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, & Sailors – What’s the Difference?
- Sole vs. Soul
- Soliloquy vs monologue
- Solitaire and patience games
- Somber vs. sombre
- Some odd
- Some Time vs Sometime vs Sometimes – What’s the Difference?
- Some vs sum
- Some way vs. someway
- Somebody vs. someone
- Someday vs. some day
- Someplace vs. some place
- Somersault
- Something smells fishy
- Sooner rather than later
- Sorbet
- Sort Of – Usage, Meaning & Examples
- Sorted vs. Sordid
- SOS and Mayday
- Sot vs. Sought
- Sound bite
- Sound like a broken record
- Sounding board
- Soup up
- Sour Grapes – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Sow vs sow
- Sow wild oats
- Spaces between sentences
- Spake
- Spanish fly
- Spare the rod; spoil the child
- Spat or spitted
- Spatter vs. splatter
- Speak for yourself
- Speak now or forever hold your peace
- Speak of the devil
- Speak to
- Speak truth to power
- Speak with a forked tongue
- Speaks volumes
- Spearhead – Usage & Definition
- Speciality vs. specialty
- Species
- Specious vs spurious
- Speck vs. Spec
- Specter vs. spectre
- Spectra vs. spectrums
- Sped vs. speeded
- Spelt or Spelled – Difference & Examples
- Spend a penny
- Spic and span vs spick and span
- Spiel or Schpiel – Meaning, Spelling & Examples
- Spiffy
- Spill the beans
- Spilled vs. spilt
- Spin a Yarn – Origin & Meaning
- Spin one’s wheels
- Spinster
- Spit and Image, Spitting Image, or Splitting Image
- Spitballing
- Spite vs respite
- Spitz vs. Spits
- Split Infinitive – Usage, Rules & Examples
- Split the difference
- Spoiled vs. spoilt
- Spoof
- Spoonerism vs malapropism
- Spoopy and creppy
- Spork
- Spouse vs espouse
- Spreaded
- Spruce Up – Origin & Meaning
- Spry
- Spur vs spurn
- Spur vs. spurn
- Square meal
- Squinch
- Stab in the back
- Stadia vs. stadiums
- Staff vs. Staph
- Staid vs stayed
- Stained glass
- Stair vs stare
- Stake vs. Steak
- Stalking horse
- Stanch vs. staunch
- Stand alone vs standalone
- Stand one’s ground and hold one’s ground
- Stand the test of time
- Stand up vs prop up
- Standby vs. stand by
- Star-crossed
- Starry-eyed and stars in one’s eyes
- Start from scratch
- Start with a clean slate and wipe the slate clean
- Stat vs now
- State of the art
- Stationary vs. stationery
- Statue vs statute
- Status quo
- Statute of limitations
- Stave off
- Stay on top of
- Staycation – Meaning & Etymology
- Steal someone’s thunder
- Steal vs steel
- STEM
- Step into the breach
- Step on someone’s toes
- Step up to the plate
- Step vs. Steppe
- Stick a fork in it
- Stick one’s neck out
- Stick out like a sore thumb
- Stick to one’s guns and stand to one’s guns
- Stick to, stick by, or stick with
- Stick-in-the-Mud – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Sticker shock
- Sticks and stones
- Sticktoitiveness
- Sticky fingers
- Stir the Pot or Stirring the Pot – Origin & Meaning
- Stir-Crazy – Origin, Usage & Meaning
- Stock vs stalk
- Stock, shares
- Stock-still
- Stockholm syndrome
- Stocking stuffer and stocking filler
- Stolen vs. Stollen
- Stomping ground and stamping ground
- Stone cold and stone-cold
- Stonewall – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Stool pigeon
- Stop and smell the roses
- Storey vs. Story
- Straight A’s
- Straight from the horse’s mouth
- Straight from the shoulder
- Straight shooter
- Straight vs. strait
- Strait-laced
- Straitjacket
- Stratagem vs. strategy
- Straw man and man of straw
- Straw that broke the camel’s back and the last straw
- Strike while the iron is hot
- Striped/striping vs stripped/stripping
- Strived, striven, strove
- Strop vs strap
- Sty vs. Stye
- Style vs stile
- Sub rosa vs sub-rosa
- Sub vs infra
- Subconscious vs. unconscious
- Subject to vs subjected to
- Subjugated vs subjected to
- Subjunctive Mood – Definition, Examples & Worksheet
- Subordinating conjunctions
- Suborn
- Subpoena
- Substantial vs. substantive
- Subtext
- Subtle vs. subtil
- Suede vs. Swayed
- Suffice to Say or Suffice It to Say – Meaning & Examples
- Sugar daddy
- Sugarcoat
- Sui generis
- Suit vs suite
- Suite vs. Sweet
- Sulfur vs. sulphur
- Sulk vs skulk
- Summa cum laude or magna cum laude
- Summary vs. summery
- Summons and summonses
- Sun vs. Son – Homophones, Meaning & Spelling
- Sunday driver
- Sunday vs. Sundae – Difference, Meaning & Spelling
- Super vs supra
- Super vs ultra
- Supersede or supercede
- Supply and demand
- Supposably
- Suppose To or Supposed To – Usage & Examples
- Surely vs surly
- Surge vs. Serge
- Surgeon vs sturgeon
- Surrogacy
- Surveil
- Suspect vs suspect
- Svengali
- Swan song
- Swanning around and swanning about
- Swashbuckle
- Swatch vs swath
- Swath vs. swathe
- Sweat vs. sweated
- Sweep something under the rug and sweep something under the carpet
- Sweeped or swept
- Sweet Tooth – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- Sweeten the pot
- Swing for the fences
- Sword of Damocles
- Sycophant
- Symbol vs. Cymbal – Meaning, Homophones & Spelling
- Symbolic vs symbiotic
- Synchronise or synchronize
- Synonym vs cinnamon
- Synonyms
- Systematic vs systematical
- Systematic vs. systemic
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- A shot across the bow
- A Slap In The Face – Meaning & Examples
- A Slap on the Wrist – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- A stitch in time saves nine
- A stone’s throw
- Actualise vs actualize
- Are Seasons Capitalized? Examples in a Sentence
- Ascribe vs subscribe
- At Sixes and Sevens – Origin & Meaning
- Auspicious vs suspicious
- Biannual, biennial and semiannual
- Bimonthly and semimonthly
- Biweekly vs semiweekly
- Brackets vs. Parentheses
- By the Skin of My Teeth – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- Caduceus vs staff of Asclepius
- Car park vs parking lot
- Carved in stone, set in stone and written in stone
- Catalyse or catalyze
- Cede and seed
- Ceiling vs sealing
- Cel, cell or sell
- Cellar vs. Seller
- Cent, scent and sent
- Cereal vs. Serial
- Chip on Your Shoulder – Origin & Meaning
- Cistern vs sister
- Comparatives and Superlatives – Examples & Worksheet
- Conscience, conscious and self-conscious
- Conservatory, solarium or sunroom
- Daylight Saving Time or British Summer Time
- Declarative, imperative, exclamatory and interrogative sentences
- Decrepit vs deprecate
- Dire straits
- Dotage vs senility
- Ending a Sentence With a Preposition (Worksheet Included)
- Energize vs energise
- Ensconce vs sconce
- Epithet vs sobriquet
- Especially vs specially
- Excrete vs secrete
- Fall Through the Cracks or Slip Through the Cracks
- Firsthand and secondhand vs first-hand and second-hand
- From Soup to Nuts
- Get the ball rolling and start the ball rolling
- Glass ceiling
- Go into a tailspin and send someone into a tailspin
- Grasping at straws or clutching at straws
- Homily vs. Sermon – Difference, Meaning & Examples
- How and When to Properly Use a Semicolon [;] – With Examples
- How to Use Stank vs. Stunk Correctly
- Hustle and side hustle
- Identifying Subjects and Predicates With Printable Worksheets
- Idiot savant or savant syndrome
- In situ
- Infuse vs suffuse
- Is It Savy or Savvy? – Definition & Correct Spelling
- Limelight vs spotlight
- Lion’s share
- List of 50+ English Suffixes With Examples & Worksheet
- Lose face and save face
- Magic bullet and silver bullet
- Move the goalposts and shift the goalposts
- Murphy’s Law, Sod’s Law and Finagle’s Law
- On a shoestring and shoestring budget
- On the stump and stump speech
- On the wrong foot and on the right foot
- Pervert vs subvert
- Plain sailing, smooth sailing, and clear sailing
- Poor sport, sore loser and sore winner
- Preternatural vs supernatural
- Psalter vs salter
- Psychopath vs. sociopath
- Resolve vs solve
- Tempest in a teapot and storm in a teacup
- The squeaky wheel gets the grease
- The Straw Man Fallacy: Meaning and Examples
- Top banana and second banana
- Training wheels vs stabilisers
- Types of Sentences With Examples –Â Declarative, Imperative, Exclamatory, and Interrogative
- Urban, suburban and rural
- Valedictorian and salutatorian
- What Does [Sic] Mean? – Definition & Examples
- What Does Sanction Mean? – Definition & Examples
- What Is a Good Samaritan? – Idiom, Meaning & Origin
- What Is a Scrooge? – Meaning & Origin
- What is a Skinflint? – Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Skort? – Meaning & Definition
- What Is a Smoking Gun? – Idiom, Origin & Meaning
- What Is a Snark? – Usage & Definition
- What Is Simpatico? – Usage & Meaning in English
- Wrench and spanner
- Writing in First, Second, and Third Person – Ultimate Guide (Worksheet Included)
- Yam vs sweet potato
- Épée, foil or sabre