Sleek, slick, glossy, velvety, silken, silky, satiny are comparable when they mean having a smooth bright surface or appearance.

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Slatternly, dowdy, frowzy, blowsy can all mean deficient in neatness, freshness, or smartness, especially in dress or appearance.

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Slant, slope, incline, lean are comparable when they mean to diverge or cause to diverge from a vertical or horizontal line.

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Skip, bound, hop, curvet, lope, lollop, ricochet can all mean to move or advance with successive springs or leaps.

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Skin, decorticate, peel, pare, flay can mean to divest something of its skin or thin outer covering.

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Skin, hide, pelt, rind, bark, peel can all denote an outer removable coat which adheres to and protects the inner tissues of a body or organism.

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Sketch, outline, diagram, delineate, draft, trace, plot, blueprint are comparable when they mean to present or to represent something by or as if by drawing its lines or its features.

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Size, dimensions, area, extent, magnitude, volume are here compared primarily as terms meaning the amount of space occupied or sometimes of time or energy used by a thing and determinable by measuring.

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Sinister, baleful, malign, malefic, maleficent all mean seriously threatening, portending, or promising evil or disaster, usually imminent or already initiated evil or disaster.

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Single, sole, unique, lone, solitary, separate, particular can all mean one as distinguished from two or more or all others.

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Sing, troll, carol, descant, warble, trill, hymn, chant, intone all mean to produce musical tones by or as if by means of the voice.

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Sincere, wholehearted, whole-souled, heartfelt, hearty, unfeigned can mean genuine in feeling or expression or showing such genuineness.

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