softness, n. mellowness, impressibility, plasticity, flaccidity, fictility, emollescence.

soft parts of the body.  Associated Word:  sarcology.

soft soap. (Colloq.) blandishment, blarney, palaver, buncombe, wheedling, cajolery, flattery.

soil, n. ground, earth, dirt, humus, land, loam, mold; dirt, pollution, defilement; manure, dung, faeces, excrement.

soil, v. dirty, defile, pollute, besmear, contaminate, taint, besmirch, sully, tarnish, begrime.

soldier, n. warrior; private; cadet; recruit; veteran; cavalry; infantry; cohort; sepoy; chasseur; zouave; volunteer; conscript; myrmidon; cossack; guerrilla; trooper; skirmisher; grenadier; uhlan; dragoon.

soldierly, a. martial, military.

soldier’s dress. uniform, regimentals.

solecism, n. blunder, impropriety, barbarism.

solemn, a. serious, sober, grave; impressive, awe-inspiring, august, majestic.

solemness, n. solemnity, gravity, impressiveness, seriousness.

solicit, v. ask, seek, request.

solicitation, n. request, instance, entreaty, invitation.

solid, a. dense, compact, hard, impenetrable, firm, unyielding, imporous, concrete, substantial; unanimous, united, undivided.  Antonyms:  porous, incompact, hollow, spongy, soft, plastic, unstable, fallacious.

solidness, n. solidity, firmness, compactness, stability, imporosity; validity.

soliloquy, n. monologue.

solitary, a. unfrequented, secluded, lonely; single, individual; eremetic, hermitical.

solitary, n. recluse, anchoret, hermit, eremite.

solitude, n. loneliness, isolation, seclusion, eremitism, retirement; wilderness.  Associated Words:  apanthropy, monophobia, eremophobia.

solution, n. dissolution, melting, liquefaction, resolution, disintegration; disentanglement, explanation, elucidation, explication.

solvent, n. menstruum, dissolvent, resolvent.

somersault, n. somerset.

sometimes, adv. at intervals, now and then, occasionally.

son, n.  Associated Words:  filial, filiation, unfilial, filicide, mulier, mulierty.

song, n. hymn, chant, lay, ditty, ballad, onody, chansonnette, lyric, lilt, lied, paean, cantata, aria, sonnet, strain, round, rhapsody, dirge, chanson.

songcraft, n. versification, poesy, poetry.

song of Solomon. canticle.

song of triumph. paean.

sonorous, a. resonant, resounding; high-sounding, stentorian, vibrant.

sonship, n. filiation.

soot, n. crock, smut.

soothe, v. compose, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, mollify, calm.

soothing, a. bland, emollient, demulcent, gratifying, quieting, sedative.

soothsayer, n. seer, prophet, diviner, haruspice, foreteller.

soothsaying, n. prophecy, augury, divination, prediction, prognostication.