• corposant  (a visible electric discharge on a pointed object, such as the mast of a ship or the wing of an airplane, during an electrical storm)
• sacrosanct  (regarded as sacred and inviolable)
• sanctify  (to set apart for sacred use; consecrate; to make holy; purify; to give religious sanction to, as with an oath or a vow; to give social or moral sanction to; to make productive of holiness or spiritual blessing)
• sanctimony  (feigned piety or righteousness; hypocritical devoutness or high-mindedness)
• sanction  (authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid; support or encouragement, as from public opinion or established custom; a consideration, an influence, or a principle that dictates an ethical choice; a law or decree; the penalty for noncompliance specified in a law or decree; a penalty, specified or in the form of moral pressure, that acts to ensure compliance or conformity; a coercive measure adopted usually by several nations acting together against a nation violating international law; to give official authorization or approval to; to encourage or tolerate by indicating approval)
• sanctity  (holiness of life or disposition; saintliness; the quality or condition of being considered sacred; inviolability; something considered sacred)
• sanctuary  (a sacred place, such as a church, temple, or mosque; the holiest part of a sacred place, as the part of a Christian church around the altar; a sacred place, such as a church, in which fugitives formerly were immune to arrest; immunity to arrest afforded by a sanctuary; a place of refuge or asylum; a reserved area in which birds and other animals, especially wild animals, are protected from hunting or molestation)
• sanctum  (a sacred or holy place; a private place where one is free from intrusion)
• Sanctus  (a hymn of praise sung at the end of the Preface in many Eucharistic liturgies)

• equivocal  (open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead; ambiguous; of uncertain significance; of a doubtful or uncertain nature)
• una voce  (with one voice; unanimously)
• univocal  (having only one meaning; unambiguous)
• viva voce  (by word of mouth)
• vocal  (of or relating to the voice; uttered or produced by the voice; having a voice; capable of emitting sound or speech; full of voices; resounding; tending to express oneself often or freely; outspoken; of or resembling vowels; vocalic; voiced; of, relating to, or performed by singing; a vocal sound; a popular composition for a singer, often with instrumental accompaniment)
• vociferate  (to utter [something] or cry out loudly and vehemently, especially in protest)
• voice  (the sound produced by the vocal organs of a vertebrate, especially a human being; the ability to produce such sounds; a specified quality, condition, or pitch of vocal sound; expiration of air through vibrating vocal cords, used in the production of vowels and voiced consonants; a sound resembling or reminiscent of vocal utterance; musical sound produced by vibration of the human vocal cords and resonated within the throat and head cavities; the quality or condition of a person's singing; a singer; one of the individual parts or strands in a composition; expression; utterance; a medium or an agency of expression; the right or opportunity to express a choice or an opinion; a property of verbs or a set of verb inflections indicating the relation between the subject and the action expressed by the verb; the distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or a character in a book; to give voice to; utter; to pronounce with vibration of the vocal cords; to provide [a composition] with voice parts; to regulate the tone of [the pipes of an organ, for example])
• vowel  (a speech sound created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity, usually forming the most prominent and central sound of a syllable; a letter, such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y in the English alphabet, that represents a vowel)

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