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List of Words for Letter 'S'

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• sales tax money added to the cost of an item to be paid to the government
• Santa Fe Trail the earliest trail west, established in 1821 as a trade route to Mexico
• savings money that is put away to be used later
• scarcity a shortage of resources or products
• search engine a computer program that finds information on the World Wide Web
• sea level the level of the surface of the sea
• secede to withdraw or formally leave an organization such as a government
• secondary source an account of an event from a person who did not see or experience it
• segregation the practice of keeping one racial group apart from another
• service industry a business in which people help others
• shares of stock a part of a company that someone buys as an investment
• silicon a chemical element found in rocks and sand that is used in making glass, transistors, and computer chips
• slavery the practice of forcing people to work for no money and without the freedom to leave
• solution an answer to a problem
• source the place where a river begins
• states' rights the belief that each state should be allowed to make decisions
• strike a refusal of all the workers in a business to work until the owners meet their demands
• suffrage the right to vote
• supply and demand the amount of a goods or services that are available in comparison to the amount that will be purchased
• surplus amount greater than what is used or needed