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Sanction: 1. Formal and explicit approval 2. A mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards 3. The act of final authorization 4. Give authority or permission to

Sanity: 1. The state of being sane or sound; soundness of mind; mental health 2. Normal or sound powers of mind 3. Mentally healthy; free from mental disorder 4. Sane moderation of reasonableness 5. We Don’t have to act on our first impulse. (It works How & Why Pg.25) 6. Effectively relating to others (Basic Text Pg. 40)

Satisfactory: 1. Giving satisfaction 2. Meeting requirements

Satisfy: 1. Fulfil the requirements or expectations of 2. Make happy or satisfied 3. Fill or meet a want or need

Scheming: 1. Form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner 2. Devise a system or form a scheme for 3. Used of persons 4. Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest 5. Was our way of denying our powerlessness. As long as we could distract ourselves with our plans, we could put off accepting that we were out of control. (Just For Today Pg.309)

Scope: 1. An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control 2. The state of the environment in which a situation exists 3. An instrument that magnifies the image of distant objects 4. Provides visual images of varying electrical quantities

Searching: 1. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone 2. Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of 3. Inquire into 4. Diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation 5. Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect 6. Exploring thoroughly

Secrets: 1. Represent spiritual territory we are unwilling to surrender to the principles of recovery. (Just For Today Pg.268)

Self-absorption: 1. Preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else

Self-acceptance: 1.Knowing that it is all right to find ourselves in pain, to have made mistakes, and to know that we are not perfect (Self-acceptance IP No.19)

Self-centered : 1. Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

Self-centeredness: 1. Attempting to get personal recognition for yourself (especially by unacceptable means) 2. Our belief that the world revolves around us. Our wishes, our demands, are the only ones worth consideration. (Just For Today Pg.26)

Self-discipline: 1. The trait of practicing self discipline 2. The act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses 3. To do certain things regardless of how we feel.(Step Working Guides Pg.101)

Self-esteem: 1. A feeling of ride in yourself

Selfishness: 1. Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

Self-loathing: 1. Results when we try to forgive ourselves but don’t feel forgiven. (Just For Today Pg.223)

Self-pity: 1. A feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings 2. Can arise from living in our expectations instead of in the world as it actually is (Just For Today Pg.342)

Self-seeking: 1. Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

Self-will: 1. Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires 2. Control of one's behavior 3. Reflects our reliance on ego.(Just For Today Pg.289)

Sensitive: 1. Having acute mental or emotional sensibility 2. Able to feel or perceive

Separately: 1. Apart from others

Serenity: 1. A disposition free from stress or emotion 2. The absence of mental stress or anxiety. 3.Comes only from working the steps. (Just For Today Pg.113)

Serve: 1. Serve a purpose, role, or function 2. Do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function 3. Contribute or conduce to 4. Be used by; as of a utility 5. Help to some food; help with food or drink 6. Provide food 7. Be in the service of, be a servant of, as of people, institutions, or ideas 8. Promote 9. Spend time in prison or in a labor camp 10. To act as an attendant to 11. Serve somebody with a warrant or summons 12. Mate with

Service work: 1. Carrying the message to the addict who still suffers.

Service: 1. Work done by one person or group that benefits another 2. A company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation 3. The act of public worship following prescribed rules 4. An act of help or assistance 5. Employment in work for another 6. A force that is a branch of the armed forces 7. The performance of duties by a waiter or servant 8. Periodic maintenance on a car or machine 9. A complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table 10. The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone 11. A means of serving 12. The act of mating by male animals 13. the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him Mentally healthy; free from mental disorder 14. Is for those we serve. (It Works How & Why Pg.143) 15. Is the ability to reach other addicts, offer identification and welcome, greet the addict walking in the door for the first time, and help ensure that newcomers return again and again. (It Works How & Why Pg. 143) 16.Is a learning experience that allows us personal growth.(It Works How & Why Pg.143)

Setback: 1. Where a wall or building narrows abruptly 2. An unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

Shame: 1. A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt 2. A state of dishonor 3. An unfortunate development

Share: 1. Any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor 2. Have, give, or receive 3. Communicate

Sharing: 1. Using or enjoying something jointly with others 2. Sharing thoughts and feelings 3. A distribution in shares 4. Use jointly or in common 5. Sharing equally with another or others 6. Unselfishly willing to share with others

Shortcoming: 1. A failing or deficiency

Should: 1. Be expected to 2. Expresses an emotional, practical, or other reason for doing something 3. Be logically necessary

Shy: 1. Start suddenly, as from fight 2. Lacking self-confidence 3. Easily startled or frightened 4. Wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things 5. Wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things

Similar: 1. Marked by correspondence or resemblance 2. Having the same or similar characteristics 3. Resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination 4. expressing closely related meanings 5. Capable of replacing or changing places with something else

Simplicity: 1. The quality of being simple or uncompounded 2. A lack of penetration or subtlety 3. Absence of affectation or pretense 4. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort 5. Lack of ornamentation

Sincerely:1. With sincerity; without pretense 2. Written formula for ending a letter

Slavery: 1. The state of being under the control of another person 2. Work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

Social Addict:

Society: 1. An extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization 2. A formal association of people with similar interests 3. The state of being with someone 4. The fashionable elite

Solidarity: 1. A union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group

Solution: 1. A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

Some situation or event that is thought about

Sought: 1. Try to get or reach 2. Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of 3. Make an effort or attempt 4. Go to or towards 5. Inquire for 6. That is looked for 7. Being searched for

Source: 1. The place where something begins, where it springs into being 2. Anything that provides inspiration for later work 3. A facility where something is available 4. A person who supplies information 5. A person who supplies information

Spirit: 1. A fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character 2. The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

Spiritual: 1. Concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

Spoils: 1. The act of stripping and taking by force 2. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin 3. Become unfit for consumption or use 4. Alter from the original 5. Treat with excessive indulgence 6. To hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of 7. Make imperfect

Sponsor: 1. Someone who supports or champions something 2. Assume responsibility for or leadership of 3. A recovering addict in the program of Narcotics Anonymous (Sponsorship IP No.11) 4. Someone we can trust to share our life experiences with {both bad and good}; a person to whom we can go with our problems that may be too personal to share with the group (Sponsorship IP No.11) 5. Primarily, a sponsor is a guide through the twelve steps of recovery (Sponsorship IP No.11) 6. Someone we respect, someone we identify with, someone we have reason to trust. (Just For Today Pg.88) 7. Is there for us when we need a push in the right direction. (Just For Today Pg.201)

Sponsorship: 1. The heart of the NA way of recovery from addiction- one addict helping another (Sponsorship IP No.11) 2. A vital part of the NA program of recovery. It is one of the main channels through which newcomers can take advantage of the experience of NA members who are living the program. (Staying Clean on the Outside IP No.23)

Spontaneous: 1. Happening or arising without apparent external cause 2. Said or done without having been planned or written in advance 3. Produced without being planted or without human labor

Sprouts: 1. Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud 2. A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) 3. Produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants 4. Grow sprouts, of a plant

Stability: 1. The quality or attribute of being stable 2. A stable order 3. The quality of being free from change or variation

Stable: 1. A building for housing horses or other livestock 2. Shelter in a stable 3. Resistant to change of position or condition 4. Firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation 5. Not taking part readily in chemical change 6. Maintaining equilibrium 7. Showing little if any change

Stagnate: 1. Spent time in idleness

Standard: 1. A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated 2. The ideal in terms of which something can be judged 3. The value behind the money in a monetary system 4. Conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind 5 Commonly used or supplied

Steadfast: 1. Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable 2. Firm and dependable especially in loyalty

Steadfastly: 1. With resolute determination

Steadfastness: 1. Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty 2. Steadfast resolution 3. Mean we need to keep on trying to do our best (Step Working Guides Pg.123)

Steps: 1. Our path to a relationship with a God of our understanding. (Just For Today Pg.10)

Strength: 1. The property of being physically or mentally strong 2. Capability in terms of personnel and materiel 3. An asset of special worth or utility 4. Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force

Strengthen: 1. Make strong or stronger 2. Gain strength 3. Give a healthy elasticity to

Structure: 1. A thing constructed; a complex construction or entity 2. The manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts 3. The complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations 4. A particular complex anatomical structure 5. The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships 6. Give a structure to

Subconscious: 1. Psychic activity just below the level of awareness 2. Just below the level of consciousness

Subsequent: 1. Following in time or order

Substantial: 1. Fairly large 2. Being the essence or essential element of a thing 3. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary 4. Providing abundant nourishment 5. Of good quality and condition; solidly built

Substantially: 1. To a great extent or degree 2. In a strong substantial way

Substitution: 1. An event in which one thing is substituted for another 2. The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another

Succession: 1. A following of one thing after another in time 2. A group of people or things arranged or following in order 3. The action of following in order

Suffer: 1. Be subjected to 2. Of injuries and illnesses 3. Endure emotional pain 4. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant 5. Feel pain or be in pain 6. Be very uncomfortable

Suffering: 1. A state of acute pain 2. Misery resulting from affliction 3. Psychological suffering 4. Feelings of mental or physical pain 5. Troubled by pain or loss 6. Very unhappy; full of misery

Sufficient: 1. Of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant

Suggest: 1. Make a proposal, declare a plan for something 2. Drop a hint; intimate by a hint 3. Imply as a possibility 4. Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine 5. Call to mind or evoke

Suicide: 1. Killing yourself 2. A person who kills himself intentionally

Superficial: 1. Being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually 2. Relating to a surface 3. Of little substance or significance 4. Involving a surface only

Superior: 1. One of greater rank or station or quality 2. The head of a religious community 3. A combatant who is able to defeat rivals 4. Of high or superior quality or performance 5 Having a higher rank

Support: 1. Something providing immaterial support or assistance to a person or cause or interest 2. Something that holds up or provides a foundation 3. Strengthen or make more firm as by corroboration

Suppress: 1. To put down by force or authority 2. Come down on 3. Control and refrain from showing; of emotions 4. Put out of one's consciousness; in psychiatry

Surrender: 1. Acceptance of despair 2. A verbal act of admitting defeat 3. A heartfelt belief in our own fallibility as human beings and an equally heartfelt decision to rely on a Power greater then our own (It Works How & Why Pg.107) 4. Not having to fight anymore (Basic Text Pg.22) 5. Is what happens after we’ve accepted the first step as something that is true for us and have accepted that recovery is the solution. (Step Working Guides Pg. 6) 6. To give up absolutely. To quit with no reservations. To put up our hands and quit fighting. Maybe to put up our hands at our first meeting and admit we’re addicts. (Just For Today Pg.13)

Survive: 1. Continue to live, endure or last 2. Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) 3. Stay alive; survive 4. Live longer than

Survivor: 1. One who lives through affliction 2. One who outlives another 3. An animal that survives in spite of adversity

Sustain: 1. Lengthen or extend in duration or space 2. Of injuries and illnesses 3. Provide with nourishment 4. Supply with sustenance 5. Be the support of 6. Admit as valid 7. Strengthen or make more firm as by corroboration

Symptoms: 1. any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 2. Anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

Systematically: 1. Characterized by order and planning 2. Not haphazard