seduce Over the past three months, Microsoft programmers have released a stream of new products designed to seduce Net users away from Netscape.

shatter The Nintendo 64 shatters the convention of two-dimensional horizontal scrolling video games.

shell They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where Canadians (peacekeepers) were posted.

shun In an era in which management gurus strive to push decision making down the chain, Email has made it easier for middle managers to shun responsibility by bucking decisions up the ladder.

shuttle For three years, the West has sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Bosnia while sending in U.N. Peacekeepers to shuttle around a war zone and provide humanitarian aid.

snap During rehearsals, Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson snap at each other.

snap up They (moviegoers) snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film (Gump) was based.

spell It has become commonplace, in this digital era, that electric communication will spell doom for authoritarian regimes.

spur PC sales are likely to pick up too, spurring demand for Asian-made components like disk drivers and monitors.

strand The role is oddly similar to Schwarzenegger's persona in Last Action Hero: someone who plays a superman at work but in the real world is stranded without a script.