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salmagundi n. a mixed dish consisting usually of cubed poultry or fish, chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, onions, oil, etc., often served as a salad; any mixture or miscellany..

schadenfreude n. satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune..

sententious adj. abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims; given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous..

sinuous adj. having many curves; indirect; devious; characterized by a series of graceful curving motions..

soporific adj. causing or tending to cause sleep; tending to dull awareness or alertness..

spoony adj., Informal. foolishly or sentimentally amorous; foolish; silly..

supercilious adj. haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression..

surly adj. churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter; unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable; dark or dismal; menacing; threatening..

sylvan adj. of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the woods; consisting of or abounding in woods or trees; wooded; woody..

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