sable- a long, brown-furred, small carnivorous animal valued for it's dark black fur
sacrilegious- related to religion, but not enough
sacrosanct- so undeniably true that you cannot possibly take the risk that you might accidentally show it false
saute- to fry
savoir faire- socialization
scandal- a politically disapproved-of action of a politician, political or not
scare quotes- quotation marks used to denote that you totally did not just use that word.
science- that nebulous thing that defends every opinion of yours, and will be provided for any opinion that is currently unbacked
Scoville scale- scale used to measure how impressed to be when someone eats a pepper
screed- a fleshed-out statement of opinion
scrounge- to forage in a manmade environment
scowl- civilized version of a snarl
sectarianism- see divisive
sedan- a type of car that can be driven on roads, streets, boulevards, highways, freeways, parkways, turnpikes, and expressways
sedition- dissent
self-abuse (noun)- masturbation, seen as an offense with oneself as a victim because no one else could be construed as victim
self-censorship (noun)- decision by an artist to not include something
semantics- the minutia in a debate that is what it is you're arguing about
sempiternal- always lasting forever
serupticious surepticious surrepticious surreptitious- furtive
shankbone- tibia, in case you were wondering
sharia- a legal system operating based on Islam. A system soon to be implemented in America, what with the large numbers of Muslim immigrants, set to destroy the Judaism-based legal system that started after large-scale Jewish immigration in the 1910s
she— pronoun typically used for females and vehicles
sheeple (plural noun)- the majority on a factual issue you are in the minority on
Sherpa- hired guide who does the heavy lifting while you feel proud of your accomplishment and bravery. DISCLAIMER
shill- someone who defends something and thus supports it and is thus biased and is thus unfit to defend it
Shirtgate- a controversy where one guy wore a shirt covered in scantily-clad women, hundreds of feminists berated him for wearing the shirt, and millions of antifeminists berated the feminists for berating the guy
shirtwaist- garment whose only space in my mind is in relation to that fire
shock jock- an edgelord with a podcast
shoemaker- someone who makes shoes. Was that not obvious? Why did you have to look this up? You're not a bright one, are you?
shotgun- a firearm used to threaten people into giving you the passenger seat.
side-eye (noun)- an eye that sprouts out of the side of someone's head to glare at you without the interestedness implication of turning one's head
SIDS- euphemism for 'I don't know'
skeptic- one who disbelieves that which you also disbelieve
sleep- to lie motionless in a state of unconsciousness. Doctors recommend you spend about one third of your life sleeping
sluice box- a trough to feed gold to young children
slum clearance- a method of poverty reduction in which poverty is located and bombed to oblivion
slurry- a disgusting heterogeneous mixture of soft solids and liquid
smokestack- (derogatory) a chimney
smoothie- euphemism for milkshake
SMS— acronym for 'something messaging service'
snake- a slender, legless reptile that eats smaller snakes
snivel (verb)— come to think of it, I don't know what snivel means. I only know it as the adjective "sniveling", which is just a vaguely haughty insult that gives no hints as to what it means to snivel, other than that it's something bad. Whine, maybe?
snow cone- a snack food made by pouring corn syrup onto slush. Some people might try to tell you that it's a dessert, but people eat snow cones in the afternoon, not evening.
social Darwinism- the ideology that those who are likely to survive are likely to survive, and are therefore entitled to prevent others from surviving.
socialize- to parade (your pet) around.
solidarity- feel-good hivemindism.
soliloquize- to talk to oneself eloquently and grandiosely, as if someone were listening. To see it as anything but a sign of delusions of grandeur is to break the fourth wall.
solipsism- the philosophical belief that the only truly existent thing is oneself.
solvestism- the philosophical belief that the only truly existent thing is one's clothes.
sorcerer- a miracle-worker not of my religion
sparkling water- seltzer
specious- fallaciously backed-up and thus wrong, but not sounding so fallacy fallacy
spell-check (noun)-computer program that detects misspellings, last names, some first names, placenames, and obscure terms.
spendthrift- one whose spending is not thrifty
spermatophore- a capsule of sperm deposited outside the body which the female can use to impregnate herself without intercourse, as God would want, unlike those impious mammals and their blasted internal fertilization
SPF- opacity
spillover (noun)- (derogatory) transfer. "Pathogen spillover"
spoiled- privileged, in the "I'm so honored" sense and the "check your privilege" sense
spooky- scary-themed but not scary
spud— word used when you've already used "potato" and don't want to say the same word twice.
spurious- slightly fishy and outright wrong
square- one who is not there
stan- an unauthorized roadie
state (verb)- to say, but the teacher doesn't like the word 'say'
statesperson- a politician whom we refuse to denigrate with the word 'politician'
states' rights- a political standpoint protecting states from federal imposition of things you already disagreed with
static (noun)- video in which every pixel changes every frame unpredictably, not following any pattern.
status quo ante bellum- a phrase declaring that all the blood spilt in war has been in vain
Stephe- nickname for Stephen
stinging nettle (noun)- a plant known to the semiscientific natural health community as a wonder drug capable of cleansing and fortifying the body, and known to me as a $%*#ing @$&#! capable of ruining one's entire &#@%ing hike
Stockholm syndrome- (figurative) complacency. "This fictional character that you know accepts a bad thing. But have you ever thought about how it's basically Stockholm syndrome?"
stock market- a big gambling rig: if they say on the news that it's not paying out, you should be disappointed, even if you're not playing it.
Stonehenge- 93 stones in Britain
stonewall- to be cagey unto
strawman- an argument you refute in effigy
strike (noun)- a failure to strike the ball
strobe light- a bright, flickering light that induces a highlike state of mind in some people, but induces headaches in Jason
study (noun)- a mancave
sucker- a victim
sultry- sexily delirious from the oppressive heat.
sumpsimus- calling it an earthturntofacethesun instead of a sunrise
suspend- to punish a child by not making them go to school
sweet sauce- jam
swell mob- a group of white-collar blue-collar criminals
swirly- a prank where you forcibly submerge someone's head into a shallow ceramic pool of rushing water for about ten seconds
swine flu- a disease that one former sufferer I spoke to described as "annoying as hell". It has a mortality rate of about 1 in 5000, and created a panic in 2009 for killing fewer people than regular flu.
swoon- to lose consciousness romantically
sybarite- one who enjoys enjoyable things (probably gay)
synechism- a philosophical view that something has to be real. It is often seen as a reaction against the never-ending slog of 'how do you know anything?', 'maybe it's a simulation', 'but you don't know when you're dreaming', 'brain in a vat'