Scare-Quotes:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘scare-quotes: quotation marks placed round a word or phrase to draw attention to an unusual or arguably inaccurate use’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Scientism:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘scientism: excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and techniques, or in the applicability of the methods of physical science to other fields, esp. human behaviour and the social sciences; freq. depreciative.’ (Oxford Dictionary).

Sensuous; Sensuousness:

[Dictionary Definitions]: ‘sensuous’ (a.): Of, derived from, or affecting the senses aesthetically rather than sensually; readily affected by the senses, keenly responsive to the pleasures of sensation. Also, indicative of a sensuous temperament. Apparently first used by Mr. John Milton, to avoid certain associations of the existing word ‘sensual’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Thus: ‘sensuousness’ (n.): the quality of being sensuous; also: ‘sensuously’ (adv.): the experience of being sensuous; and: ‘sensuosity’ (n.): the capability of being sensuous).

Sentience:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sentience: the condition or quality of being sentient [a person or thing capable of perception by the senses; having the power or function of sensation]; consciousness, susceptibility to sensation’ (Oxford Dictionary).

Sequitur:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sequitur: an inference or conclusion which follows logically from the premises (cf. non sequitur). (Oxford Dictionary).

Shame:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘shame: the feeling of humiliation or distress arising from the consciousness of something dishonourable or ridiculous in one’s own or another’s behaviour or circumstances, or from a situation offensive to one’s own or another’s sense of propriety or decency’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Sicko:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sicko [= sickie]: N. Amer. slang a mentally ill or perverted person’. (Oxford Dictionary).

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Asshole:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• ‘asshole: a person you do not like; an unpleasant or stupid person’. (Cambridge Dictionary).
• ‘asshole (usually vulgar): a stupid, incompetent, or detestable person’. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
• ‘asshole: a thoroughly contemptible, detestable person’. (American Heritage® Dictionary).
• ‘asshole: insulting term of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous’. (WordNet 2.1).

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Prick:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• ‘prick: an unpleasant or despicable person’. (Macquarie Dictionary).
• ‘prick (vulgar slang): a man regarded as stupid, unpleasant, or contemptible’. (Oxford Dictionary).
• ‘prick (insulting term of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous): unpleasant person, disagreeable person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)’. (WordNet 2.1).
• ‘prick (vulgar slang): a person regarded as highly unpleasant, especially a male’. (American Heritage® Dictionary).
• ‘prick (vulgar slang): a man considered to be contemptible or mean’. (Wordsmyth Dictionary).
• ‘prick: a highly offensive term for a man regarded as inadequate or unpleasant’. (Encarta Dictionary).
• ‘prick: a spiteful or contemptible man often having some authority’. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

Single-handed(ly):

• ‘single-handedly: in a single-handed manner.
• ‘single-handed: (used or done) with one hand only. (Oxford Dictionary).

Soixante-Neuf:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘soixante-neuf: sexual activity between two people involving mutual oral stimulation of the genitals; a position enabling this’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Soliloquy:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘soliloquy: an instance of talking to oneself ...’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Sophisma:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sophisma’: [f. Latin f. Greek]: clever device, trick. (Oxford Dictionary).

Sophisticated (Antonyms):

 • ‘naïve: (antonym) sophisticated’. (MsOffice Thesaurus).

Sophisticated (Antonyms):

 • ‘simplistic: (antonym) sophisticated’. (MsOffice Thesaurus).

Sound Wave:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sound wave: a longitudinal pressure wave in an elastic medium, esp. one that propagates audible sound’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Spiel:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘spiel: talk, a story; a glib speech, esp. one intended to persuade or impress; a salesperson’s patter’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Spontaneous; Spontaneity:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘spontaneous: performed or occurring without external cause or stimulus; having a self-contained cause or origin; unpremeditated and uninhibited; coming naturally or freely, gracefully natural and unconstrained; prompted by no motive; involuntary, not due to conscious volition’. (adapted from Oxford Dictionary)

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants:

[Definition]: ‘Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) is a Western metaphor meaning ‘One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past’; a contemporary interpretation. However, the metaphor was first recorded in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. It was famously used by the seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton.’ (Wikipedia).

Stuff Up:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• ‘stuff (something) up: to do something badly, or to make a mistake; [as in] ‘I really stuffed that exam up’. (Cambridge Dictionary).
• ‘stuff up: to blunder; fail’. (Macquarie Dictionary).
• ‘stuff up: mess up; to make a mess of something’. (Encarta Dictionary).

Sublimation:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘sublimation: the transformation of an instinctual drive, esp. the sexual impulse, so that it manifests in a socially acceptable way’. (Oxford Dictionary).

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