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sagging     drooping, sinking or settling

sallow     grayish, greenish yellow colour

sanctimoniously     hypocritically devout

scarlet    

scathingly     assailing with withering deunuciation

scavenging     salvaging from discared material

scruffiness     unkempt, slovenly

scrupulous     having moral integrity

scummy     low, vile or worthless person

scrutinising     examining carefully

sepulchral     mortuary

shabby     threadbare clothes faded from wear     

sheaf     a quantity of paper

sherbet

shrewd     marked by clever discerning awareness

sickle

siesta     an afternoon nap

siphoning

skiving     cutting off in thin layers

slinking     moving stealthily or furtively

slob    a messy, sloppy person

slumming     going somewhere that is below your station in life

Slytherin

Snape      Severus Snape is a Potions Master with greasy black hair, hooked nose

                 and sallow skin

snarl     surly, angry growl

snide     slyly disparaging

snigger     snicker

snivel     to speak in a whining, sniffling, tearful or weakly emotional manner

sorcery     use of power gained from control of evil spirits

sordid     dirty, filthy, wretched, squalid

spew     vomit

sporadic     occurring occasionally, singly or in scattered instances

Squib

squint     peer with eyes partly closed

starkers    totally naked

statute   a law pased in Parliament

stifling     repressing our anger

stow     to put away for future use

striding     taking long steps

stumbled    tripped and almost fell

Stunners

stupendous     causing astonishment or wonder

supercilious     coolly and patronizingly haughty

supine     lying on the back with face upward

supple     capable of being bent or folded without creases

surge    sweeping forward like that of a wave

sweltering     to suffer, sweat or be faint from heat

swig     a quantity drunk at one time

swine     pigs or a contemptible person

swivelled    turned