Vocabulary Challenge: Uncommon Words and Their Meanings

Salmagundi a dish of mixed ingredients; a varied mixture sanative having healing or curative properties sanctimony pretentious or hypocritical righteousness saturnine gloomy or morose in temperament scherzo a lively and playful musical composition schlockmeister a producer of cheap and low-quality goods sclerotic hardened or thickened scotopia ability to see in dim light scrimshander person who carves designs on ivory or whalebone secretion substance produced by a gland or cell sedulous diligent and persistent selenography study of the moon's surface sesterce an ancient Roman coin

Salmagundi a dish of mixed ingredients; a varied mixture sanative having healing or curative properties sanctimony pretentious or hypocritical righteousness saturnine gloomy or morose in temperament scherzo a lively and playful musical composition schlockmeister a producer of cheap and low-quality goods sclerotic hardened or thickened scotopia ability to see in dim light scrimshander person who carves designs on ivory or whalebone secretion substance produced by a gland or cell sedulous diligent and persistent selenography study of the moon's surface sesterce an ancient Roman coin siege a military operation in which a place is surrounded and cut off to force surrender

Salmagundi a dish of mixed ingredients; a varied mixture sanative having healing or curative properties sanctimony pretentious or hypocritical righteousness saturnine gloomy or morose in temperament scherzo a lively and playful musical composition schlockmeister a producer of cheap and low-quality goods sclerotic hardened or thickened scotopia ability to see in dim light scrimshander person who carves designs on ivory or whalebone secretion substance produced by a gland or cell sedulous diligent and persistent selenography study of the moon's surface sesterce an ancient Roman coin siege a military operation in which a place is surrounded and cut off to force surrender simplism the tendency to oversimplify complex issues

Salmagundi a dish of mixed ingredients; a varied mixture sanative having healing or curative properties sanctimony pretentious or hypocritical righteousness saturnine gloomy or morose in temperament scherzo a lively and playful musical composition schlockmeister a producer of cheap and low-quality goods sclerotic hardened or thickened scotopia ability to see in dim light scrimshander person who carves designs on ivory or whalebone secretion substance produced by a gland or cell sedulous diligent and persistent selenography study of the moon's surface sesterce an ancient Roman coin siege a military operation in which a place is surrounded and cut off to force surrender simplism the tendency to oversimplify complex issues sinfonietta a small symphony orchestra or a short symphony

Salmagundi a dish of mixed ingredients; a varied mixture sanative having healing or curative properties sanctimony pretentious or hypocritical righteousness saturnine gloomy or morose in temperament scherzo a lively and playful musical composition schlockmeister a producer of cheap and low-quality goods sclerotic hardened or thickened scotopia ability to see in dim light scrimshander person who carves designs on ivory or whalebone secretion substance produced by a gland or cell sedulous diligent and persistent selenography study of the moon's surface sesterce an ancient Roman coin siege a military operation in which a place is surrounded and cut off to force surrender simplism the tendency to oversimplify complex issues sinfonietta a small symphony orchestra or a short symphony sinistral left-handed or counterclockwise sitar a stringed musical instrument from India