UNUSUAL WORDS XCIX

Can you give a simple definition of these less-frequently-used words?

1. SABOT

2. ABAYA

3. NURDLE

4. GAMINE

5. LAMBENT

6. NOVATION 

7. TIMOROUS

8. PLANGENT

9. SONOROUS

10. ESPADRILLE

11. HOMUNCULUS

12. SESQUIPEDALIAN

 

Answers:

 

1. SABOT - A heavy wooden shoe, clog

 

2. ABAYA - A full length outer garment worn by some Moslem women

 

3. NURDLE - A very small plastic pellet used in the manufacture of plastic products; the strip of toothpaste on your toothbrush as seen in toothpaste ads

 

4. GAMINE - A young, boyish but elegant woman who is described as mischievous or teasing - but in an attractive, feminine way

 

5. LAMBENT - (of light) Softly bright, radiant, flickering - moving lightly over a service

 

6. NOVATION - The substitution of a new contract for an old one, as in real estate

 

7. TIMOROUS - Shy, fearful

 

8. PLANGENT - (of a sound) Loud, reverberating, and often melancholy

 

9. SONOROUS - (of a voice or other sound) Resonant, rich, imposingly deep and full

 

10. ESPADRILLE - A casual, slip-on shoe with a canvass or cotton fabric upper and a flexible, rope sole

 

11. HOMUNCULUS - In folklore, a tiny (microscopic) but fully formed human being, sometimes thought to inhabit an egg or sperm cell. Used incorrectly in slang to refer to a dwarf. 

 

12. SESQUIPEDALIAN - Characterized by the use of long, multi-syllabic words - long-winded; it comes from the Latin meaning "a foot and a half long"