UNUSUAL WORDS CIV

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

1. SELVAGE

2. GNOMON

3. BASILISK

4. INTAGLIO

5. RETICULE 

6. USUFRUCT

7. TELLURIAN

8. BENIGHTED

9. FUGATIOUS

10 WARP - WEFT

11. BOUSTROPHEDON

12. KLEPTOPARASITISM  

     

 

Answers:

 

1. WARP - The vertical threads on a loom in the weaving of cloth

 

2. WEFT (or WOOF) - The horizontal threads on the loom 

 

1. SELVAGE - The edge of a piece of fabric that keeps it from unraveling or fraying

 

2. GNOMON - Pointer on a sundial that casts the shadow

 

3. BASILISK - A type of lizard, known for being able to "walk on water" to escape predators    

 

4. INTAGLIO - A printmaking process in which an image is engraved into a surface or plate

 

5. RETICULE - A woman's small handbag decorated with embroidery or beading

 

6. USUFRUCT - The right to use and benefit from a property while the ownership of the property belongs to another person

7. TELLUREAN - An Earthling

8. BENIGHTED - Intellectually or morally ignorant / Uneducated - often due to lack of opportunity

9. FUGATIOUS - Fleeting, ephemeral, lasting only a short time

 

10. WARP - The vertical threads  on a loom in the weaving of cloth

      WEFT - (or WOOF) - The horizontal threads on the loom

11. BOUSTROPHEDON - Written from right to left and from left to right in alternate lines

12. KLEPTOPARASITISM - Form of feeding in which one animal steals food from another - including those of its own species -as gulls. Lions and hyenas are well-known klepto parasites