UNUSUAL WORDS CXX

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

1. COHO

2. TAUPE

3. OMERTA

4. GANGUE (gang)

5 CHIMERA 

6. SORGHUM

7. DEMONYM

8. FAROUCHE 

9. NUMINOUS 

10. CHIROMANCY 

 

Answers:

 

1. COHO - Small, north Pacific salmon

 

2. TAUPE - Dark gray-brown color

 

3. OMERTA - Mafia code of silence

 

4. GANGUE - Valueless material in a vein of ore

 

5. CHIMERA - An illusion - something hoped or wished for, but impossible to achieve 

 

6. SORGHUM - An edible cereal grain but mostly used for animal feed

 

7. DEMONYM - A word used to describe the native inhabitants of a place

 

8. FAROUCHE -  (auto antonym) Shy, sullen, awkward or wild, fierce

 

9. NUMINOUS - (from NUMEN) - Having a strong religious or spiritual quality 

 

10. CHIROMANCY - Palm reading,  as in fortune-telling