UNUSUAL WORDS CXXV

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

1. SATRAP

2. FECUND

3. GAINSAY

4. PARLANCE

5. EFFLUVIAL 

6. DRAVIDIAN 

7. ECHYMOSIS 

8. CHANGELING

9. AILUROPHIOLE

10. CIRCADIAN DYSRHYTHMIA 

 

Answers:

 

1. SATRAP - A subordinate or local ruler

 

2. FECUND - Fertile, productive

 

3. GAINSAY - Deny, contradict

 

4. PARLANCE - Jargon, language specific to a certain group

 

5. EFFLUVIAL - Foul-smelling, noxious - as a vapor rising from decaying matter

 

6. DRAVIDIAN - Of a family of languages spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka

 

7. ECHYMOSIS - Discoloration caused by blood, a black and blue mark

 

8. CHANGELING - A child secretly exchanged for another in infancy

 

9. AILUROPHILE -  A cat lover

 

10. CIRCADIAN DYSRHYTHMIA -  Jet lag