UNUSUAL WORDS LVI

Do you know the meanings of these valid, but infrequently used words?

1. LIMN

2. VENAL

3. PROLIX

4. VENIAL

5. RANCID

6. JOCUND

7. REDACT

8. OEUVRE

9. PURLIEU

10. GAUCHE

11. STYGIAN

12. CAPTIOUS

13. GERMANE

14. FECKLESS

15. RECONDITE

16. MERCURIAL

17. SUMPTUARY

18. XENOPHOBIA

19. LEGERDEMAIN

20. VALITUDINARIAN

Answers:

 

1. LIMN - Describe

2. VENAL - Grave, as a sin

                      Susceptible to bribery

3. PROLIX - Verbose, tediously lengthy

4. VENIAL - Minor, as a sin

5. RANCID - Rotten, foul-smelling

6. JOCUND - Cheerful and light-hearted

7. REDACT - Censor, edit

8. OEUVRE - The work of an author 

                         or artist - as a whole

9. PURLIEU - The area surrounding a place

10. GAUCHE - Awkward, unsophisticated

11. STYGIAN -  Very dark, gloomy, forbidding

12. CAPTIOUS - Harping, nit-picking

13. GERMANE - Relevant

14. FECKLESS - Worthless, irresponsible

15. RECONDITE - Little known, abstruse

16. MERCURIAL - Flighty, unpredictable

17. SUMPTUARY - Of laws limiting private

                                   expenditures on "luxuries"

18. XENOPHOBIA - Fear of foreigners 

19. LEGERDEMAIN - Magic

20. VALITUDINARIAN - Hypochondriac