UNUSUAL WORDS XCIII

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

1. MACHINATE 

2. DELIQUESCE

3. STENTORIAN

4. PROPINQUITY

5. FLETCHERIZE

6. SENTENTIOUS

7. ANADROMOUS

8. CATADROMOUS

9. IRREFRAGABLE

10. PANDICULATION

11. TERPSICHOREAN

 

Answers:

 

1. MACHINATE - Plot, scheme to do harm

 

2. DELIQUESCE - Dissolve or melt away, go soft with age or maturity

 

3. STENTORIAN - Having a loud and powerful voice

 

4. PROPINQUITY - Nearness, closeness

 

5. FLETCHERIZE - To chew food slowly and thoroughly, consider deliberately, think through

 

6. SENTENTIOUS - Pompous, moralistic, full of trite adages

 

7. ANADROMOUS - Of ocean fish that migrate to fresh water to spawn

 

8. CATADROMOUS - Of fresh-water fish that migrate to the ocean to spawn 

 

9. IRREFRAGABLE - Indisputable, unable to be refuted or disproved

 

10. TERPSICHOREAN - A dancer, related to dancing