UNUSUAL WORDS XCV

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

1. WADI

2. TOUT

3. STELE

4. SHANK

5. LINTEL

6. JUNKET

7. RENNET

8. SERRIED

9. GRAUPEL

10. PUTATIVE

11. ABATTOIR

12. OBDURATE

13. DISSILIENT

14. PECKSNIFFIAN

15. COMPENDIOUS

 

Answers: 

 

1. WADI - A valley or ravine, usually dry

 

2. TOUT - Try to sell something aggressively, one who offers (to offer) horse racing tips

3. STELE - Stone or wooden slab erected as a marker, monument, gravestone, etc.

4. SHANK - Leg from knee to ankle, long part of a tool from the handle to the operational end,

a make-shift knife, to stab with a shank, in golf - to hit the ball with the shank of the club - causing it veer sharply 

5. LINTEL - Horizontal support beam of wood, stone, steel, etc. across the top of a door or window

6. JUNKET - An extravagant trip of questionable value by a government official at public expense, a milk-based dessert with a jelly texture made with sweetened milk and rennet and served cold

7. RENNET - Curdled milk from the stomach of an unweaned calf containing rennin and used in making cheese

8. SERRIED - Close together - as rows of people or things

9. GRAUPEL - Granular, soft snow pellets - similar to hail, but not frozen

 

10. PUTATIVE - Commonly accepted or supposed

11. ABATTOIR -  A slaughterhouse

12. OBDURATE - Inflexible, persistently stubborn, unmoved by pity, persuasion, or feelings

13. DISSILIENT - Bursting open, blowing apart explosively - as certain plant seeds

14. PECKSNIFFIAN - Falsely moralistic, hypocritical, sanctimonious

15. COMPENDIOUS - Presenting the facts in a comprehensive but concise way, succinct