UNUSUAL WORDS CI

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

1. REDUX

2. NUBILE

3. IMMURE

4. DHARNA

5. NOISOME

6. PARIETAL

7. CULOTTES

8. GRIMALKIN

9. SCRIMSHAW

10. SCHNORRER

11. CROMULENT

12. SALUBRIOUS

 

Answers: 

1. REDUX - Brought back, revived

 

2. NUBILE - (of a young woman) mature enough for marriage

3. IMMURE - Confine against one's will, imprison

 

4. DHARNA - In India, a mode of compelling payment or compliance by sitting at the debtor's or offender's door without eating until the demand is complied with - or the collector starves to death 

5. NOISOME - Having an extremely offensive smell

6. PARIETAL - (in addition to its anatomical meaning) Relating to residence in a college or university dormitory, and especially to visits from members of the opposite sex

7. CULOTTES - Women's knee or calf-length pants cut full to resemble a skirt

8. GRIMALKIN - A cat, especially an old, female cat, contemptuously applied to a spiteful old woman

9. SCRIMSHAW - Intricate carvings and designs on bone or ivory, traditionally done by whalers on whale bones or teeth or walrus tusks

10. SCHNORRER -  Yiddish - A beggar or sponger - sometimes applied to professional fund raisers

11. CROMULENT - Acceptable, satisfactory (used jokingly)

12. SALUBRIOUS - Healthful, beneficial