My initial impression glancing at that list was that it was maybe taken from a survey of French speakers, because the first few words looked totally alien to me

My initial impression glancing at that list was that it was maybe taken from a survey of French speakers, because the first few words looked totally alien to me. Then I recognized freesia, then a few more words coalesced. All told, I'm more or less familiar with only 5-7 of the "female" words but every single one of the "male" words are very familiar to me.