1. DEVOURING (NOUN/ADJ): extremely strong and usually causes damage.
Synonyms: draining, depleting
Antonyms: conserving, preserving
Example Sentence:
2. CONSORTIUM (NOUN): organization or banks joined together as a group
Synonyms: company, conference
Antonyms: disunion, separation
Example Sentence:
A consortium of banks is led by State Bank Of India.
3.INSISTENCE (NOUN): demand, command
Synonyms: dictate, instruction
Antonyms: challenge, dispute
Example Sentence:
At his insistence she continued living with her mother.
4. CONTINGENT (NOUN/ADJ.): subject to chance, accidental, unforeseen
Synonyms: delegacy, delegation
Antonyms: predictable, expected
Example Sentence:
Our success is contingent upon your support.
5. MORATORIUM (ADJ.): a temporary prohibition of an activity, embargo.
Synonyms: abeyance, dormancy
Antonyms: renewal, resumption
Example Sentence:
They are proposing a five year moratorium on nuclear weapon testing.
6. DITHER (NOUN/VERB): be indecisive, hesitate, state of agitation.
Synonyms: fluster, lather
Antonyms: calm, composure
Example Sentence:
I can’t bear people who dither.
7. GRIM (ADJECTIVE): Very serious, gloomy
Synonyms: stern, forbidding
Antonyms: amiable, pleasant
Example sentence:
The situation in the drought stricken region is grim.
8.RETROACTIVELY (ADVERB): with effect from a date before it was approved
Synonyms: previous, prior
Antonyms: present, future
Example Sentence:
The new rates will apply retroactively from January 1.
9. CIPHER (NOUN): Nonexistence
Synonyms: nonentity, nobody
Antonyms: entity, somebody
Example Sentence:
He is worried of his cipher.
10. HUNCH (NOUN): a humped position or thing, instinct;
Synonyms: intuition, premonition
Antonyms: certainty, fact
Example Sentence:
The commentators had various hunches about the outcome of the next election.
