- ENTERPRISE (Noun)
Meaning: a project or undertaking, especially a bold or complex one.
Synonyms: business, undertaking, venture, initiative.
Antonyms: idleness, lethargy, laziness, inactivity.
Usage: Building the mansion in six months is going to be quite an enterprise for our small construction team. - COLLATERAL (Noun)
Meaning: something taken as a guarantee for a debt.
Synonyms: security, deposit, warranty, subordinate.
Antonyms: primary, chief, principal.
Usage: When Sameer was arrested, his mother used her home as collateral for his bail. - SACROSANCT (Adjective)
Meaning: too important or respected to be criticized or changed.
Synonyms: sacred, divine, holy, inviolable.
Antonyms: nonreligious, irreligious, profane.
Usage: The award-winning filmmaker felt his movies were too sacrosanct to be criticized by the media. - PAUCITY (Noun)
Meaning: the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
Synonyms: scarcity, shortage, deficiency, inadequacy
Antonyms: plethora, abundance, opulence, plenty
Usage: There is a paucity of information on the ingredients of many cosmetics. - ENTRENCHED (Adjective)
Meaning: to establish an attitude, habit, or belief so strongly that it is not likely to change.
Synonyms: fixed, inflexible, instilled.
Antonyms: vulnerable, adjustable, unestablished.
Usage: Will you continue to entrench yourself in work or enjoy your weekend off? - PURLOIN (Verb)
Meaning: steal (something).
Synonyms: loot, pilfer, steal, embezzle.
Antonyms: bestow, contribute, donate, purchase.
Example: Neha was shocked when her best friend tried to purloin her favorite necklace. - INCONCEIVABLE (Adjective)
Meaning: not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable.
Synonyms: implausible, incredible, incogitable.
Antonyms: plausible, reasonable, tenable,
Example: It is inconceivable that the young boy walked twenty miles without shoes in freezing weather. - DISENFRANCHISE (Verb)
Meaning: deprive of the right to vote.
Synonym: oppress, shackle, coerce.
Antonym: liberate, release, permit.
Usage: In the early days, only white landowners were allowed rights, all others were disenfranchised at the polls. - PREPONDERANCE (Noun)
Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance.
Synonym: prevalence, predominance, dominance
Antonym: couple, few, handful, smattering, sprinkling
Sentence: With such a preponderance of evidence, the jury will most likely find the defendant guilty. - VANTAGE (Noun)
Meaning: a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view.
Synonyms: advantage, edge, high ground, upper hand.
Antonyms: disadvantage, drawback, liability, penalty.
Usage: From the second floor vantage, I could watch the show with ease. - IDIOMS
“Be glad to see the back of”
Meaning: Be glad to see someone leave.
Example: I never liked her. I’ll be glad to see the back of her.“Beat around the bush”
Meaning: Avoid answering a question; not speaking directly about the issue.
Example: Tell me what the problem is, stop beating around the bush.“Best of both the worlds”
Meaning: Situation wherein one can enjoy two different opportunities.
Example: She had the privilege of a professor and freedom of a student. She had the best of both worlds.
