- QUAGMIRE (Noun)
Meaning: a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape.
Synonyms: bind, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse,
Antonyms: advantage, solution, agreement,
Usage: Many young people do not realize the quagmire to which occasional drug use can lead. - MYSTIQUE (Noun)
Meaning: a quality of mystery, glamour, or power associated with someone or something.
Synonyms: charisma, mystery, fascination, aura.
Antonyms: plainness, limpidity, perspicuity, lucidity.
Usage: Since the book was banned from the library, it has acquired a certain mystique that has made it quite popular. - LOCUS (Noun)
Meaning: a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated
Synonyms: arrangement, condition, circumstances
Antonyms: boon, disarrangement
Usage: The locus of decision-making is sometimes far from the government’s offices. - VITIATE (Verb)
Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.
Synonyms: annihilate, negate, quash, abate
Antonyms: allow, help, permit, affirm
Usage: The contract was vitiated because one person signed under compulsion. - PROWESS (Noun)
Meaning: skill or expertise in a particular activity or field.
Synonyms: skill, expertise, ability, ability
Antonyms: inability, ineptitude
Usage: The young girl hangs her paintings on the wall to display her prowess in art. - TRAILBLAZING (Adjective)
Meaning: introducing new ideas or methods; innovative or pioneering.
Synonym: innovative, radical
Antonym: conservative
Sentence: I admire the tenacity of women that are trailblazing in male-dominated fields. - HARPING (Verb)
Meaning: talk or write persistently and tediously on (a particular topic).
Synonym: dwell, reiterate, repeat
Antonym: forbid, fearfulness
Sentence: Don’t keep harping on about my age! - BLATANT (Adjective)
Meaning: (of bad behavior) done openly and unashamedly.
Synonym: flagrant, glaring
Antonym: inconspicuous, subtle
Sentence: His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance. - CLAMPDOWN
Meaning: a concerted or harsh attempt to suppress something.
Synonyms: suppression, prevention, crackdown,
Antonyms: freedom, advantage, liberty, arousal
Usage: The government intends to clamp down on drug smuggling. - BLOCKADE (Noun)
Meaning: an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
Synonyms: block, barricade, siege
Antonyms: access, opening
Usage: Traffic was held up for six hours by the motorway blockade. - IDIOMS
Keep nose to grindstone
Meaning: to describe someone’s hard work especially during study or academic projects.
Sentence: Sania was so determined to become a chartered accountant that she kept her nose to the grindstone all year.Be in a different league
Meaning: Used in a context to describe someone or something as superior, and unique.
Sentence: The newest car from Hyundai is completely in a different league.No Strings attached
Meaning: Used in a context when something is offered or given without any conditions.
Sentence: I managed to get a loan with no strings attached.
