1.Neurosis (noun)= Mental and emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality.
- Synonyms= Aberration, dementia
- Antonyms= Lucidity, rationality
- Usage=He always projects his own neurosis onto his colleagues.
2.Denizen (noun)= A person, animal or plant that lives or is found in a particular place.
- Synonyms= Inhabitant, occupant
- Antonyms= Visitor, emigrant
- Usage= Many Hollywood denizens are businessmen who have been involved in politics for years.
3.Fetter (noun)= Confine or restrict (someone).
- Synonyms= Restrain, hinder
- Antonyms= Aid, allow
- Usage= The budget crisis is a fetter to the city’s plan for repairing the highways.
4. Hostile (adj)= Harmful or dangerous.
- Synonyms= Dangerous, violent
- Antonyms= Safe, friendly
- Usage= Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception .
5.Prattle (verb)= Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.
- Synonyms= Chatter, babble
- Antonyms= Enunciate, articulate
- Usage= We prattle about scientific discoveries, but we have made scant use of them for our benefit.
6.Treacherous (adj)= Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.
- Synonyms= Disloyal, perfidious
- Antonyms= Faithful, dedicated
- Usage= Beneath his refined manners and superficial elegance lay something treacherous.
7.Unfathomable (adj)= Incapable of being fully explored or understood.
- Synonyms= Bottomless, boundless
- Antonyms= Bounded, confined
- Usage= Under the unfathomable sea, life glows both audibly or mutely.
8.Exacerbate (verb)= Make (a problem, bad situation or negative feeling) worse.
- Synonyms= Aggravate, complicate
- Antonyms= Alleviate, mitigate
- Usage= The current cuts in public expenditure will inevitably exacerbate this situation.
9.Incidental (adj)= Happening as a minor accompaniment to something else.
- Synonyms= Secondary, subsidiary
- Antonyms= Crucial, essential
- Usage= For the field worker who deals with real problems, paperwork is incidental.
10.Blanch (verb)= Make white or pale by extracting color.
- Synonyms= Fade, whiten
- Antonyms= Color, darken
- Usage= We blanch almonds by soaking off their skins in boiling water.
