1.Ascetic (adjective)
- Meaning: someone who avoids pleasure and comforts
- Synonym: austere, abstinent
- Antonym: sybaritic
- Usage: He decided to renounce wealth and lead an ascetic life.
2.Backlog (noun)
- Meaning: accumulation of uncompleted works
- Synonym: pile, heap
- Antonym: lessening
- Usage: The students are asked to clear the backlogs before their promotion.
3.Biennial (adjective)
- Meaning: happening twice a year
- Synonym: semiannual
- Antonym: perennial
- Usage: This art exhibition is a biennial exhibition.
4.Cabal (noun)
- Meaning: groups that make secret political actions
- Synonym: clique, coterie
- Antonym: conformists
- Usage: The rebellion is started by the cabal of non-conformists.
5.Counterfeit (adjective)
- Meaning: make an exact imitation with an intention to deceive
- Synonym: forgery, feigned
- Antonym: original
- Usage: The tapes are the counterfeit of the seminal works of the author.
6.Debacle (noun)
- Meaning: a sudden complete failure
- Synonym: fiasco, catastrophe
- Antonym: success
- Usage: This sudden debacle in the social life has led to monotony.
7.Foible (noun)
- Meaning: a peculiar habit/ weakness in someone’s character
- Synonym: shortcoming, flaw
- Antonym: strength
- Usage: They got habituated of his little foibles.
8.Holocaust (noun)
- Meaning: destruction or loss of many lives
- Synonym: cataclysm, devastation
- Antonym: serenity
- Usage: The greatest nuclear holocaust in history reads the incident of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
9.Implacable (adjective)
- Meaning: impossible to satisfy
- Synonym: unappeasable
- Antonym: appeasable
- Usage: The enemies had an implacable demand from them.
10.Malady (noun)
- Meaning: something that is wrong with a system
- Synonym: disorder, ailment
- Antonym: bloom, order
- Usage: The poverty is yet the nation’s malady.
