1.Largesse (noun)
- Meaning: generosity in bestowing money
- Synonym: liberality
- Antonym: meanness
- Usage: He throws his largesse to all and sundry.
2.Legerdemain (noun)
- Meaning: skillful use of one’s hands when performing conjuring tricks.
- Synonym: juggling
- Antonym: plainness
- Usage: The magic show was filled with legerdemain that kept the audience wondering how the tricks were performed.
3.Maverick (noun)
- Meaning: an unorthodox
- Synonym: individualist
- Antonym: conformist
- Usage: He was considered as something of a maverick in the publishing world.
4.Munificent (adjective)
- Meaning: generosity
- Synonym: bountiful
- Antonym: niggardly
- Usage: A former student has donated a munificent sum of money to the college.
5.Obstreperous (adjective)
- Meaning: noisy and difficult to control
- Synonym: unruly
- Antonym: calm
- Usage: The teenagers became obstreperous when their school team lost the football game.
6.Ostracism (noun)
- Meaning: exclusion from a society or group
- Synonym: exclusion
- Antonym: acceptance
- Usage: He suffered from ostracism in the new class for months.
7.Panacea (noun)
- Meaning: a solution or remedy for all difficulties
- Synonym: cure
- Antonym: injury
- Usage: Technology is not a panacea for all our problems.
8.Linchpin (noun)
- Meaning: a person or thing vital to an enterprise
- Synonym: mainstay
- Antonym: exteriority
- Usage: Controlling wages is the linchpin of the Government’s policies.
9.Abnegation (noun)
- Meaning: the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief
- Synonym: renunciation
- Antonym: acceptance
- Usage: The sticking point in faith for me was abnegation.
10.Abstruse (adjective)
- Meaning: difficult to understand
- Synonym: arcane
- Antonym: obvious
- Usage: He had discovered abstruse notions in his field.
