1. Detention (Noun)
- Definition: The action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody.
- Synonyms: Custody, Imprisonment, Confinement, Incarceration
- Antonyms: Emancipation, Freedom, Liberation
- Usage: The spat goes back to the detention on December 1 of a top Chinese telecom executive in Vancouver.
2. Retribution (Noun)
- Definition: The act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.
- Synonyms: Payback, Reprisal, Requital, Retaliation
- Antonyms: Clemency, Grace, Leniency, Lenity
- Usage: some injustices ned immediate retribution. .
3. Lenient (Adjective)
- Definition: (of a punishment or person in authority) more merciful or tolerant than expected.
- Synonyms: Merciful, Clement, Sparing, Forgiving
- Antonyms: Merciless, Severe, Strict
- Usage: A Chinese court last week ruled as too lenient the 15-year sentence against a Canadian convicted of drug-related offenses.
4. Dispel (Verb)
- Definition: Make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear.
- Synonyms: Banish, Eliminate, Dismiss
- Antonyms: Engender
- Usage: only knowledge can dispel darkness from the society.
5. Stealth (Noun)
- Definition: Cautious and surreptitious action or movement.
- Synonyms: Furtiveness, Secretiveness, Secrecy, Surreptitiousness
- Antonyms: Openness
- Usage: In facilitating the entry of two women, albeit in stealth and under the cover of darkness.
6. Blockade (Noun)
- Definition: An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
- Synonyms: Siege, Beleaguerment, Encirclement
- Antonyms: Reopen, Unblock, Unbolt
- Usage: The Kerala government has displayed some resolve in breaking the illegal blockade imposed by some devotees.
7. Upsurge (Noun)
- Definition: An upward surge in the strength or quantity of something; an increase
- Synonyms: Boom, Improvement,
- Antonyms: decrease, drop
- Usage: Under some pressure to demonstrate that it had not gone soft as a result of the upsurge of protests against the Supreme Court’s order.
8. Orchestrate (Verb)
- Definition: to plan something but under secrecy/Arrange or score (music) for orchestral performance.
- Synonyms: design, plot
- Antonyms: natural, unplanned
- Usage: the quarrel at the party was orchestrated to damage his reputation.
9. Desecration (Noun)
- Definition: the act of violating the sanctity of something
- Synonyms: Violation, Profanation, Sacrilege
- Antonyms: Veneration, Sanctification
- Usage: The decision of the temple authorities to close the sanctum sanctorum and perform purification rituals has invoked old and regressive notions of purity and pollution, of defilement and desecration.
10.Gush (Noun)
- Definition: A flowing or going out
- Synonyms: Exodus, Outflow, Outpour, Outpouring
- Antonyms: Flux, Inflow, Influx, Inrush
- Usage: The dam burst with a stupendous gush of water
