1. ANALYTICAL (ADJECTIVE): Logical
- Synonyms: Rational, Level Headed
- Antonyms: Careless, Thoughtless
- Usage: Mathur’s approach is very analytical.
2. CRIMP (VERB): Fold
- Synonyms: Crinkle, Wrinkle
- Antonyms: Smooth, Straighten
- Usage: Don’t crimp the pages of my notebook.
3. DIRE (ADJECTIVE): Terrible
- Synonyms: Dreadful, Awful
- Antonyms: Good, Mild
- Usage: The situation of drought has become dire.
4. SURGE (NOUN): Growth
- Synonyms: Deluge, Upsurge
- Antonyms: decline, decrease
- Usage: Sudden surge was seen in dollar in the stock exchange.
5. NEFARIOUS (ADJECTIVE): Very Evil And Wicked
- Synonyms: Sinful, Vicious
- Antonyms: Kind, Pleasing
- Usage: To call that new students names, was not only mean, but nefarious.
6. PLEBEIAN (NOUN): Not worthy of the upper classes.
- Synonyms: Mediocre, Ordinary
- Antonyms: Extraordinary, Aristocratic
- Usage: My spoiled cousins called the restaurant a plebeian place.
7. WHIM (NOUN): sudden idea
- Synonyms: inclination, vagary
- Antonyms: truth, reality
- Usage: His instinct paid off as he picked the winning horse on a whim.
8. PROGNOSIS (NOUN): forecast
- Synonyms: diagnosis, prediction
- Antonyms: calculation, measurement
- Usage: Due to the company’s financial prognosis, we will probably be out of business in less than one month.
9. ENGENDER (VERB): induce
- Synonyms: generate, breed
- Antonyms: prevent, halt
- Usage: Some people believe violent video games engender feelings of hostility in young people.
10. STAID (ADJECTIVE): decorous
- Synonyms: dignified, composed
- Antonyms: indecorous, frivolous
- Usage: She was given a staid title-‘The Iron Lady’.
