1. DEVOURING (NOUN/ADJ): extremely strong and usually causes damage.
- Synonyms: draining, depleting
- Antonyms: conserving, preserving
- Example Sentence: I have no discipline when it comes to the immediate devouring of burritos.
2. CONSORTIUM (NOUN): organization or banks joined together as a group
- Synonyms: company, conference
- Antonyms: disunion, separation
- Example Sentence: A consortium of banks is led by State Bank Of India.
3. INSISTENCE (NOUN): demand, command
- Synonyms: dictate, instruction
- Antonyms: challenge, dispute
- Example Sentence: At his insistence she continued living with her mother.
4. CONTINGENT (NOUN/ADJ.): subject to chance, accidental, unforeseen
- Synonyms: delegacy, delegation
- Antonyms: predictable, expected
- Example Sentence: Our success is contingent upon your support.
5. MORATORIUM (ADJ.): a temporary prohibition of an activity, embargo.
- Synonyms: abeyance, dormancy
- Antonyms: renewal, resumption
- Example Sentence: They are proposing a five year moratorium on nuclear weapon testing.
6. DITHER (NOUN/VERB): be indecisive, hesitate, state of agitation.
- Synonyms: fluster, lather
- Antonyms: calm, composure
- Example Sentence: I can’t bear people who dither.
7. GRIM (ADJECTIVE): Very serious, gloomy
- Synonyms: stern, forbidding
- Antonyms: amiable, pleasant
- Example sentence: The situation in the drought stricken region is grim.
8. RETROACTIVELY (ADVERB): with effect from a date before it was approved
- Synonyms: previous, prior
- Antonyms: present, future
- Example Sentence: The new rates will apply retroactively from January 1.
9. CIPHER (NOUN): Nonexistence
- Synonyms: nonentity, nobody
- Antonyms: entity, somebody
- Example Sentence: He is worried of his cipher.
10. HUNCH (NOUN): a humped position or thing, instinct;
- Synonyms: intuition, premonition
- Antonyms: certainty, fact
- Example Sentence: The commentators had various hunches about the outcome of the next election.
