1. CAVALIER (ADJECTIVE): Arrogant
- Synonyms: haughty, offhand
- Antonyms: humble, shy
- Example Sentence: The attack on professionalism so often found in the literature is cavalier and misguided.
2. AGHAST (ADJECTIVE): Appalled
- Synonyms: awestruck, agog
- Antonyms: unsurprised, composed
- Example Sentence: She was aghast at his question.
3. ERSTWHILE (ADJECTIVE): Former
- Synonyms: bygone, previous
- Antonyms: recent, new
- Example Sentence: There’s now a store where erstwhile lay green and pleasant pastures.
4. POMPOUS (ADJECTIVE): arrogant, egotistic
- Synonyms: boastful, selfish
- Antonyms: humble, kind
- Example Sentence: Because the movie star was pompous, she spent most of her time looking into the mirror.
5. SINISTER (ADJECTIVE): Nasty
- Synonyms: ominous, perverse
- Antonyms: auspicious, benevolent
- Example Sentence: It was a pretty sinister comment that you made so far.
6. MULISHNESS (NOUN): Doggedness
- Synonyms: obstinacy, bullheadedness
- Antonyms: irresolution, dubiety
- Example Sentence: He is buying everything by showing his heights of mulishness.
7. OSTRACIZE (VERB): banish
- Synonyms: expel, exclude
- Antonyms: accept, embrace
- Example Sentence: Nalini was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers.
8. DOMINEERING (ADJECTIVE): Bossy
- Synonyms: tyrannical, despotic
- Antonyms: yielding, submissive
- Example Sentence: She let her career overtake the relationship, and she’s become too controlling and domineering.
9. QUIXOTIC (ADJECTIVE): idealistic
- Synonyms: impractical, dreamy
- Antonyms: realistic, sensible
- Example Sentence: It was clearly a quixotic case against the defendant.
10. LEGATEE (NOUN): Owner
- Synonyms: partner, keeper
- Antonyms: leaser, renter
- Example Sentence: Varun sees himself as a legatee of his father, Sanjay Gandhi, not his great-grandfather Nehru.
