1. DELETERIOUS (ADJECTIVE): Harmful
- Synonyms: damaging, detrimental
- Antonyms: helpful, aiding
- Example Sentence: Alcohol is deleterious for health.
2. HARDLINE (ADJECTIVE): Uncompromising
- Synonyms: undeviating, unyielding
- Antonyms: flexible, irresolute
- Example Sentence: His values are hardline as he is very upright in nature.
3. RETRIBUTION (NOUN): Comeuppance
- Synonyms: retaliation, reckoning
- Antonyms: pardon, forgiveness
- Example Sentence: Kanika desperately needed retribution.
4. CLEMENCY (NOUN): Mercy
- Synonyms: compassion, leniency
- Antonyms: cruelty, meanness
- Example Sentence: The judge showed no clemency and sentenced him the death punishment.
5. CONSIGN (VERB): Relegate
- Synonyms: confide, deliver
- Antonyms: keep, cease
- Example Sentence: All the sellers consign their unwanted goods to the shop.
6. BIFURCATE (VERB): Divide
- Synonyms: bisect, diverge
- Antonyms: agree, unite
- Example Sentence: This road is bifurcated into two suburbs.
7. FIERY (ADJECTIVE): Blazing
- Synonyms: burning, flaming
- Antonyms: cold, cool
- Example Sentence: Maya cooked in a fiery furnace.
8. WALLOP (VERB): Clobber
- Synonyms: drub, trounce
- Antonyms: lose, surrender
- Example Sentence: They wallop Raman.
9. CLIMACTERIC (ADJECTIVE): Crucial
- Synonyms: critical, acute
- Antonyms: unimportant, frequent
- Example Sentence: His life has become climacteric.
10. PRUNE (VERB): Trim
- Synonyms: shorten, snip
- Antonyms: augment, elongate
- Example Sentence: She ordered the servant to prune the plant.