1. ABSTRUSE (ADJECTIVE): difficult to understand
- Synonyms: esoteric, perplexing
- Antonyms: lucid, clear
- Example Sentence: Don’t get into abstruse task and don’t bite off more than you can chew.
2. ACCOST (VERB): approach for conversation
- Synonyms: address, confront
- Antonyms: dodge, shun
- Example Sentence: She waited for him to accost and then played it by ear.
3. BARRAGE (NOUN): assault
- Synonyms: blast, attack
- Antonyms: defence, shield
- Example Sentence: When she was experiencing the barrage the royal Prince came like a knight in shining armour.
4. BENIGN (ADJECTIVE): curable
- Synonyms: not cancerous, remediable
- Antonyms: cancerous, injurious
- Example Sentence: His ailment was benign but at that last moment doctors turned a blind eye.
5. ABDICATION (NOUN): relinquishment
- Synonyms: abandonment, disavowal
- Antonyms: sanction, allowance
- Example Sentence: The family was fed up with the abdication from society.
6. BABBLE (VERB): mumble
- Synonyms: mutter, murmur
- Antonyms: be quiet, be silent
- Example Sentence: She would not babble like a fat chance.
7. BAIT (VERB): entice
- Synonyms: tempt, seduce
- Antonyms: repel, repulse
- Example Sentence: She knows the ropes and how to bait him.
8. ABET (VERB): instigate
- Synonyms: provoke, incite
- Antonyms: resist, prevent
- Example Sentence: He bets his neighbour all the time, don’t you know he is mad as a hatter.
9. BARREN (ADJECTIVE): unprofitable
- Synonyms: profitless, stale
- Antonyms: productive, fertile
- Example Sentence: His plan is utterly barren, he has his head in the clouds now a days.
10. ABJURE (VERB): give up
- Synonyms: forswear, recant
- Antonyms: allow, emphasize
- Example Sentence: I abjure working on his poor etiquettes as he is driving me round the bend now.
