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01) Lampoon (verb) –
Meaning: The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive
language or behavior; To make hurtful untrue comments about;
Synonyms: calumniate, asperse, blacken, ridicule, derision, mockery, laughter
Antonyms: seriousness, truth, honesty, openness
Usage: When he arrived, carrying nothing but a knapsack, he retrieved his Lampoon
credit card from his wallet and broke it in two.
02) Tawdry (verb) –
Meaning: Cheap and gaudy; Involving immoral behavior; Bold and without shame
Synonyms: sordid, base, ignoble, tatty, tinselly, cheap, flashy, brazen
Antonyms: refined, tasteful, elegant, plain
Usage: The outdoor advertising industry has long been seen as tawdry and tasteless.
03) Unwittingly (verb) –
Meaning: In an accidental manner ; having no knowledge of a situation or fact ; lacking
worldly experience, wisdom, or judgment
Synonyms: innocently, naively, ingenuously, ignorantly, unconsciously, inadvertently, accidentally
Antonyms: advisedly, knowingly, intentionally
Usage: He unwittingly made the mistake of questioning the command of the loca
.tyrant.
04) Mendacity (verb) –
Meaning: The tendency to be untruthful; A fabricated story or statement, especially
one intended to deceive
Synonyms: lie, falsehood, untruth, deceit, dishonesty, lying
Antonyms: honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness
Usage: His history of mendacity is so intense and so long lasting that he wouldn’t
understand the truth if he fell over it.
05) Connivance (noun) –
Meaning: The process of conniving or conspiring; The fact or condition of being
involved with or participating in something;
Synonyms: sharing, support, taking part, intrigue, conspiracy, collusion complot,
treason, artifice
Antonyms: ignorance, detachment, uninvolvement, disengagedness
Usage: “Illicit sand mining in the Karumeniyar riverbed has been rampant for many
years with the connivance of the Sattankulam police,”
06) Ablution (Adj) –
Meaning: The liquid used in the cleansing or ablution; A person’s initiation into a
particular activity or role, typically one perceived as difficult; A situation in which
something is cleaned
Synonyms: Cleaning, baptism, initiation, cleansing, shower, lavation
Antonyms: adulteration, corruption, dirtying, pollution, repression
Usage: We are ordered to make ablution before prayer
07) Banter (noun) –
Meaning: The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks; Biting severity, or
sarcastic quality; Exchange remarks in a good-humoured teasing way
Synonyms: Joke, mordacity, acrimony, mordancy, repartee, jesting, joking, raillery
Antonyms: sadness, seriousness, tragedy, unhappiness
Usage: The banter by all these sophisticated Manhattanites is also refreshingly tart.
08) Ebullient (Adj) –
Meaning: Cheerful and full of energy; Effusive and often emotional;
Synonyms: gushy, effusive, fulsome, emotional, exuberant, buoyant, cheery, elated
Antonyms: depressed, apathetic, disinterested
Usage; Hutt was usually ebullient but this time, he came to my office, and he was in a
down mood.
09) Ensconce (noun) –
Meaning: To settle firmly or comfortably; To conceal or hide from view; Reside; use
Synonyms: occupy, inhabit, tenant, hide, conceal, bury, cache, settle, install
Antonyms: confuse, depart, destroy, quit, flee, go from, display, exhibit, expose
Usage: I intend to ensconce myself in a nice hotel looking out on Central Park on
Saturday and Sunday.
10) Exultant (adj) –
Meaning: Very happy, especially at someone else’s defeat or failure; Tending to boast
or brag
Synonyms: boastful, bragging, conceited, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphant, delighted
Antonyms: depressed, disappointed, discouraged
Usage: Here, most of the music is exultant and exhilarating, full of polyrhythms that
inspire the vocalists to slip and slide over the beats.
