1. DESICCATE (VERB): take moisture out of
Synonyms: dehydrate, drain Antonyms: soak, dampen
Example Sentence:
The hot winds of summer months desiccated the few remaining grapes on the vine; and after a day or two, they looked like raisins.
2. MILIEU (NOUN): environment, atmosphere
Synonyms: ambience, surroundings
Example Sentence:
A caring and involved neighborhood community is the proper milieu for raising a family and develop necessary social skills in children.
3. FINESSE (NOUN): know-how, maneuver
Synonyms: competence, skill Antonyms: incapability, ineptness
Example Sentence:
My artist friend who went on to become a surgeon has such finesse in his hands that one can hardly tell if his patients even had surgeries done.
4. HEYDAY (NOUN): prime
Synonyms: pinnacle, peak Antonyms: base, bottom
Example Sentence:
According to historian Angus Maddison, India, at its heyday during the first century, had a 32.9% share of world's GDP.
5. HARBINGER (NOUN): indication
Synonyms: omen, portent Antonyms: doom
Example Sentence:v In the monsoon months, warm weather and lot of sultriness is a harbinger of rain.
6. CARICATURE (NOUN) : exaggerated description in writing, drawing
Synonyms: cartoon, farce Antonyms: solemnity, seriousness
Example Sentence:
Cartoonists often draw caricatures of popular political personalities and in these drawings, big noses, enormous glasses, and other distortions are quite common.
7. PERJURY (NOUN): lying while under oath
Synonyms: dishonesty, deception Antonyms: frankness, honesty
Example Sentence:
The defendant was acquitted of bribery charges but was convicted of perjury, because he had lied more than once under oath on the witness stand during his trial.
8. MORIBUND (ADJECTIVE): dying
Synonyms: expiring, fading Antonyms: recovering
Example Sentence:
The manufacturing sector in America has been moribund for decades due to the rise of low cost manufacturing in developing nations, but now, with the rising prices of oil, it is becoming profitable once again.
9. DISGRESS (VERB): stray, deviate
Synonyms: meander, drift Antonyms: stay, be direct
Example Sentence:
The history teacher in my high school had so much knowledge on various topics of Indian history that he would frequently digress from the main topic and tell us interesting stories about the Mughal and Rajput kingdoms of medieval India.
10. TENET (NOUN) : belief, principle
Synonyms: doctrine, faith Antonyms: disbelief, doubt
Example Sentence:
One of the most important tenets of our democratic form of government is that people can be trusted to govern themselves; how well it works in practice is another issue though.
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