1. PURLOIN (VERB): steal
Synonyms: embezzle, pilfer
Antonyms: give, keep
Example Sentence:
During the raid, a crooked police officer was caught trying to purloin drug money.
2. TATTERED (ADJECTIVE): shredded
Synonyms: ripped, shabby
Antonyms: fresh, unused
Example Sentence:
She was dressed in a tattered coat, hands in her lap, sitting as nervously as an immigrant awaiting deportation.
3. PROSCRIBE (VERB): condemn, exclude
Synonyms: forbid, prohibit
Antonyms: allow, permit
Example Sentence:
In our country, there are laws which proscribe discrimination based on race and gender.
4. PROPITIATE (VERB): conciliate
Synonyms: assuage, satisfy
Antonyms: upset, worry
Example Sentence:
People would often sacrifice their friends and family members to propitiate the gods in order to be pardoned for their misdeeds.
5. CONTUMELIOUS (ADJECTIVE): insolent
Synonyms: abusive, brash
Antonyms: praising, complimentary
Example Sentence:
I weep and cry out, I have been a most contumelious offender.
6. AFOUL (ADVERB): wrongly; defectively
Synonyms: erringly, improperly
Antonyms: good, right
Example Sentence:
In youth he was so pious, that young and old were afraid to say afoul word in his presence.
7. MALINGER (VERB): evade
Synonyms: fake, dodge
Antonyms: face, meet
Example Sentence:
The lazy student tried to malinger when it was time to work on his essay.
8. CONSONANCE (NOUN): agreement, consistency
Synonyms: conformity, accord
Antonyms: discord, disagreement
Example Sentence:
Some of these statements are so much in consonance with the indirect evidence
afforded by the satires that they may be a series of conjectures based upon them.
9. ESTRANGE (VERB): destroy the affections of
Synonyms: alienate, separate
Antonyms: agree, combine
Example Sentence:
In the four years and a half during which his ministry had lasted he had done much to estrange his party.
10. CONTUMACIOUS (ADJECTIVE): headstrong, obstinate
Synonyms: inflexible, contrary
Antonyms: obedient, following
Example Sentence:
The contumacious football player was kicked off the team for not following the coach’s orders.
