Synonyms: profanity, blasphemy
Antonyms: reverence, respect
Example Sentence:
But to assert that even the most unguarded passages of the book made for impiety was a great mistake.
2. FIENDISH (ADJECTIVE): diabolical
Synonyms: brutish, atrocious Antonyms: magnificent, wonderful
Example Sentence:
Surely only an advanced hacker could mastermind such a fiendish act — right?
3. RESONANT (ADJECTIVE): vibrant in sound
Synonyms: mellow, sonorous Antonyms: faint, quiet
Example Sentence:
He has a lean, crackling energy about him, a sense of dramatic flourish, a resonant voice that is not unaware of its own music.
4. CLINQUANT (ADJECTIVE): glittery
Synonyms: showy, tinsel Antonyms: dull, sober
Example Sentence:
My eyes rejoice in the shine of it; its clinquant sound is music in my ears.
5. CONSTATE (VERB): declare, assert
Synonyms: admit, affirm Antonyms: disavow, refuse
Example Sentence:
It is important to constate that there are areas that will simply never be the same
after the events three years ago.
6. APOSIOPESIS (NOUN): turn of expression
Synonyms: adumbration, allegory Antonyms: real, truth
Example Sentence:
His aposiopesis suggested that there would be uproar and danger to life.
7. CRUMMY (ADJECTIVE): lousy
Synonyms: miserable, shabby Antonyms: good, nice
Example Sentence:
The translation might as well be: he was a crummy governor; why would he be a different president?
8. LAPIDATED (VERB): beat; throw hard
Synonyms: assail, hurl Antonyms: lose, tap
Example Sentence:
The only group that it was okay to lapidate, she says, was liberals.
9. VICTUALS (NOUN): food supplies
Synonyms: edibles, foodstuff Antonyms: starvation, deprivation
Example Sentence:
But the victuals as are waited for do have a better flavour to them nor those which we ate straight from the pot like.
10. TUCK (VERB): fold together
Synonyms: insert, pinch Antonyms: expand, spread
Example Sentence:
After so many years, he had been able to tuck away the emotional scars of physical abuse.
