1. Dispensation
- Meaning: An exemption from a rule or obligation
- Synonym: disbursement, conferment, bestowal
- Antonym: disfavour, denial, veto
- Sentence:At the close of the Jubilee this dispensation was extended to all who had expired on the way to Rome.
2. Scourge
- Meaning: A whip used to inflict punishment; Something causing misery or death
- Synonym: plague, torment, bane
- Antonym: reward, blessing, boon
- Sentence:He was the scourge of the neighbourhood
3. Enunciation
- Meaning: The articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
- Synonym: articulation, elocution, phonation
- Sentence:The broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English
4. Scathing
- Meaning: Marked by harshly abusive criticism
- Synonym: caustic, mordant, trenchant
- Antonym: calm, gentle, generous
- Sentence:His scathing remarks about silly lady novelists
5. Stymied
- Meaning: Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- Synonym: crimp, shelve, stonewall
- Antonym: abet, support, explicate
- Sentence:His brother stymied him at every turn
6. Stupor
- Meaning: The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; Marginal consciousness
- Synonym: slumber, hebetude, narcosis
- Antonym: liveliness, sensibility, wakefulness
- Sentence:Someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor
7. Imperative
- Meaning: Requiring attention or action
- Synonym: obligatory, indispensable, clamorous
- Antonym: trivial, unnecessary, unrestrained
- Sentence:As nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative
8. Spurn
- Meaning: Refuse with contempt
- Synonym: despise, disdain, scorn
- Antonym: ascend, accept, admire
- Sentence:She spurned his advances
9. Semblance
- Meaning: An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- Synonym: pretence, veneer, affinity
- Antonym: reality, concrete, rear
- Sentence:He hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity.
10. Emblematic
- Meaning: Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract
- Synonym: typical, emblematical, figurative
- Sentence:The free discussion that is emblematic of democracy
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