1.Superannuation
Meaning: regular payment made into a fund by an employee towards a future pension.
Synonym: allowance, annuity, grant, payment, premium
Sentence: "had he agreed to resign, he would have been entitled to his superannuation for 29 years' service"
2.Preposterous
Meaning: contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous.
Synonym: ridiculous, foolish, stupid, ludicrous
Antonym: reasonable, sensible
Sentence: "a preposterous suggestion"
3.Remittance
Meaning: a sum of money sent in payment or as a gift.
Synonym:payment, settlement, money
Antonym: underpayment, nonpayment
Sentence:"complete your booking form and send it together with your remittance"
4.Languor
Meaning: tiredness or inactivity, especially when pleasurable.
Synonym: lassitude, lethargy, listlessness
Antonym: vigour
Sentence: "her whole being was pervaded by a dreamy languor"
5.Sabotage
Meaning: deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage.
Synonym: wreck, vandalize, destroy,
Antonym: devotion,faithfulness,fidelity,loyalty
Sentence: "power lines from South Africa were sabotaged by rebel forces"
6.Empirical
Meaning: based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic
Synonym: observed, seen, factual, actual,
Antonym: theoretical
Sentence: "they provided considerable empirical evidence to support their argument"
7.Scurrilous
Meaning: Making or spreading scandalous claims about someone with the intention of damaging their reputation.
Synonym: abusive, vituperative, derogatory, disparaging
Antonym: clean, decent, moral
Sentence: "a scurrilous attack on his integrity"
8.Pejorative
Meaning: expressing contempt or disapproval.
Synonym: disparaging, derogatory
Antonym: complimentary, approbatory
Sentence: "permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term"
9.Plausible
Meaning: (of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.
Synonym: credible, reasonable, believable, likely,
Antonym: unlikely, improbable
Sentence: "a plausible explanation"
10.Denigrate
Meaning: criticize unfairly; disparage.
Synonym: disparage, belittle, diminish, deprecate,
Antonym: extol
Sentence: "doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country"
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