1.Adulation
Meaning: Servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
Synonym: applause, commendation, flattery
Antonym: abuse, criticism
Sentence:The nation, following the lead of the political leaders, joined in their adulation.
2. Prudent
Meaning: Careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
Synonym: wise, sensible, reasonable
Antonym: careless, indiscreet, inattentive
Sentence:"That sacrifice may also be a prudent action," observed Madeleine.
3. Epiphany
Meaning: A moment of sudden understanding or revelation
Synonym: Flash, oracle
Antonym: Confusion, Secret
Sentence:In the first grade, I experienced an epiphany that girls were always treated
differently than boys.
4. Reminiscent
Meaning: Suggestive of something in the past
Synonym: Evocative, redolent
Antonym: forgetful, oblivious
Sentence:Cannot forbear to close on this reminiscent literary note.
5.Errant
Meaning: wrong ,deviant
Synonym: erratic, stray
Antonym: normal,
Sentence:I saw an errant man shouting at his daughter for skipping office
6.Attrition
Meaning: A wearing down to weaken or destroy
Synonym: erosion, grinding
Antonym: building, happiness
Sentence:The difficulty was to overcome its susceptibility to attrition.
7.Quixotic
Meaning: idealistic
Synonym: dreamy, foolish, impractical
Antonym: cautious, realistic, wise
Sentence:That sounds quixotically noble, this stand for the ‘inviolability of marriage.
8.Pernicious
Meaning: hurtful
Synonym: malicious, fatal, evil
Antonym: assisting, good,
Sentence:He thought "such a system would be wrong and pernicious in the extreme.
9. Erudite
Meaning: Well- educated
Synonym: literate, scholarly
Antonym: uneducated, ignorant
Sentence:As to what India derived from Greece there has been a good deal of eruditedebate.
10. Recede
Meaning: Pull back or move away or backward
Synonym: subside, ebb, taper
Antonym: forge, ascend, prolong
Sentence: The unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older
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