Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms — Quick Reference

Lesson 1

  • DEAR → costly
  • MINIMUM → lowest
  • DELEGATE → representative
  • INDUSTRIOUS → hardworking
  • COLOSSUS → huge
  • PRUDENT → wise
  • FEEBLE → weak
  • CALAMITY → disaster
  • DILIGENT → energetic; industrious
  • SUPERSEDE → set aside
  • PERILOUS → dangerous
  • AFFLUENCE → richness
  • BIFURCATED → dissected into pieces
  • ONUS → responsibility

Lesson 2

  • BARREN → infertile
  • INADVERTENT → unintentional
  • ABSTAIN → refrain
  • COUNTERFEIT → fake
  • NOVICE → beginner
  • LUXURIANT → rich; luxuriant
  • CANTANKEROUS → quarrelsome
  • ONUS → responsibility
  • DERISION → ridicule
  • TRITE → commonplace
  • LUXURIANT (duplicate term in notes) → see above
  • DILIGENT → energetic; industrious
  • FAMILIAR → well-known
  • DESSERT → sweet-dish

Lesson 3

  • LIABILITY → debt
  • INTEGRATION → unity; coordination
  • DISCRIMINATE → distinguish
  • APPEAR → see
  • CEASE → stop
  • DEBACLE → downfall
  • OSTRACISE → banish
  • PROPHYLACTIC → preventive
  • CODDLE → satisfy
  • FLIMSY → weak
  • DEFER → postpone
  • DEMONSTRATE → show
  • DELIBERATE → intentional
  • AUTOCRATIC → dictatorial
  • DARING → courageous

Lesson 4

  • ATROCITY → violence
  • FORTIFY → strengthen
  • PACIFY → calm down
  • PAUCITY → shortage
  • TEDIOUS → dull
  • CONTROVERT → contradict
  • VIRULENT → deadly
  • SPIRITED → ardent
  • EXECRATE → denounce
  • PERQUISITE → privilege (perquisite)
  • AUTOCRATIC → dictatorial
  • DARING → courageous
  • DEMONSTRATE → show
  • DEFER → postpone
  • DELIBERATE → intentional

Lesson 5

  • SAVOUR → taste
  • RIVALLED → competed
  • TRIMMING → cutting
  • PESTER → annoy
  • DISPARITY → difference
  • FORTIFY → strengthen
  • ATROCITY → violence
  • TEDIOUS → dull
  • PAUCITY → shortage
  • PACIFY → calm down
  • FLAUNT → exhibit
  • SUBJUGATE → conquer
  • BEHAVIOUR → conduct
  • STRINGENT → inflexible
  • DELIBERATELY → intentionally

Lesson 6

  • INCLEMENT → unfavourable
  • GENIAL → cordial
  • ACCRUE → accumulate
  • LOQUACIOUS → talkative
  • POIGNANT → sad (emotional)
  • QUERULOUS → complaining
  • AUDACIOUS → bold
  • PERILOUS → hazardous
  • REVERIE → day-dream
  • FLAUNT → exhibit
  • SUBJUGATE → conquer
  • BEHAVIOUR → conduct
  • STRINGENT → inflexible
  • DELIBERATELY → intentionally

Lesson 7

  • DEFER → postpone
  • CEASE → stop
  • PIOUS → religious
  • ABANDON → forsake
  • CANCEL → abolish
  • DILIGENT → hardworking
  • TEMPEST → storm
  • INSTANT → immediate
  • DISASTER → misfortune
  • ADVERSE → unfavourable
  • ACQUAINT → introduce
  • CHANGE → alter
  • REQUEST → ask
  • FOREBODING → foresight
  • GENUINE → real

Lesson 8

  • ADORN → beautify
  • REPOSE → rest
  • COMMOTION → disturbance
  • IRREVOCABLE → unalterable
  • ANGER → displeasure
  • RESTRICT → curtail
  • ANTICIPATE → expect
  • TREMENDOUS → remarkable
  • METICULOUS → methodical
  • ABUNDANT → plentiful
  • ELASTIC → flexible
  • VACILLATE → waver
  • IMPEDIMENT → obstruction
  • IMPECCABLE → perfect
  • DESSERT → sweet-dish
  • AFFILIATE → associate

Lesson 9

  • NOVICE → beginner
  • ADVERSARY → opponent
  • DISHONOUR → infamy
  • ERUDITE → scholarly
  • IDEA → notion
  • MANIA → madness
  • PERISH → die
  • ALLURE → tempt
  • ECONOMIC → thrifty (context-dependent)
  • SUPERFICIAL → shallow
  • INFIRM → weak
  • CORDIAL → friendly
  • SOLE → only; principal
  • SYSTEMATICALLY → methodically
  • WHOLESOME → sound

Lesson 10

  • NOVICE → beginner
  • ADVERSARY → opponent
  • DISHONOUR → infamy
  • ERUDITE → scholarly
  • IDEA → notion
  • MANIA → madness
  • PERISH → die
  • ALLURE → tempt
  • ECONOMIC → thrifty (context-dependent)
  • SUPERFICIAL → shallow
  • INFIRM → weak
  • CORDIAL → friendly
  • SOLE → only; principal
  • SYSTEMATICALLY → methodically
  • WHOLESOME → sound

Lesson 11

  • PREJUDICED → biased
  • MONUMENT → memorial
  • CARE → concern
  • TRIVIAL → insignificant
  • COMPETENT → efficient; experienced
  • INDISCRIMINATE → undifferentiated
  • LITERAL → verbatim
  • INTRICATE → complicated
  • EXPEDITIOUSLY → quickly
  • IDIOSYNCRASIES → eccentricities
  • VOCIFEROUS → loud
  • FICTIONAL → fanciful
  • TRIVIAL → insignificant
  • IMPUDENT → impertinent
  • POMPOUS → pretentious

Lesson 12

  • NEXUS → connection
  • MAMMOTH → huge
  • HYPERBOLE → exaggeration
  • EULOGY → praise
  • MENACINGLY → threateningly
  • ANNEXURE → attachment
  • ERRAND → task
  • BEQUEATH → give
  • NONCHALANT → casual
  • FORBEARANCE → patience
  • NARCISSISM → self-admiration
  • CAMOUFLAGE → disguise
  • YEARN → crave
  • PENSIVE → contemplative
  • IMPECCABLE → flawless
  • IMMACULATE → spotless

Lesson 13

  • THRIVE → flourish
  • DISSUADE → discourage
  • ANGUISH → distress
  • DISCRIMINATE → distinguish
  • APPEAR → see; seem
  • CEASE → stop
  • LIABILITY → debt
  • INTEGRATION → coordination
  • AFFILIATE → associate
  • EXPLICIT → clear
  • DILIGENT → industrious
  • FAMILIAR → well-known
  • DESSERT → sweet-dish
  • IMPLICIT → understood (context varies)
  • THRIFTY vs GENEROUS (context varies)

Lesson 14

  • INADVERTENT → unintentional
  • FORTITUDE → courage
  • DUPLICITY → deceit
  • FIDELITY → faithfulness
  • VANGUARD → flag bearer; pioneer
  • APPRISE → inform
  • PERIODIC → occasional
  • GRUESOME → hideous
  • BLISS → happiness
  • CANDID → frank
  • MEAGRE → inadequate
  • PAIL → bucket
  • CONDONE → forgive
  • BRISK → quick
  • DESPOT → tyrant

Lesson 15

  • SANCTION → permission
  • PERSISTENT → continuous; enduring
  • COMPASSIONATE → sympathetic
  • SOLITARY → lonely
  • DECAY → decompose; decline
  • DILIGENT → hardworking
  • BLUNDER → mistake
  • COARSE → rough
  • ASSOCIATE → connect
  • QUALM → scruple
  • CONTIGUOUS → adjoining
  • INNOCUOUS → harmless
  • GAPE → stare
  • ELUDE → avoid
  • PLEASURE → happiness

Lesson 16

  • ONUS → responsibility
  • ESSENTIAL → vital
  • FORTITUDE → courage
  • IMPLY → connote
  • VIGILANT → watchful
  • GAOL → jail
  • LOATHING → hatred
  • PRAGMATIC → practical
  • NOTION → thought
  • VIVACIOUS → energetic
  • PERIPHERY → edge
  • EXONERATE → absolve
  • EXQUISITE → exquisite/beautiful; in context often “perfect”
  • COMPREHENSIVE → inclusive
  • CLANDESTINELY → secretly

Lesson 17

  • THRIVE → flourish
  • DISSUADE → discourage
  • ANGUISH → distress
  • DISCRIMINATE → distinguish
  • APPEAR → see; seem
  • CEASE → stop
  • LIABILITY → debt
  • INTEGRATION → coordination
  • AFFILIATE → associate
  • EXPLICIT → clear
  • DILIGENT → industrious
  • FAMILIAR → well-known
  • DESSERT → sweet-dish
  • IMITATE → copy
  • OBSCENE → indecent

Lesson 18

  • FICTITIOUS → false
  • FRAGRANCE → aroma
  • CAJOLE → persuade
  • DUO → pair
  • PECULIAR → strange
  • IMMACULATE → spotless
  • DESERTED → abandoned
  • UNAWARE → ignorant
  • WAIVED → abstained
  • ACCESS → reach
  • MASSES → groups
  • ENVISAGE → visualize
  • TRADITIONAL → customary
  • IRREPROACHABLE → faultless

Lesson 19

  • FELICITY → bliss
  • KNAVE → scoundrel
  • Frontier → edge; boundary
  • ROUT → defeat
  • Absurd → ridiculous
  • Solitary → lonely
  • Pacific → peaceful
  • Coarse → rough
  • Vanish → disappear
  • Spurious → fake
  • Barbaric → uncivilized
  • Hurdle → obstacle
  • Deter → hinder
  • Alienate → distance
  • Voluptuous → sensual

Lesson 20

  • Sorcery → witchcraft
  • Rouge → (context-dependent; often red or lipstick; usage in these notes: red makeup; commonly relates to makeup)
  • Valour → courage; honour
  • Glimpse → brief view
  • Prime Minister hoisting flag scene → parapet/parapet-like term; keep as context note
  • Hallucination → delusion
  • Salacious → lustful
  • Derive → obtain
  • Citadel → fortress
  • Stern → strict
  • Aberration → deviation
  • Repeated → reiterated
  • Revere → respect
  • Erudite → scholarly
  • Allure → entice
  • Condone → forgive
  • Analogy → comparison

Lesson 21

  • Parsimony → miserliness
  • Tribulation → suffering
  • The Prime Minister goes on the ramparts to hoist the National flag → parapet option noted as context cue
  • Hallucination → delusion
  • Salacious → lustful
  • Derive → obtain
  • Citadel → fortress
  • Stern → strict
  • Aberration → deviation
  • Repeated → reiterated
  • Revere → respect
  • Erudite → scholarly
  • Allure → entice
  • Condone → forgive
  • Analogy → comparison

Lesson 22

  • Scepticism → doubt
  • Withstand → resist
  • Conciliatory → soothing
  • Insidious → deceitful
  • Mundane → normal; ordinary
  • Obstrepperous → noisy
  • Disparate → different
  • Accolade → praise
  • Stark → bare
  • Assiduous → diligent
  • Implore → request
  • Mundane (repeat) → ordinary
  • Devious → cunning
  • Infallible → flawless
  • Periodic → occasional

Lesson 23

  • Nexus → connection
  • Mammoth → huge
  • Hyperbole → exaggeration
  • Eulogy → praise
  • Menacingly → threateningly
  • Annexure → attachment
  • Errand → task
  • Bequeath → give
  • Nonchalant → casual
  • Forbearance → patience
  • Narcissism → self-admiration
  • Camouflage → disguise
  • Yearn → crave
  • Pensive → contemplative
  • Impeccable → flawless
  • Immaculate → spotless

Lesson 24

  • Dedicated → devoted
  • Apart from → in addition to
  • Revolutionize → change drastically
  • Stroked → patted
  • Wobbly → shaky
  • Reputation → character; fame; honour
  • Folly → mistake
  • Particular → special; definite
  • Denuded → stripped
  • Ascribed → attributed
  • Accomplice → collaborator
  • Reputation → character (duplicate notion)
  • Folly → mistake (duplicate)
  • Particular → special; definite (duplicate)
  • Equipping → providing

Lesson 25

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