1. OVERAWE (VERB): amaze
Synonyms: astonish, flabbergast Antonyms: embolden, encourage
Example Sentence:
He overawed with his capacity to speak clearly on global politics.
2. PRESCIENT (ADJECTIVE): having foresight
Synonyms: farsighted, perceptive Antonyms: ignorant, unaware
Example Sentence:
Damien Hirst was prescient and responded to the changing value system 15 years in advance.
3. PROSELYTIZE (VERB): convert, espouse
Synonyms: convince, persuade Antonyms: deny, renounce
Example Sentence:
Show your fire and proselytize with white hot intensity.
4. COMEUPPANCE (NOUN): deserved fate
Synonyms: retribution, recompense Antonyms: forgiveness, sympathy
Example Sentence:
Their efforts to hide this fact, and their eventual comeuppance, provides several hearty laughs.
5. PREFERMENT (NOUN): promotion or progress
Synonyms: advancement, improvement Antonyms: cessation, regression
Example Sentence:
Big figures with the dollar mark before them are the open sesame to social recognition and political preferment.
6. JINGOISTIC (ADJECTIVE): aggressive, warlike
Synonyms: battling, belligerent Antonyms: kind, peaceful
Example Sentence:
There was a kind of jingoistic nationalism to media coverage.
7. ABERRATION (NOUN): noun state of abnormality
Synonyms: oddity, peculiarity Antonyms: normality, conformity
Example Sentence:
Although there are no colors in the photograph, chromatic aberration will blur the image.
8. ACQUIESCE (VERB): agree with some reluctance
Synonyms: accede, comply Antonyms: differ, oppose
Example Sentence:
Well, when an alligator demands your pajamas, all you can do is acquiesce.
9. BETROTHAL (NOUN): marriage
Synonyms: engagement, espousal Antonyms: separation, divorce
Example Sentence:
IN the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged.
10. CURSORY (ADJECTIVE): casual, hasty.
Synonyms: desultory, perfunctory Antonyms: detailed, meticulous
Example Sentence:
And even a cursory look at his gallery of work makes its stealth and subversiveness abundantly clear.
