Term | Definition | Synonym | Antonym |
bizarre | extremely strange, unusual, atypical | grotesque, fantastic, outlandish | normal, typical,ordinary, expected |
bursque | abrupt, blunt, with no formalities | tactless, ungracious | tactful, diplomatic |
cajole | to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive through soothing thoughts or false promises | wheedle, inveigle | coerce, force |
castigate | to punish severely; to criticize severely | chastise, censure | honor, praise, laud |
contrive | to plan with ingenuity; to bring about through a plan | think up, concoct, fabricate | |
demagogue | a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power | rabble-rouser, firebrand | |
disabuse | to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking | undeceive, enlighten | deceive, delude, pull wool over one's eyes |
ennui | weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom | languor, world, listlessness | enthusiasm, liveliness, excitement, intensity |
fetter | a chain or shackle placed on the feet (often used in plural); anything that confines or restrains; (v) to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent | bond, restraint,; (v)bind, hamper | (v) free, liberate, emancipate |
heinous | very wicked, offensive, hateful | evil, odious, outrageous | excellent, wonderful, splendid |
immutable | not subject to change, constant | unchangeable, unalterable, fixed, invariable | changeable, inconstant, variable, fickle |
insugent | one who rebels or rises against a authority; (adj) rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority | revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous | loyalist, loyal, faithful |
magalomania | delusional marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent atc, far excess pf reality | delusions of grandeur | modesty, self-abasement |
sinecure | a position requiring little or no work; an easy job | "no-show" job, cushy job, "plum" | |
surreptitious | stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud | furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed | open, frank, aboveboard, overt |
trangress | to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law | overstep, trespass | obey, toe the line |
transmute | to change from nature, substance, or form to another | transform, covert | preserve, maintain |
viacrious | preformed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another | surrogate, secondhand | actual, firsthand |
Anomalous | abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual | exceptional, unusual, aberrant | normal, regular, customary, typical, ordinary |
Aspersion | a damaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering or defaming | innuendo, calumny | endorsement, praise |