- ABSTRUSE (ADJECTIVE): difficult to understand
Synonyms: esoteric, perplexing
Antonyms: lucid, clear
Example Sentence: Don’t get into abstruse task and don’t bite off more than you can chew.
- ACCOST (VERB): approach for conversation
Synonyms: address, confront
Antonyms: dodge, shun
Example Sentence: She waited him to accost and then played it by ear.
- BARRAGE (NOUN): assault
Synonyms: blast, attack
Antonyms: defence, shield
Example Sentence: When she was experiencing the barrage the royal Prince came like a knight in shining armour.
- BENIGN (ADJECTIVE): curable
Synonyms: not cancerous, remediable
Antonyms: cancerous, injurious
Example Sentence: His ailment was benign but at that last moment doctors turned a blind eye.
- ABDICATION (NOUN): relinquishment
Synonyms: abandonment, disavowal
Antonyms: sanction, allowance
Example Sentence: The family was fed up with the abdication from the society.
- BABBLE (VERB): mumble
Synonyms: mutter, murmur
Antonyms: be quiet, be silent
Example Sentence: She would not babble is like a fat chance.
- BAIT (VERB): entice
Synonyms: tempt, seduce
Antonyms: repel, repulse
Example Sentence: She knows the ropes how to bait him.
- ABET (VERB): instigate
Synonyms: provoke, incite
Antonyms: resist, prevent
Example Sentence: He abets his neighbour all the time, don’t you know he is mad as a hatter.
- BARREN (ADJECTIVE): unprofitable
Synonyms: profitless, stale
Antonyms: productive, fertile
Example Sentence: His plan is utterly barren, he has his head in the clouds now a days.
- ABJURE (VERB): give up
Synonyms: forswear, recant
Antonyms: allow, emphasize
Example Sentence: I abjure working on his poor etiquettes as he is driving me round the bend now.
