- QUANDARY (NOUN): Difficulty
Synonyms: dilemma, predicament
Antonyms: good fortune, advantage
Example Sentence: These days he is in quandary because he got his walking papers.
- PIQUE (NOUN): Anger
Synonyms: annoyance, grudge
Antonyms: pleasure, joy
Example Sentence: Why are you fixed in your ways and always show pique towards him?
- PECCADILLO (NOUN): Small fault
Synonyms: impropriety, indiscretion
Antonyms: blunder, goof
Example Sentence: Why are you doing a runner over such a peccadio?
- PANOPLY (NOUN): Display
Synonyms: exhibition, presentation
Antonyms: concealment, hiding
Example Sentence: His profane words were a pure panoply of his rigidness.
- PROPITIOUS (ADJECTIVE): Friendly
Synonyms: benevolent, kind
Antonyms: unfavourable, unfriendly
Example Sentence: She is a propitious lady and usually chews the fat.
- QUISLING (NOUN): Traitor
Synonyms: betrayer, judas
Antonyms: loyalist, jingoist
Example Sentence: His upbringing has gone pear shaped for he is a bounty quisling.
- PROFUNDITY (NOUN): Wisdom
Synonyms: intelligence, perspicacity
Antonyms: stupidity, imprudence
Example Sentence: He pulled off smoking cold turkey and showed his profundity.
- OPPROBRIOUS (ADJECTIVE): Abusive
Synonyms: abasing, calumniatory
Antonyms: kind, complimentary
Example Sentence: She took umbrage on his opprobrious remarks.
- KOWTOW (VERB): Grovel
Synonyms: genuflect, pander
Antonyms: unravel, unbend
Example Sentence: Surely I’ll kowtow before anyone when pigs fly.
- LAMBENT (ADJECTIVE): Luminous
Synonyms: bright, brilliant
Antonyms: dim, dull
Example Sentence: Don’t even touch this lambent stone, this may have fallen off the back of a lorry.
