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  1. DENIZEN (noun) 
    Meaning: a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place.
    Synonyms: inhabitant, occupant, resident, tenant.
    Antonyms: visitor, emigrant, evacuee, expatriate.
    Usage: The author of Atlanta’s latest guidebook is a longtime denizen of the city who knows all the best places to visit.
  2. TRIFLE (Noun) 
    Meaning: a thing of little value or importance.
    Synonyms: bagatelle, inessential, nothing
    Antonyms: lot
    Example: We needn’t trouble the headmaster over such trifles.
  3. DECRY (Verb) – दोष देना
    Meaning: publicly denounce.
    Synonyms: denounce, condemn, criticize, censure, damn, attack
    Antonyms: praise, overrate
    Example: He is impatient with those who decry the scheme.
  4. VITRIOLIC (Adjective)
    Meaning: filled with bitter criticism or malice.
    Synonyms: acrimonious, rancorous, bitter, caustic, mordant
    Antonyms: pleasant, kind
    Example: The newspaper launched a vitriolic attack on the president.
  5. ROIL (Verb)
    Meaning: make (someone) annoyed or irritated.
    Synonyms: disturb, rile
    Antonyms: aid, calm
    Example: The man’s hateful speech was just enough to roil up the already uneasy crowd.
  6. SPLURGE (verb) 
    Meaning: to spend extravagantly or ostentatiously.
    Synonyms: squander, fling, dissipate, disburse.
    Antonyms: accumulate, hoard, conserve, preserve.
    Usage: I feel like splurging on a new dress.
  7. POLEMICAL (Adjective)
    Meaning: of or involving strongly critical or disputatious writing or speech.
    Synonyms: critical, hostile, bitter, polemic, virulent
    Antonyms: noncontroversial
    Example: Unlike most academic philosophy much of it is personal, polemical, poetical or allusive.
  8. DETENTE (noun) 
    Meaning: the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
    Synonyms: agreement, peace, amity, concord.
    Antonyms: disruptive, antagonism, antipathy, hostility.
    Usage: The policy of detente was scrapped and the objective was increasingly to roll back the Soviet Union.
  9. SACK (verb) 
    Meaning: dismiss from employment.
    Synonyms: bounce, discharge, dismiss, terminate,
    Antonyms: recruit, employ, engage, hire.
    Usage: They made him pay for his offense by giving him the sack.
  10. DILATORY (adjective) 

       Meaning: slow to act
Synonyms: sluggish, slothful, lax, slack.
Antonyms: fast, prompt, brisk, quick.
Usage: They were dilatory in providing the researchers with information.

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