ANTONYMS
impulsive (Adjective) : rash ; malevolent (Adjective) : mali- benign (Adjective) : kind and
impetuous ; acting suddenly cious; wicked; having/showing gentle
without thinking carefully about desire to harm other people unsparing (Adjective) : not car-
the results spiteful (Adjective) : malicious ing about people’s feelings ; giv-
reckless (Adjective) : rash ; baneful (Adjective) : evil/caus- ing/given generously
showing a lack of care about ing evil 354. (1) poor (Adjective) : not wealthy
danger and the possible results 349. (1) disappear (Verb) : to vanish; opulent (Adjective) : made/dec-
of the actions to stop existing orated using expensive materi-
344. (1) retreated (Verb) : to move emerge (Verb) : to come out ; to als; luxurious; extremely rich;
away/back ; to retire ; to recede ; appear ; to become known ; to wealthy
to escape transpire sumptuous (Adjective) : very
approached (Verb) : to come near fall (Verb) : to drop from a high- expensive and looking very im-
(in distance) ; to speak to some- er to a lower level pressive
body about something ; to come drooping (Adjective) : hanging
mark (Verb) : to indicate ; to
close to something in amount, down; weak from exhaustion
characterize
level or quality
fade (Verb) : to become/make wealthy (Adjective) : very rich
reached (Verb) : to arrive at ; to
increase to a particular level, something paler/less bright 355. (1) advance (Verb) : to move for-
speed, etc ; to achieve a partic- 350. (3) meagre (Adjective) : paltry ; ward ; further
ular aim small in quantity and poor in recede (Verb) : to diminish; to
arrived (Verb) : to get to a place; quality withdraw; to stop growing; to
to reach ample (Adjective) : enough/ move gradually away from some-
more than enough ; plenty of ; body; to retreat
reproached (Verb) : to blame/
criticize ; to feel guilty large ; sufficient retrograde (Adjective) : making
345. (4) beginning (Noun) : start sufficient (Adjective) : enough ; a situation worse or returning to
sufficient how something was in the past
culmination (Noun) : the high-
est point/end of something minimal (Adjective) : very small retreat (Verb) : to move away/
completion (Noun) : the act/ in size/amount ; as small as pos- back ; to recede ; to retire ; to
process of finishing sible back off
climax (Noun) : the most excit- optimal (Adjective) : the best withdraw (Verb) : to recede ; to
ing/important event/point in time possible ; ideal retreat ; to move back/away ; to
351. (2) allow (Verb) : to permit pull out ; to retract
conclusion (Noun) : the end ;
completion curb (Verb) : check ; to control/ 356. (1) intermittent (Adjective) :
346. (3) eliminate (Verb) : to remove/ limit; to restrain sporadic ; stopping and starting
get rid of/defeat/kill/knock out help (Verb) : to aid often over a period of time, but
not regularly
include (Verb) : to make some- restrain (Verb) : to keep under
body/something a part of some- control perpetual (Adjective) : continu-
thing remove (Verb) : to get rid of ous ; continuing for a long peri-
embrace (Verb) : to hug od of time without interruption;
352. (4) straight (Adjective) : not
continual
embody (Verb) : to represent bent or twisted
enclose (Verb) : to surround ; to frequent (Adjective) : often
crooked (Adjective) : not in a
put something in the same en- straight line ; bent/twisted ; an- continuous (Adjective) : con-
velope, package, etc. noyed stant
347. (2) reliable (Adjective) : depend- twisted (Adjective) : bent ; not rare (Adjective) : not done, seen,
able ; that can be trusted normal ; strange in an unpleas- happening etc. very often
unpredictable (Adjective) : that ant way 357. (3) orderly (Adjective) : behav-
cannot be predicted because it devious (Adjective) : behaving ing well ; arranged in a neat,
changes a lot in a dishonest/indirect way ; de- careful or logical way
pliable (Adjective) : flexible ; easy ceitful unruly (Adjective) : difficult to
to influence bended (Adjective) : not straight control/manage ; disorderly
possible (Adjective) : that can (of the back and knees) uneven (Adjective) : not level,
be done/achieved 353. (1) self–centred (Adjective) : smooth or flat; irregular; unequal
potential (Noun) : possible tending to think only about your- undue (Adjective) : more than
348. (4) benign (Adjective) : kind and self and not thinking about the you think is reasonable or nec-
gentle; not hurting anybody; not needs or feelings of other people essary ; excessive
dangerous or likely to cause philanthropic (Adjective) : be- dirty (Adjective) : not clean
death nevolent; generous in assistance 358. (2) dullness (Noun) : slowness
malicious (Adjective) : spiteful; to the poor in understanding ; stupidity
malevolent ; having/showing ha- benevolent (Adjective) : kind, knack (Noun) : a special skill/
tred and a desire to harm/hurt helpful and generous ability that you have naturally or
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