1. Ravage – cause severe and extensive damage to.
Synonyms: devastate, pillage, plunder, raze, dismantle, prostrate
Antonyms: preserve, surrender, construct
Usage: If diabetes is not controlled, it can ravage many organs in the human body.
2. Gull – to deceive, trick, or cheat.
Synonyms: bamboozle, deceive, defraud, dupe, gyp, hoodwink
Antonyms: honest
Usage: Trusting investors can easily be gulled by scams designed to relieve them of their savings.
3. Elusive – difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
Synonyms: ambiguous, fleeting, illusory, incomprehensible, subtle
Antonyms: definite, honest, intelligible, stable
Usage: The police are finding it difficult to catch the elusive bank robber.
4. Prosaic – commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
Synonyms: banal, humdrum, mundane, diddly, monotonous
Antonyms: exciting, unusual, creative, imaginative
Usage: As a whole, prosaic writers tend to write very dull stories which most people never remember.
5. Freewheel – act or proceed in a relaxed or casual way, without making much effort.
Synonyms: cruise, drift, sail, skate, float, slide
Antonyms: struggle, combat, endeavor
Usage: He is not the sort of person who would freewheel his way to the end of a contract.
6. Meddle – interfere in something that is not one’s concern.
Synonyms: hinder, impede, infringe, tamper, encroach, interpose
Antonyms: facilitate, dodge, yield, forward
Usage: The government should never meddle with religious affairs.
7. Shackle – to restrain in action, thought, etc., as by restrictions; restrict the freedom of.
Synonyms: handcuff, manacle, trammel
Antonyms: free, unbind, unfasten
Usage: My lack of funds is the shackle that prevents me from travelling.
8. Frenetic – fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.
Synonyms: frantic, furious, obsessive, corybantic, delirious, demented
Antonyms: calm, peaceful, balanced
Usage: Yesterday the sales floor was even more frenetic than usual because of the big clearance sale.
9. Obstreperous – noisy and difficult to control.
Synonyms: blusterous, boisterous, booming, clamorous, disorderly
Antonyms: obedient, salubrious, amenable, tractable
Usage: The teenagers became obstreperous when their school team lost the football game.
10. Stupendous – extremely impressive.
Synonyms: astonishing, breathtaking, colossal, dynamite, enormous
Antonyms: terrible, unimportant, unimpressive
Usage: The store did not expect a stupendous crowd of customers to line up around the building.