1. Inkling – a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint
Synonyms: hunch, impression, indication, insinuation, intimation
Antonyms: information
Usage: The records give us an inkling of how people saw the world.
2. Accredit – give credit to (someone) for something.
Synonyms: ascribe, refer, authorize, attribute
Antonyms: deny, disapprove, reject
Usage: He was accredited with being one of the world’s fastest sprinters
3. Topple – overbalance or cause to overbalance and fall.
Synonyms: tumble, overturn, plunge, capsize, collapse, plummet
Antonyms: hold, rise, straighten
Usage: Disagreement had threatened to topple the government
4. Filch – steal (something, especially an item of small value) in a casual way.
Synonyms: embezzle, pilfer, purloin, hustle, misappropriate, scrounge
Antonyms: give, receive, contribute
Usage: The old woman used her cane to beat the teenager who tried to filch her purse.
5. Vindictive – having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.
Synonyms: vengeful, avenging, resentful, implacable, unrelenting, acrimonious. rancorous, venomous, poisonous, malicious, malevolent,
Antonyms: compassionate, considerate, forgiving, merciful, sympathetic
Usage: My aunt is a vindictive woman who once burned all my uncle’s clothes.
6. Usurious – relating to or characterized by usury; extortionate.
Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, desirous, niggardly, penurious
Antonyms: generous, unselfish
Usage: The acts were directed to restrain the lending of money at usurious rates.
7. Unabated – without any reduction in intensity or strength.
Synonyms: incessant, persistent, punishing, sustained, tenacious, unflagging, unrelenting, unremitting, unstoppable
Antonyms: intermittent, relenting, surrendering, yielding
Usage: During the war the political reaction continued with unabated force.
8. Prurient – having a restless desire or longing.
Synonyms: erotic, salacious, licentious, depraved, obscene
Usage: I became concerned about my neighbor’s prurient curiosity when I caught him.
9. Ineffable – too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
Synonyms: ethereal, indescribable, transcendent, celestial, divine, empyreal
Antonyms: definable, describable, utterable
Usage: The model’s beauty is ineffable and has everyone tongue-tied.
10. Axiomatic – evident without proof or argument
Synonyms: aphoristic, absolute, apothegmatic, undamental, indubitable
Antonyms: misunderstood, questionable, uncertain
Usage: It is axiomatic to write that we are living in an age of technology.