1. Efficacy – the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
Synonyms: adequacy, competence, effectiveness, potency, virtue, capableness
Antonyms: enervation, failure, idleness, impotence, inactivity
Usage: The efficacy of the RBI’s liquidity management toolkit will impinge on another key concern: inflation.
2. Impinge – have an effect, especially a negative one.
Synonyms: encroach, infringe, intrude, violate, meddle, invade
Antonyms: dodge, avoid
Usage: The efficacy of the RBI’s liquidity management toolkit will impinge on another key concern: inflation.
3. Prevarication – a false or deliberate misstatement
Synonyms: dishonesty, equivocation, falsehood, deceitfulness, distortion
Antonyms: honesty, truth
Usage: Her many prevarications had apparently paid off; she was free to go.
4. Entrench – establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely.
Synonyms: establish, settle, ensconce, lodge, install, embed, anchor,
Antonyms: discourage, dissuade, hurt, weaken
Usage: Entrenched inequality is a concern for China’s leaders, yet their own policies add to the headwinds these regions face.
5. Headwinds – situations or conditions that make growth harder
Antonyms: tailwind
Usage: Entrenched inequality is a concern for China’s leaders, yet their own policies add to the headwinds these regions face.
6. Contort – twist or bend out of the normal shape.
Synonyms: deform, writhe, bend, convolute, curve, gnarl, knot,
Antonyms: straighten, beautify, smooth
Usage: The software contorted our pictures and made us look ridiculous.
7. Swerve – change or cause to change direction abruptly.
Synonyms: skew, deflect, lurch, stray, deviate, sidestep, depart
Antonyms: go direct, stay, remain, straighten
Usage: Do not make sudden swerves, particularly around parked vehicles
8. Exasperate – irritate intensely
Synonyms: infuriate, incense, madden, enrage, antagonize, pique
Antonyms: appease, assist, comfort, tranquilize, alleviate
Usage: Since I am a hard worker, I get exasperated when I am placed on a team with lazy people.
9. Spurious – apparently but not actually valid.
Synonyms: bogus, factitious, counterfeit, trumped-up, feigned, pretended
Antonyms: genuine, real, valid, authentic
Usage: Traffic police routinely stop drivers for spurious reasons, expecting a bribe in return for letting them proceed.
10. Doughty – brave and persistent.
Synonyms: dauntless, resolute, indomitable, intrepid, plucky, undaunted
Antonyms: timid
Usage: Even the possibility of death in the jungle was not enough to scare away the doughty explorer.