1. Votary – a devoted follower, adherent, or advocate of someone or something.
Synonyms: addict, adherent, admirer, aficionado, amateur, disciple, zealot
Antonyms: critic, detractor, enemy, opponent
Usage: He was a votary of John Keats
2. Totter – move in a feeble or unsteady way; be insecure or about to fail.
Synonyms: stagger, stumble, dodder, shuffle, shamble, falter, toddle, lurch
Antonyms: be still, calm, continue, correct, stabilize
Usage: She tottered off on her four-inch heel
3. Barbarism – absence of culture and civilization.
Synonyms: atrocity, barbarity, brutality, inhumanity, catachresis, coarseness
Antonyms: kindness, niceness, praise
Usage: War is the ultimate barbarism.
4. Murderous – extremely unpleasant
Synonyms: arduous, gruelling, strenuous, punishing, onerous, exhausting
Antonyms: pleasant, facile, tame, gentle
Usage: The team had a murderous schedule of four games in ten days
5. Impunity – exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.
Synonyms: immunity, dispensation, exception, exemption, liberty, privilege
Antonyms: denial, prohibition, imprisonment, incarceration
Usage: The impunity enjoyed by military officers implicated in civilian killings
6. Fanatic – filled with or expressing excessive zeal.
Synonyms: activist, bigot, devotee, enthusiast, extremist, fiend, freak, maniac
Antonyms: conservative, moderate
Usage: Because he is a football fanatic, he hasn’t missed any of his team’s home games in ten years.
7. Transpire – come to be known; be revealed.
Synonyms: arise, befall, ensue, betide, chance, develop, eventuate
Antonyms: stop, cause
Usage: The police sat in their cruiser and waited for a criminal act to transpire.
8. Anticipate – regard as probable; expect or predict.
Synonyms: assume, conjecture, divine, foreteprognosticate, prophesy
Antonyms: doubt, dread
Usage: If we follow the timeline, we anticipate we should have the project completed before Monday
9. Intertwine – twist or twine together.
Synonyms: convolute, entwine, interlace, interweave, braid, reticulate
Antonyms: untangle, untwist. disconnect. dissociate. divide
Usage: A net made of cotton intertwined with other natural fibres
10. Clandestine – kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
Synonyms: covert, fraudulent, surreptitious, cloak-and-dagger, illegitimate
Antonyms: aboveboard, authorized. honest.
Usage: From the van, the police watched as the clandestine drug deal occurred.