1. Fraught – filled with (something undesirable)
Synonyms: charged, replete, abounding, attended, bristling, laden, stuffed
Antonyms: empty
Usage: Their world is fraught with danger.
2. Corroborate – confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding).
Synonyms: authenticate, substantiate, validate, certify, endorse, establish
Antonyms: disprove, invalidate, veto, contradict
Usage: I prayed my friend would corroborate the lie I told my parents!
3. Conducive – making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible.
Synonyms: avourable, valuable, advantageous, opportune, propitious
Antonyms: useless, worthless, adverse, discouraging, hindering
Usage: Your negative attitude is not conducive to a good relationship.
4. Scuttle – run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps.
Synonyms: scamper, scurry, scramble, bustle, skip, trot, hasten
Antonyms: decelerate, crawl, drag
Usage: A mouse scuttled across the floor.
5. Artifice – a clever trick.
Synonyms: contrivance, gimmick, expedient, gambit, machination, maneuver
Antonyms: honesty, artlessness, candor, frankness
Usage: The magician’s illusion was nothing but a cleverly designed artifice.
6. Meretricious – apparently attractive but having no real value.
Synonyms: blatant, brazen, counterfeit, spurious, pretentious,
Antonyms: genuine, unembellished
Usage: This writer usually writes with such a meretricious style that his books are only published in paperback.
7. Adroit – clever or skilful.
Synonyms: adept, artful, deft, masterful, nimble, dexterous, astute
Antonyms: awkward, clumsy, ignorant. incompetent. ineptunable
Usage: He was adroit at tax avoidance
8. Scrunch – make a loud crunching noise.
Synonyms: compress, rumple, squash, squeeze, crumple up
Antonyms: expand, uncompress
Usage: The dry leaves scrunched under our feet.
9. Expanse – a wide continuous area of something.
Synonyms: stretch, swathe, vastness, amplitude, immensity
Antonyms: extreme, limitation
Usage: The city park is a beautiful expanse of green in the center of town.
10. Reverberate – repeated several times as an echo
Synonyms: echo, resound, react, rebound, recoil, redound
Antonyms: quieten
Usage: Her voice reverberated around the classroom