1. Spike – a sharp increase in the magnitude or concentration of something.
Synonyms: enlargement, multiplication, elevation, swelling, augmentation
Antonyms: decrease, reduction
Usage: The oil price spike
2. Tandem – one following or behind the other
Synonyms: together, concurrently, collectively, concurrence
Antonyms: single
Usage: They moved in tandem without looking at each other, their movements controlled and efficient.
3. Calibrate – to determine, check, or rectify
Synonyms: balance, correct, improve, overhaul, readjust, regulate, tighten
Antonyms: disorganize, break, damage, destroy
Usage: The doctor will calibrate her oxygen level by blowing air into a tube that is attached to a computer.
4. Dismantle – to disassemble or pull down; take apart
Synonyms: demolish, destroy, wreck, annihilate, bankrupt, denudate
Antonyms: build, construct, create, repair
Usage: The engines were dismantled and the bits piled into a heap
5. Sprang – move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards.
Synonyms: bounce, hop, hurdle, rebound, startle, recoil
Usage: I sprang out of bed
6. Toe – to stand, walk, etc., with the toes in a specified position.
Synonyms: appendage, dactyl, digit, phalanges
Usage: If one of his steel-toed boots connected with her head, she’d be dead.
7. Strident – (of a sound) loud and harsh; grating.
Synonyms: raucous, rough, grating, rasping, jarring, stentorian
Antonyms: quiet, silent, soft
Usage: His voice had become increasingly strident
8. Distortion – the action of giving a misleading account or impression.
Synonyms: perversion, twisting, falsification, manipulation; garbling, travesty
Antonyms: beauty, clarity, perfection
Usage: We’re fed up with the media’s continuing distortion of our issues
9. Cripple – cause (someone) to become unable to walk or move properly.
Synonyms: debilitate, hamstring, immobilize, incapacitate, stifle, attenuate
Antonyms: mobilize, strengthen, capacitate
Usage: A young student was crippled for life
10. Firebrand – a person who is very passionate about a particular cause.
Synonyms: radical, revolutionary. agitator, demagogue, protestor
Antonyms: soother, calmer
Usage: BJP Names Hindutva Firebrand Yogi Adityanath as Uttar Pradesh CM.