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Anamalous
Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
- Syn: Exceptional, atypical, unusual, aberrant
- Ant: Normal, regular, customary, typical, ordinary
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Aspersion
A damaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering of defaming
- Syn: Innuendo, calumny, denigration
- Ant: Endorsement, testimonial, praise
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Bizarre
Extremely strange, unusual, atypical
- Syn: Grotesque, fantastic, outlandish
- Ant: Normal, typical, ordinary, expected
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Brusque
Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
- Syn: Curt, tactless, ungracious, gruff, rough
- Ant: Gracious, tactful, courteous, diplomatic
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Cajole
To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
- Syn: Wheedle, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk
- Ant: Coerce, force, strong-arm
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Castigate
To punish severely; to criticize severely
- Syn: Chastise, rebuke, censure, upbraid
- Ant: Reward, honor, praise, laud
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Contrive
To plan with ingenuity, invent; to bring about as th result of a scheme or plan
Syn: Think up, devise, concoct, fabricate
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Demagogue
A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
Syn: Rabble-rouser, firebrand
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Disabuse
To free from deception or error, set right in ideas ot thinking
- Syn: undeceive, enlighten, set straight
- Ant: deceive, delude, pull woll over one's eyes
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Ennui
Weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom
- Syn: languor, world-weariness, listlessness
- Ant: Enthusiasm, liveliness, excitement, intensity
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Fetter
A chain or shackle placed on the feet; anything that confines or restrains; to chain or shackle, to render helpless or impotent
- Syn: bond, restraint, bind, hamper
- Ant: free, liberate, emancipate
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Heinous
Very wicked, offensive, hateful
- Syn: Evil, odious, abominable, outrageous
- Ant: excellent, wonderful, splendid
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Immutable
Not subject to change, constant
- Syn: Unchangable, unalterable, fixed, invariable
- Ant: changable, inconstant, variable, fickle
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Insurgent
One who rebels or rises against authority; rising in revolt, refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in or on
- Syn: revolutionary, rebellious, mutinous
- Ant: Loyalist, loyal, faithful
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Megalomania
A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality
- Syn: delusions of grandeur
- Ant: humility, modesty, self-abasement
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Sinecure
A position requiring little or no work; an easy job
Syn: "now show" job, cushy job, "plum"
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Surreptitious
Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or accomplished by fraud
- Syn: furtive, covert, clandestine, concealed
- Ant: open, frank, aboveboard, overt
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Transgress
To go beyond a limit or boundry; to sin, violate a law
- Syn: overstep, exceed, trespass, err
- Ant: obey, toe the line
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Transmute
To change from one nature, substance, or form to another
- Syn: transform, convert, translate, metamorphose
- Ant: Maintain unchanged, preserve
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Vicarious
Performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another
- Syn: surrogate, substitute, imagined, secondhand
- Ant: real, actual, firsthand
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