1. DOVETAIL (VERB): link, fit together
Synonyms: coincide, conform
Antonyms: clash, differ
Example Sentence:
The novel is structurally daring, managing to dovetail the perspectives of both boys.
2. CONCORDAT (NOUN): agreement
Synonyms: pact, deal Antonyms: disagreement, misunderstanding
Example Sentence:
This was a rupture of the concordat, and was so regarded by Napoleon.
3. REAM (NOUN): heap
Synonyms: bundle, stack Antonyms: individual, lack
Example Sentence:
This year’s survey included a ream of questions about returning-veteran violence.
4. FAZE (VERB): embarrass
Synonyms: annoy, confound Antonyms: encourage, enlighten
Example Sentence:
None of this has seemed to faze the journalist, who, this fashion season, displayed her trademark ability to excite and infuriate.
5. MOPE (VERB): pout, be dejected
Synonyms: brood, sulk Antonyms: praise, please
Example Sentence:
For days we were utterly inconsolable, doing nothing but mope morning, noon, and night.
6. SQUISH (VERB): squash
Synonyms: crush, mash Antonyms: lose, uncompressed
Example Sentence:
Any dish in my kitchen will benefit from a squish of lemon, lime, orange or grapefruit, and so I always have them on hand.
7. COCKLE (NOUN): shell
Synonyms: ripple, pucker Antonyms: smoothness, evenness
Example Sentence:
The appearance of cockle Hall was, indeed, as his mother had very properly informed him, ludicrous in the extreme.
8. TAMPER (VERB): interfere, alter
Synonyms: meddle, tinker Antonyms: improve, remain
Example Sentence:
There was something in the hearts of his people with which he dare not tamper.
9. ACCLIMATE (VERB): make or become adjusted, adapted
Synonyms: accustom, accommodate Antonyms: soften
Example Sentence:
They did not have much time to pull their lives together and acclimate themselves to English culture.
10. GROTESQUE (ADJECTIVE): ugly, misshapen
Synonyms: eerie, absurd Antonyms: familiar, usual
Example Sentence:
I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.