1. TOTTER -लडखड़ाना
Meaning: Move without being stable, as if threatening to fall
Synonyms:shake, zigzag
Antonyms:calm, fix
Example: You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage.
2. GLISTEN- चमकना
Meaning:To reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow
Synonyms:flicker, glow
Antonyms:dull
Example: My hair glistens in the hot bright lights.
3. DINGY
Meaning: Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Synonyms:dirty, drab
Antonyms:bright, clean
Example: I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red hot brick chimney.
4.FURTIVE
Meaning: Done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed
Synonyms: shady, sneaky
Antonyms: honest, open
Example:The look in his eyes became furtive
5. SCALD
Meaning:To burn the skin with boiling liquid or steam
Synonyms: blanch, heat
Antonyms: freeze, laud
Example:I dropped a pan of boiling water and scalded my leg.
6. WHITTLE
Meaning:To make something from a piece of wood by cutting off small, thin pieces
Synonyms: trim, erode
Antonyms: extend, increase
Example: An old sailor sat on the dockside, whittling a toy boat.
7. VANITY
Meaning:Excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being
Synonyms: arrogant, pride
Antonyms: modest, humble
Example: He wants the job purely for reasons of vanity and ambition.
8. PRETENSION
Meaning:A claim or belief that you can succeed or that you are important or have serious value
Synonyms: conceit, snobbery
Antonyms: modesty, honesty
Example:The Chronicle has pretensions to being a serious newspaper.
9. ASTOUNDING
Meaning:Very surprising or shocking
Synonyms: shocking, astonish
Antonyms: clarify, dull
Example:To call Wild an emotional film would be an egregious disservice to its astounding journey to screen.
10.DIMINISH
Meaning:To make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc
Synonyms: dicrease, reduce
Antonyms: increase, extend
Example:He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish.
