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Words of the Week


Havoc – As noun –

Chaos / mess / calamity / Catastrophe / jumble / confusion

Antonym – order / system / blessing / construction

As verb –

loot / plunder / ravage / despoil

Antonym – build / create




Jitters – anxiety / shakes / shivers / butterflies

Antonym – calmness / composer

It is a noun.




Sacrosanct – sacred / holy / venerated

Antonym – blasphemous / irreverent

It is an adjective.



Vroom – hurry / race / rush / dash

It is a verb.





Logjam – congestion / bottleneck / jam / halt

Antonym – continuation / advance

It is a noun.





Cuddle – caress / curl up / bundle / smuggle / clasp

Antonym – release / push away / shrink / shy


It is a verb.




Seminal – influential / important / ground -breaking / original

Antonym – unproductive / unoriginal

It is an adjective.




Heiress – successor / beneficiary / assignee / inherotress / co – heiress / A person who inherits possessions

Antonym – giver / payer


It is a noun.


Nix – reject / refuse / decline / veto / dismiss


Antonym – grant / approve / allow / let


It is a noun.


Niggardly

As adjective –

stingy / miserly / parsimonious / penurious / scarce



Antonym – munificent / generous


As adverb –

Stingily / odiously / meagerly / insufficiently / abominably

Antonym – tolerably / adequately



Culmination – Pinnacle / zenith / apex / climax / peak



Antonym – bottom / minimum / anticlimax / nadir



It is a noun.




Reciprocity – cooperation / exchange / peace / collaboration

Antonym – hostility / antipathy



It is a noun.

##Home Task- 1. Make sentences with these words.

2. Try to change the parts of speech of these words.