abrogate
SYNONYMS: annul, revoke
ANTONYMS: reaffirm, renew, ratify
burnish
SYNONYMS: shine, buff
ANTONYMS: tarnish, dull, abrade
cabal
SYNONYMS: clique, ring, gang, plot, conspiracy
asperity
SYNONYMS: rigor, harshness
ANTONYMS: mildness, blandness, softness, lenience
delectable
SYNONYMS: delicious, scrumptious
ANTONYMS: repugnant, repulsive, distasteful
deprecate
SYNONYMS: deplore, frown upon
ANTONYMS: smile on, countenance, approve
detritus
SYNONYMS: debris, wreckage, ruins, rubble
ebullient
SYNONYMS: exhilarated, elated, exuberant
ANTONYMS: gloomy, morose, sullen, apathetic, blase
eclectic
SYNONYMS: selective, synthetic, pick-and-choose
ANTONYMS: uniform, monolithic
flaccid
SYNONYMS: soft, flabby
ANTONYMS: hard, firm, solid
impecunious
SYNONYMS: penniless, impoverished, indigent
ANTONYMS: affluent, wealthy, prosperous, rich
inexorable
SYNONYMS: inescapable, ineluctable, obdurate
ANTONYMS: avoidable, yielding, pliant
moribund
SYNONYMS: obsolescent
ANTONYMS: flourishing, thriving
necromancer
SYNONYMS: sorcerer, conjurer
onerous
SYNONYMS: oppressive, weighty
ANTONYMS: light, easy, undemanding, untaxing
rife
SYNONYMS: devoid of, lacking
rudiments
SYNONYMS: fundamentals, basics
sequester
SYNONYMS: seclude, segregate, isolate, closet
winnow
SYNONYMS: sift, strain, filter, sort