1. Prevaricate
• Speak or act in an evasive way. To lie or mislead.
Usage: He seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions.
2. Excruciating
• Intensely painful.
Usage: To relieve his excruciating pain, doctors administered a sedative.
• Very embarrassing, awkward, or tedious.
Usage: He explained the procedure in excruciating detail.
3. Abdication
• Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority. Abdications have played various roles in the succession procedures of monarchies.
Usage: Japan’s Emperor Akihito declared his abdication in a historic ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.
4. Misconstrue
• Interpret a person’s words or actions wrongly.
Usage: My advice was deliberately misconstrued.
5. Semblance
• The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different.
Usage: She tried to force her thoughts back into some semblance of order.
6. Milch
• Denoting a cow or other domestic mammal giving or kept for milk.
Usage: There should be no direct opening from any silo or grain pit into the room in which the milch cows are kept.
7. Tory (Political philosophy)
• A Tory is a person who holds a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalism and conservatism, which upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved in the English culture throughout history.
• A supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative.
Usage: Sarah Atherton became the first female Welsh Tory MP after taking Wrexham from Labour in the early hours of Friday morning.
8. Stymie
• Prevent or hinder the progress of.
Usage: The changes must not be allowed to stymie new medical treatments.
9. Perversity
• A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable or unacceptable way.
Usage: They responded with typical perversity.
10. Corroborating evidence
• Corroborating evidence is evidence that tends to support a proposition that is already supported by some initial evidence, therefore confirming the proposition.
Usage: Factors included things like the number of accusers and whether there was corroborating evidence.
