How to use this set?
- Slide through the words in the first go and try to guess the meaning of the word.
- After the first cycle, flip to view the meanings of those words you do not know.
- Flip through the set again and try to remember the meanings/synonyms/antonyms you have just learnt.
- Repeat the cycle till you perfect it.
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Go backwards; recede; reverting; degenerate; deteriorate; adj.
Synonyms:
Backward, Worsening, Catabolic, Lapsing
Antonyms:
Forward, Positive
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Taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax); (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future
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Retrospective, Reviewing, Backward-looking, Pensive
Antonyms:
Negligent, Shallow
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Deserved punishment for wrongdoing; payback for another’s action vengeance
Synonyms:
Counterblow, Reprisal, Revenge, Reward
Antonyms:
Sympathy, Forgiveness
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Cut down; cut down expenses; economize
Synonyms:
Curtail, Abbreviate, Truncate, Scrimp
Antonyms:
Abridge, Confine
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Withdraw; take back; draw back; ex. Retract a statement/an offer/claws
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Abjure, Retrograde, Suspend, Revoke
Antonyms:
Corroborate, Emphasize
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Following; suite; entourage
Synonyms:
Crew, Procession, Band, Cortege
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Holding; able to retain things (esp. Facts in the mind); having a good memory
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Brainy, Intelligent, Master-mind, Imbibing
Antonyms:
Dull, Impermeable
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Get even with someone; v. Retaliate
Synonyms:
Revenge, Recompense, Strike-back, Retrospect
Antonyms:
Forgive, Sympathize
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Revive; bring back to life or consciousness; ex. Resuscitate the drowned child
Synonyms:
Arouse, Revitalize, Invigorate, Resurrect
Antonyms:
Divide, Disperse
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Revive, to raise from the dead(bring to life again)
Synonyms:
Solace, Energize, Enliven, Renovate
Antonyms:
Divide, Disperse