Vocabulary

1.Amalgamate
Meaning: combine or unite to form one organization or structure.
Synonym: combine, merge, unite,
Antonym: separate
Sentence: “he amalgamated his company with another”

2.Pedantic
Meaning: excessively concerned with minor details or rules; over scrupulous.
Synonym: abstruse, pompous, stilted, academic
Antonym: informal, plain
Sentence: “his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic”

3.Exorbitant
Meaning: (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high.
Synonym: extortionate, preposterous
Antonym: reasonable, competitive
Sentence: “some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls”

4.Bourgeois
Meaning: belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
Synonym: middle-class, property-owning,
Antonym: proletarian, unconventional
Sentence: “a rich, bored, bourgeois family”

5.Obsequious
Meaning: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
Synonym: sycophantic, servile
Antonym: domineering
Sentence: “they were served by obsequious waiters”