Example: The exception had remained an anomaly because Section 375 itself mandated that sex with a girl below 18 years of age, with or without her consent, was statutory rape.
1. Anomaly [uh-nom-uh-lee]
Noun: a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form; an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.; an incongruity or inconsistency.
Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, deviation, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, rarity, departure, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, peculiarity, unorthodoxy, unconformity.
Antonyms: conformity, normality, regularity, sameness.
2. Statutory [stach-oo-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
Adjective: of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute; prescribed or authorized by statute; conforming to statute.
Synonyms: lawful, legal, judicial, rightful.
Antonyms: illegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful.
Example: Humans are not unerring. Often enough, perfectly rational people tend to behave irrationally, as any salesman or advertiser would attest.
3. Unerring [uhn-ur-ing, -er-]
Adjective: not erring; not going astray or missing the mark; undeviatingly accurate throughout; not containing any error or flaw; invariably precise or correct.
Synonyms: certain, errorless, exact, faultless, impeccable, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, invariable, just, perfect, reliable, sure, true, trustworthy.
Antonyms: erring, imperfect, inaccurate, mistaken.
4. Attest [uh-test]
Verb: to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity; to give proof or evidence of; manifest.
Synonyms: authenticate, corroborate, demonstrate, indicate, substantiate, swear, verify, adjure, announce, argue, assert, aver, certify, confirm, countersign, declare, display, exhibit, prove, ratify, seal, show.
Antonyms: conceal, disprove, hide, abstain.
Example: He went on to show that even small departures from rationality have outsized impacts, and that limitedly rational humans don’t fit neatly into classical economics.
5. Outsize [out-sahyz]
Noun: an uncommon or irregular size, especially one larger than average; a garment of such a size.
Adjective: Also, outsized. Being unusually or abnormally large, heavy, extensive, etc.
Example: So, he helped develop a new branch of economics, behavioural economics, to study the interplay of human quirks and economic forces.
6. Interplay [noun in-ter-pley; verb in-ter-pley, in-ter-pley]
Noun: reciprocal relationship, action, or influence:
The interplay of plot and character.
Verb: to exert influence on each other.
Synonyms: give-and-take, coaction, exchange, mesh, meshing, reciprocation, reciprocity, teamwork, transaction, networking, team play, tit for tat.
7. Quirk [kwurk]
Noun: a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism; a shift, subterfuge, or evasion; quibble; a sudden twist or turn; a flourish or showy stroke, as in writing.
Synonyms: aberration, characteristic, eccentricity, foible, habit, idiosyncrasy, kink, mannerism, peculiarity, trait, twist, vagary, caprice, conceit, crotchet, equivocation, fancy, fetish, humor, irregularity, knack, quibble, singularity, subterfuge.
Antonyms: normality, usualness, inability.
Example: The recent order by the Supreme Court, temporarily banning the sale of firecrackers in the National Capital Region in order to prevent a worsening of air quality, is a small step to mitigate the gargantuan menace of pollution.
8. Mitigate [mit-i-geyt]
Verb: to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate; to make less severe.
Synonyms: allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, dull, ease, lessen, mollify, reduce, relieve, soften, soothe, temper, weaken, abate, appease, calm, cool, extenuate, moderate, modify.
Antonyms: aggravate, agitate, extend, increase.
9. Gargantuan [gahr-gan-choo-uh n]
Adjective: gigantic; enormous; colossal.
Synonyms: colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, humongous, immense, mammoth, massive, monstrous, monumental, prodigious, towering, tremendous, vast, big.
Antonyms: common, dwarfed, insignificant, little.
10. Menace [men-is]
Noun: something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat; a person whose actions, attitudes, or ideas are considered dangerous or harmful.
Synonyms: hazard, peril, plague, risk, threat, annoyance, caution, commination, intimidation, jeopardy, nuisance, scare, thunder, trouble, troublemaker, warning.
Antonyms: certainty, safety, surety, comfort.
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