Vocabulary

1. PROMULGATE (Verb)
Meaning:  promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).
Synonyms : publicize, spread, communicate, propagate, disseminate,
Antonym : collect, conceal, hide, repress
Usage: Counties, townships, and municipalities may also promulgate local ordinances.
2.  IMINUTION (Noun)
Meaning: a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something.
Synonyms : curtailment, contraction, constriction, restriction, limitation
Antonym : increase, expansion, growth
Usage: The diminution of cafeteria monitors has resulted in an increase in food fights at the high school.
3.DOWNTRODDEN (adjective)
Meaning:   Oppressed or treated badly by people in power.
Synonyms : persecuted, exploited, repressed, tyrannized.
Antonym : protected, respected, guarded, favored.
Usage:  His claim to be a representative of the downtrodden masses is, of course, completely bogus.
4. IMPERATIVE (adjective)
Meaning: Of vital importance; crucial.
Synonyms :  indispensable, exigent, essential, urgent.
Antonyms : negligible, insignificant, trivial, secondary.
Usage: It is imperative that couples should communicate in order to know the root of the conflict.
5. CONDIGN (adjective)
Meaningappropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved.
Synonyms : earned, merited, warranted, justified.
Antonyms: undeserved, undue, unfair, unjust.
Usage:  Condign punishment was rare when the criminal was a man of high social standing.