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Austere

Adjective
 Meaning

• Severe in manner or appearance, Uncompromising, Strict, Forbidding
• Rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral,  Ascetic, Abstinent

Bedlam

Noun
Meaning

• A scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
• An insane asylum or madhouse

Daunt

Verb
Meaning

• To overcome with fear; intimidate
• To lessen the courage of,  dishearten

Antithesis

Noun

Meaning

• opposition; contrast:
• the direct opposite

Upsurge

Verb

Meaning

• to surge up; increase; rise

Noun

Meaning

• the act of surging up; a large or rapid increase: