1) Swerve – to change direction suddenly

 The car swerved to avoid the child.

 2) Eleemosynary – things related to charitable giving

 Monetary donations to eleemosynary institutes are tax deductible.

 3) Torpid – inactive

 Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.

4) Abstruse – things are difficult to understand because they are deep and highly intellectual

 Unable to decipher the abstruse writing , I shook my head.

 5) Assiduous – working very hard and taking care everything is done well

 He has been very assiduous in his research.

 6) Surcease – ending, cessation

 Let us surcease today’s conversation

 7) Fatuous – lacking intelligence , silly and pointless

 A fatuous comment.

 8) Imprudence – lack of care and thoughtfulness

 His imprudence of investing all his saving in a risky venture nearly ruined him.

 9) Machiavellian – cunning , unscrupulous 

 If you want to be Machiavellian, do not expect to enjoy long career.

 10) Murky – dark and unpleasant 

 The water in the river looked very murky.