Junior and Superior

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Junior adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.

Usage example: junior advisers to the governor

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Superior is an antonym for junior in topics: younger, subordinate.

Superior adjective - Having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude.

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Junior is an antonym for superior in person higher or highest in rank topic.

Fire Forged Friendship may lead to this; the junior having won the superior's respect in combat, the superior will listen.

Source: With Due Respect
A scene where the detectives and their superior compare notes about the case with the junior prosecutor.

Source: Series / Law & Order
Likewise, the junior is supposed to first offer whatever relevant information they have that their superior does not already possess, then shut up and do what they're ordered to.

Source: With Due Respect

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