Bingo games are nice for synonyms and antonyms and for homophones. If you choose to have teams working on their own, you can use gapped sentences instead of definitions. Students, in teams, have to put them in given categories or categories of their own choosing. Set a time limit. Then compare the teams results and discuss discrepancies and mistakes.
Award points for each complete and correct list of words.
Put the easy ones at the beginning of the list. Abstract notions need not be excluded. Divide the class into teams of about five people. At the beginning of the game, each team sends an ambassador to the teacher, who gives the first word. The ambassadors go back to their team and mime the word.