Trending Vocabulary for SSC and Bank Exam

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1.prejudice

Meaning:preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Synonym:preconception

Sentence:”male prejudices about women”

2. Solvent

Meaning: having assets in excess of liabilities; able to pay one’s debts.

Synonym: financially sound, able to pay one’s debts, debt-free

Antonym: in debt

Sentence: “interest rate rises have very severe effects on normally solvent companies”

3. Solicit

Meaning: ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone, accost someone and offer one’s or someone else’s services as a prostitute.

Synonym: request, apply for, put in for, seek, beg, plead for,

Antonym: forewarn, ward (off), warn; drive (away or off), repulse, turn away

Sentence: “he called a meeting to solicit their views”

“although prostitution was not itself an offence, soliciting was”

4. Recede

Meaning: Pull back or move away or backward

Synonym: subside, ebb, taper

Antonym: forge, ascend, prolong

Sentence: The unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older

5.Proclivity

Meaning: a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or 

predisposition towards a particular thing.

Synonym: liking, inclination, tendency, leaning, disposition, propensity,

Sentence: “a proclivity for hard work”

6. Diabolic 

Meaning: showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.

Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, 

Sentence: An idle mind is a Diabolic’s workshop.

7. Rancour 

Meaning:  a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.

Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment, reprisal.

Sentence:  Although my friend betrayed me, I have no rancor towards him.

8. Expatriate 

Meaning: a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country.

Synonyms: exile, expat

Sentence: The poet was exiled because he signed a letter protesting the government’s actions.

9. Chicanery 

Meaning:  the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Synonyms: chicane, guile, trickery, wile

Sentence: You can smell the chicanery from a dishonest politician like Lalu And Mulayam.

10. Retreat 

Meaning: the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)

Sentence: the disorderly retreat of Pakistani troops in Kargil war.