Trending Vocabulary for SSC and Bank Exam

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1. Wily

Meaning:skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully.

Synonym:shrewd, clever, sharp, sharp-witted, astute, canny,

Antonym:naive, guileless

Sentence:”his wily opponents”

2.Blatant

Meaning: (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly.

Synonym: flagrant, glaring, obvious, undisguised,

Sentence: “blatant lies”

3.Picaresque

Meaning: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a 

rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

Synonym:  dishonest, dishonorable

Sentence: “a picaresque adventure novel”

4.Pretentious

Meaning:attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is 

actually possessed.

Synonym:affected, ostentatious,

Antonym:natural, unaffected

Sentence: “pretentious art films”

5. Palaver

Meaning: prolonged and tedious fuss or discussion.

Synonym: bother, commotion, trouble, rigmarole, chatter

Sentence: “mucking around with finances and all that palaver”

6.Abhor

Meaning: to dislike (someone or something) very much

Synonym:Detest, abominate,loathe

Sentence: “abhors the way people leave their trash at the picnic sites in the park”

7.Rampage

Meaning: to act or move in a wild and usually destructive way

Synonym:Agitation,deliriousness, delirium  

Sentence: “Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.”

8.Trite

Meaning: not interesting or effective because of being used too often : not fresh or 

original

Synonym:stereotype, cobwebby, timeworn

Sentence: “ That argument has become trite.”

9.Charlatan

Meaning: a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill.

Synonym: quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, fake

Sentence: “a self-confessed con artist and charlatan”

10.Chameleon

Meaning:a small slow-moving Old World lizard with a prehensile tail, long extensible 

tongue, protruding eyes that rotate independently, and a highly developed ability to 

change colour., 

a person who changes their opinions or behaviour according to the situation.

Synonym: opportunist, temporizer, timeserver,

Sentence:”voters have misgivings about his performance as a political chameleon”