Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017 Exam

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Dear Students, we are providing to you Vocabulary Words from The HINDU Newspaper. We suggest you read a newspaper daily. In case if you are not able to read The Hindu, we will post important words every day from editorial section. These vocab words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.

1.Pedantic

Meaning: excessively concerned with minor details or rules; over scrupulous.

Synonym: abstruse, pompous, stilted, academic

Antonym: informal, plain

Sentence: “his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic”

2.Amalgamate

Meaning: combine or unite to form one organization or structure.

Synonym: combine, merge, unite,

Antonym: separate

Sentence: “he amalgamated his company with another”

3.Renegade

Meaning: a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

Synonym: traitor, defector, deserter, turncoat

Antonym: follower

Sentence: “an agent who later turns out to be a renegade”

4.Encroachment

Meaning: intrusion on a person’s territory, rights, etc

Synonym: intrusion into, trespass on, invasion of

Antonym: ignore  give, keep of

Sentence: “minor encroachments on our individual liberties”

5.Malevolent

Meaning: having or showing a wish to do evil to others

Synonym: malicious, spiteful, hostile,

Antonym: benevolent

Sentence: “the glint of dark, malevolent eyes”

6.Divulge

Meaning: make known (private or sensitive information)

Synonym: disclose, reveal,

Antonym: conceal

Sentence: “I am too much of a gentleman to divulge her age”

7.Imperturbable

Meaning: unable to be upset or excited; calm.

Synonym: self-possessed, composed,

Antonym: edgy, excitable

Sentence:  “an imperturbable tranquility”

8.Exorbitant

Meaning: (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high.

Synonym: extortionate, preposterous

Antonym: reasonable, competitive

Sentence: “some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls”

9.Clandestine

Meaning: kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.

Synonym: secret, covert, furtive, surreptitious,

Antonym: open, above board

Sentence: “she deserved better than these clandestine meetings”

10.Cajole

Meaning: persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery.

Synonym: persuade, wheedle, coax,

Antonym: bully

Sentence: “he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house”

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