The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS 2017 |

Dear Readers,

Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few lines from The Hindu.

Example: The Army on Friday said five more armed infiltrators were killed in Baramulla’s Uri sector near the Line of Control, taking the death toll of militants to 12 in operations since Tuesday night.

1. Infiltrator [in-fil-treyt-er]

Noun: The one who infiltrates.
Synonym: spy, mole.

2. Toll [tohl]

Noun: a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge; the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity.
Synonyms: cost, expense, levy, payment, price, rate.

Example: A major tragedy was averted after an Air India plane from Delhi with 134 passengers on board suffered a brake failure on landing here and skidded beyond the runway before coming to a halt at the end of the strip.

3. Skid [skid]

Noun: a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along; one of a number of such logs or timbers forming a skidway.
Synonyms: drift, glide, slip, swerve, veer, move.

3. Halt [hawlt]

Verb: to stop; cease moving, operating, etc., either permanently or temporarily; to cause to stop temporarily or permanently; bring to a stop.
Noun: a temporary or permanent stop.
Synonyms: cutoff, freeze, interruption, layoff, letup, pause, standstill.
Antonyms: continuation, beginning, , t, endurance, go.

5. Strip [strip]

Verb: to deprive of covering; to deprive of clothing; make bare or naked; to take away or remove.
Synonyms: band, bar, belt, bit, fillet, layer, ribbon.
Antonym: whole.

Example: Footfall of tourists from Gujarat to the Kashmir Valley has fallen significantly this year.

6. Footfall [foo t-fawl]

Noun: a footstep; the sound of footsteps.
Synonyms: stride, footprint, footstep, gait, impression, mark.

Example: Tourism players in Kashmir blame “negative campaign” by right wing groups on the social media, besides the unrest, for the 85% slump in the sector.

7. Slump [sluhmp]

Verb: to drop or fall heavily; collapse; to assume a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture.
Synonyms: collapse, crash, depreciation, dip, downtrend, downturn.
Antonyms: ascent, increase, rise, blessing, boon, happiness.

Example: This year it has come down to a trickle,” Farooq Kuthoo, secretary-general of the Travel Agents’ Association of Kashmir, told The Hindu.

8. Trickle [trik-uh l]

Verb: to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream; to come, go, or pass bit by bit, slowly, or irregularly.
Synonyms: crawl, creep, dribble, flow, leak, ooze.
Antonyms: pour, flow.

Example: Counting the strides.

9. Stride [strahyd]

Verb: to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance; to take a long step; to straddle.
Synonyms: stalk, stomp, traipse, tramp, clump, drill, march.

Example: No one would deny that Pakistan is a particularly misogynistic country, where patriarchal relations and attitudes discriminate heavily against women.

10. Misogynistic [mi-soj-uh-nis-tik, mahy‐]