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: Princes, Ministers arrested in Saudi Arabia purge.

1. Purge [purj] 
Verb: to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify; to clear of imputed guilt or ritual uncleanliness; to cause evacuation of the bowels of (a person); to become cleansed or purified.
Noun: the act or process of purging; the removal or elimination of members of a political organization, government, nation, etc., who are considered disloyal or otherwise undesirable.
Synonyms: coup, evacuation, expulsion, extermination, liquidation, suppression, abolition, catharsis, clarification, cleaning, cleanup, crushing, disposal, disposition, ejection, eradication, excretion, expurgation, extirpation, murder, purification, abstersion, reign of terror, witch hunt.
Antonyms: dirtying, holding, keeping, maintenance.


Example: Separately, the head of the Saudi National Guard, once a leading contender to the throne, as well as the Navy chief and the Economy Minister were replaced in a series of high-profile sackings that sent shock waves through the kingdom.

2. Contend [kuh n-tend] 
Verb: to struggle in opposition; to strive in rivalry; compete; vie; to strive in debate; dispute earnestly.
Related forms: cotender, noun.
Synonyms: adversary, challenger, competition, contestant, opponent, rival.
Antonyms: ally, associate, helper.

3. Sacking [sak-ing] 
Noun: stout, coarse woven material of hemp, jute, or the like, chiefly for sacks.
Synonyms: wasting, burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, pillage, plunder, ransacking, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sacking, spoliation, stealing, theft, despoiling, laying waste, marauding.
Antonyms: boon, construction, goodness, miracle.

Example: However, Justice R.M. Lodha utilised the occasion to pass a succinct and categoric direction, hopefully the forerunner of a game changer for cleaner politics in India.

4. Succinct [suh k-singkt] 
Adjective: expressed in few words; concise; terse; characterized by conciseness or verbal brevity; compressed into a small area, scope, or compass.
Synonyms: blunt, concise, curt, pithy, terse, boiled down, breviloquent, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, condensed, cut to the bone, in a nutshell, in few words, laconic, short, summary.
Antonyms: lengthy, long-winded, polite, wordy.

5. Forerunner [fawr-ruhn-er, fohr-, fawr-ruhn-er, fohr-] 
Noun: predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor; an omen, sign, or indication of something to follow; portent; a person who goes or is sent in advance to announce the coming of someone or something that follows; herald; harbinger.
Synonyms: precursor, advertiser, advocate, ancestor, announcer, author, envoy, harbinger, initiator, originator, pioneer, progenitor, prognostic, prototype, forebearer, foregoer.
Antonym: result.

Example: They want to know how many of the 1,581 cases involving mlas and mps (as declared in their nomination papers to the 2014 elections) had been disposed of within the time frame of one year, and how many of these ended in conviction.

6. Disposed [dih-spohzd] 
Adjective: having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive).
Synonyms: biased, game, given, minded, predisposed, ready, subject, willing, apt, at drop of hat, fain, game for, liable, likely, of a mind to, partial, prone, tending toward.
Antonyms: disinclined, unprepared, unready, unwilling.

7. Conviction [kuh n-vik-shuh n] 
Noun: a fixed or firm belief; the act of convicting someone, as in a court of law; a declaration that a person is guilty of an offense; the state of being convicted.
Synonyms: confidence, faith, feeling, principle, sentiment, view, creed, doctrine, dogma, eye, mind, persuasion, reliance, slant, tenet, judgment call, say so.
Antonyms: distrust, doubt, disbelief, unbelief.

Example: The argument that we will be somehow breaching the law of equality by creating special courts to try this lot can be brushed aside; Article 14 permits classification based on criteria and nexus; mps and mlas form a distinct class and their early trial is a democratic must.

8. Breach [breech] 
Noun: the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture; an infraction or violation, as of a law, trust, faith, or promise; a gap made in a wall, fortification, line of soldiers, etc.; rift; fissure.
Verb: to make a breach or opening in; to break or act contrary to (a law, promise, etc.).
Synonyms: breach, violate, contravene, disobey, disregard, infract, infringe, offend, transgress, renege on.
Antonyms: obey, regard, agree, allow.

9. Nexus [nek-suh s] 
Noun: a means of connection; tie; link; a connected series or group; the core or center, as of a matter or situation.
Synonyms: center, connection, core, link, network, tie, union.
Antonyms: divorce, exterior, exteriority, outside.

Example: There is thus a large pool of judges of integrity and experience to choose from.

10. Integrity [in-teg-ri-tee] 
Noun: adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty; the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished; a sound, unimpaired, or perfect condition.
Synonyms: honesty, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, sincerity, virtue, candor, forthrightness, goodness, honestness, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, righteousness, straightforwardness.
Antonyms: deceit, dishonesty, corruption, disgrace.