Daily Vocabulary Words 10th January 2023: Improve Your Vocabulary with Antonyms & Synonyms

Daily Vocabulary Words: For most banking Aspirants, vocabulary is a nightmare but it carries a great amount of importance in every competitive exam. It is very important to have a good hold on the vocabulary to increase efficiency in the language section and also to increase your overall scores. That is why Adda247 has started a new initiative to improve the vocabulary of the aspirants with Visual vocabulary words and their meanings.

Daily Vocabulary Words

1. Decimate (verb)
Meaning; To destroy

Synonyms: destroy, annihilate
Antonyms: build, construct
2. Abstruse (adjective)
Meaning; Difficult to comprehend or understand

Synonyms: rarefied, obscure
Antonyms: clear, evident

3. Paranoid (noun)
Meaning; Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others

Synonyms: suspicious, insecure
Antonyms: firm, secure

4. Stride (noun)
Meaning; To walk with long steps

Synonyms: progress, advance
Antonyms: failure, drop
5. Proclivity (noun)
Meaning; A predisposition or natural inclination

Synonyms: like, love
Antonyms: dislike, hate
6. Ingenuity (adjective)
Meaning; The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

Synonyms: creativity, innovation
Antonyms: ordinary, usual

7. Reckon (verb)
Meaning; To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

Synonyms: consider
Antonyms: avoid

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Importance of Vocabulary Words in the English Language

• The reading comprehension from which 50% of the English language section questions are based requires the candidate to have good reading skills and requires a good hold on the English vocabulary. A good vocabulary will give the candidates of a better understanding of comprehension which will benefit them in scoring maximum marks.
• A good vocabulary also helps a candidate to crack the interview round of the banking exams. The candidate can form a sentence perfectly if he/she has a good vocabulary.
• Apart from the reading comprehension section, there are multiple English tests where vocabulary can be used.