Daily Vocabulary Words 16 & 17 January 2024: Improve Your Vocabulary with Antonyms & Synonyms

Daily Vocabulary Words 2024

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.

Vocabulary Words With Antonyms & Synonyms

1. Decency (noun)
Meaning; The quality of being decent; propriety.

Antonyms: indecency, impropriety
Synonyms: molarity, propriety
2. Genre(noun)
Meaning; A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.

Antonyms; nonclassical, monophonic
Synonyms; kind, variety
3. Proselytize(verb)
Meaning; To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert

Synonyms; campaigner, crusader
Antonyms; dissuade, non partisan

4. Quaint (Adjective)
Meaning; Strange or odd; unusual.

Synonyms; peculiar, strange
Antonyms; common, ordinary
5. Summon(verb)
Meaning; To call people together; to convene.

Antonyms; send, ignore
Synonyms; ask, order
6. Inferno (noun)
Meaning; A large fire, a conflagration.

Antonyms; ordered, disciplined
Synonyms; disordered, tumultuous
7. Stagger(verb)
Meaning; Doubt, waver, be shocked.

Antonyms; usual, simple
Synonyms; surprising, astounding

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Importance of Vocabulary Words in the English Language

• The reading comprehension on which 50% of the English language section questions are based requires the candidate to have good reading skills and requires a good hold of the English vocabulary. A good vocabulary will give the candidates 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.