Daily Vocabulary Words 21st September 2022: 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. Hoary (adjective)

Meaning; Old or old-fashioned.

Synonyms: old, ancient

Antonyms: new, modern

2. Dormant (adjective)

        Meaning; Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

Synonyms: sleeping, slumbering

Antonyms: awake, active

3. Pillage (verb)

Meaning; To loot or plunder by force

Synonyms: ransack, ravage

Antonyms: protect, defend

4. Tizzy (noun)

Meaning; A state of nervous excitement, confusion, or distress; a dither.

Synonyms: annoyance, acrimony

Antonyms: calmness, ease

4. Agitate (verb)

    Meaning; To cause to move with a violent, irregular action

Synonyms: disturb, churn

Antonyms: calm, relax

5. Reckon (verb)

Meaning;  To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

Synonyms: estimate, consider

Antonyms: avoid, evade

6. Contour (noun)

Meaning;  An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.

Synonyms: outline

Antonyms: dullness

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 the 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.