Daily Vocabulary Words 23rd June 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. Anomaly (noun)

Meaning; A deviation from a rule

Synonyms: deviation, abnormality

Antonyms: normality, regularity

2. Idyllic (adjective)

Meaning; Extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque

Synonyms: pastoral

Antonyms: urban

3. Smug (Adjective)

Meaning; Irritatingly pleased with oneself, offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.

Synonyms: complacency, egotism

Antonyms: bashfulness, shyness

4. Wrest (verb)

Meaning; To seize.

Synonyms: snatch, grab

Antonyms: release, give

5. Vicious (adjective)

Meaning; Violent, destructive and cruel.

Synonyms: cruel, barbarous

Antonyms: civilized, generous

6. Sabotage (noun)

meaning; To deliberately destroy or damage something

synonyms: destroy, damage

antonyms: enhance, upgrade

7. staid (adjective)

meaning; Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.

synonyms: composed, dignified

antonyms: hilarious, indecorous

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.