Daily Wordlist for IBPS/Other Bank Exam 2016

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1. Perpetual

Meaning: Continual, lasting

Synonym: Ceaseless, infinite

Antonym: Bounded, Ceasing

Sentence:The perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy

2.Loquacious

Meaning: tending to talk a great deal; talkative.

Synonym: talkative, garrulous,

Antonym: reticent, taciturn

Sentence: “never loquacious, Sarah was now totally lost for words”

3.Laggard

Meaning: a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

Synonym: straggler, loiterer, lingerer, dawdler

Sentence:”staff were under enormous pressure and there was no time for laggards”

4.Abstemious

Meaning: indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink

Synonym: temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate

Antonym: self-indulgent, intemperate

Sentence: “‘We only had a bottle.’ ‘Very abstemious of you.’”

5.Forebear

Meaning: an ancestor.

Synonym: predecessor, progenitor, father, grandfather

Sentence: “generations of his forebears had lived in London”

6.Lampoon

Meaning: publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.

Synonym: satirize, mock, ridicule,

Antonym: flattery, praise

Sentence: “the actor was lampooned by the press”

7.thesaurus

Meaning: a book that lists words in groups of synonyms and related concepts.

Synonym: word finder, wordbook

Sentence: The results were compared with Vega’s Thesaurus (1794) before publication.

8.picaresque

Meaning: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

Synonym:  dishonest, dishonorable

Sentence: “a picaresque adventure novel”

9.phlegmatic

Meaning: (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition., not easily upset, excited, or angered

Synonym: composed; imperturbable,

Antonym:  histrionic, hot-blooded, impassioned,

Sentence: “the phlegmatic British character” 

a strangely phlegmatic response to what should have been happy news

10.philology

Meaning: the branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of a language or languages.

Sentence: See Whitney’s article Philology in the present edition of the Encyclopedia  Britannica.