HINDU Newspaper Vocabulary for RBI ASSISTANT MAINS Exams 2017

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1.Lecherous

Meaning: having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.

Synonym: lustful, licentious, lascivious,

Antonym: chaste, pure

Sentence: “she ignored his lecherous gaze”

2.Catharsis

Meaning: the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or 

repressed emotions.

Synonym: purging, purgation, purification, cleansing,

Sentence: “music is a means of catharsis for them”

3.Bigotry

Meaning: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc.: a bigoted person

Synonym: dogmatist, partisan

Sentence: a deeply ingrained bigotry prevented her from even considering the counterarguments

4.interdict

Meaning: an authoritative prohibition, in particular:

Synonym: prohibition, ban, bar, veto, proscription,

Antonym: :corroborate, support

Sentence: “army efforts to interdict enemy supply shipments”

5.insurgent

Meaning: a person fighting against a government or invading force; a rebel or revolutionary.

Synonym: rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, mutineer, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist

Antonym: loyal, government

Sentence: “an attack by armed insurgents”

6.posthumous

Meaning: occurring, awarded, or appearing after the death of the originator., (of 

a child) born after the death of its father.

Synonym: postmortem

Antonym: antemortem

Sentence: “he was awarded a posthumous Military Cross”

7. Rancour 

Meaning:  a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.

Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment, reprisal.

Sentence:  Although my friend betrayed me, I have no rancor towards him.

8.potable

Meaning: safe to drink; drinkable.

Synonym: drinkable

Antonym: contaminated, dirty, foul, polluted;

Sentence: “there is no supply of potable water available”

9.potpourri

Meaning: a mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl to perfume a room.

a mixture or medley of things.

Synonym: mixture, assortment, collection, selection

Sentence: “he played a potpourri of tunes from Gilbert and Sullivan”

10. Pernicious

Meaning: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

Synonym: harmful, damaging, destructive, injurious

Antonym: beneficial, benign, favourable

Sentence: “the pernicious influences of the mass media”