HINDU Newspaper Vocabulary for RBI ASSISTANT MAINS Exams 2017

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1.Prognosis

Meaning: an opinion, based on medical experience, of the likely course of a 

medical condition, a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.

Synonym: prediction, projection

Antonym:calculation,measurement

Sentence:”gloomy prognoses about overpopulation”

2.Jeopardize

Meaning: put (someone or something) into a situation in which there is a danger 

of loss, harm, or failure.

Synonym: threaten, endanger, imperil, menace, risk,

Antonym: safeguard

Sentence:”a devaluation of the dollar would jeopardize New York’s position as a 

financial centre“

3.Quintessential

Meaning: representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class.   

synonyms: classic, definitive, exemplary, imitable

Antonym: poor, substandard,

usage: “a selfless desire to help others is the quintessence of the virtue of charity”

4.Purloin

Meaning: to take (something that belongs to someone else)     

synonyms: steal

Antonym: bestow, contribute,

usage: the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script 

5.Irrefragable

Meaning: impossible to refute   

synonyms: certain, inarguable, incontestable, incontrovertible

Antonym: controversial, debated, disputed;

usage: “the prosecutor painstakingly built an irrefragable case”

6.Putative

Meaning: generally considered or reputed to be   

synonyms: prima facie, apparent, reputed, seeming, supposed

Antonym:hidden, inapparent; implausible,

usage: “I was discouraged to find yet another putative director wandering about in the Cowan offices”

7.Stampede

Meaning: a sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle, or other animals.

Synonym: charge, panic, rush,

Antonym: retreat, standing

Sentence: “the herd was fleeing back to the high land in a wild stampede”

8.Envisage

Meaning: contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event

Synonym: foresee, predict, forecast

Antonym: disregard, ignore

Sentence: “the Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers”

9.Harbinger

Meaning: a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another., a forerunner of something.

Synonym: herald, sign, indicator,

Sentence: “these works were not yet opera but they were the most important harbinger of opera”

10.Proliferate

Meaning: increase rapidly in number; multiply.

Synonym: increase rapidly, grow rapidly, multiply,

Antonym: decrease, dwindle

Sentence: “the science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s”

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