Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017

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1.Valorize

Meaning: give or ascribe value or validity to.

Synonym: Price -fixing

Sentence: the culture valorizes the individual”

2.Lamentation

Meaning: the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.

Synonym: crying, sobbing, moaning

Sentence: “scenes of lamentation”

3.Tautology

Meaning: the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, 

generally considered to be a fault of style 

Synonym: repetition, repetitiveness 

Sentence: When the lawyer spoke to the jury, he used tautology to make the jurors aware of his point without being repetitive.

4.Sinuous

Meaning: having many curves and turns.

Synonym: windy, serpentine, curving, twisting

Antonym: straight

Sentence: “the river follows a sinuous trail through the dale”

5.Sobriquet

Meaning: a person’s nickname.

Synonym: alias, byname, cognomen, epithet

Sentence: “she was a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet ‘Duchesse’”

6.Skulduggery

Meaning: underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.

Synonym: trickery, swindling, fraudulence

Sentence: “a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery”

7.Agile

Meaning: able to move quickly and easily.

Synonym: acrobatic, dexterous, deft,

Antonym: clumsy, stiff, slow, dull

Sentence: “Ruth was as agile as a monkey”

8.Aghast

Meaning: filled with horror or shock.

Synonym: horrified, appalled, astounded, amazed, dismayed,

Antonym:  fearless, unafraid

Sentence: “she winced, aghast at his cruelty”

Sentence: “separating authentic and spurious claims”

9.Percussion

Meaning: musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.

Synonym: crash, bang, smash, clash, bump

Sentence: “percussion instruments”

10.Windfall

Meaning: a large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly.

Synonym: bonanza, jackpot,

Sentence: “members are to get an average £520 cash windfall for voting ‘yes’ to the merger”