Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017

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Hello, Greetings!! SBI PO 2017 will commence in the month of APRIL 2017. In order to help and guide all of you, we’re going to post VOCABULARY BASED ON THE HINDU NEWSPAPER. In all the competitive exams, Vocabulary questions are asked from newspapers. 

1.Onerous

Meaning: (of a task or responsibility) involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty.

Synonym: burdensome, heavy, inconvenient, troublesome,

Antonym: easy, effortless

Sentence: “he found his duties increasingly onerous”

2.Sanctimonious

Meaning: making a show of being morally superior to other people.

Synonym: self-righteous, 

Antonym: forthright, honest

Sentence: “what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first?”

3.Amalgam

Meaning: a mixture or blend.

Synonym: combination, union, merger, blend, mixture, mingling

Antonym: division, separation

Sentence: “a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern

4.Innate

Meaning: inborn; natural

Synonym: congenital, inherent, intrinsic

Antonym: acquired

Sentence: “her innate capacity for organization”

5.Penal

Meaning: relating to, used for, or prescribing the punishment of offenders under the legal system.

Synonym: disciplinary, punitive, corrective,

Antonym: compensatory; acquitting,

Sentence: “the campaign for penal reform”

6.Austere

Meaning: severe in manner

Synonym: exacting, formal, cold

Antonym: flexible, bland, calm

Sentence: Quickly the light died out of his face, leaving it stern and austere.

7.Apostate

Meaning: Traitor

Synonym: Backslider, defector, deserter

Antonym: adherent, loyalist, faithful

Sentence: after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith

8.Colloquy

Meaning: A conversation especially a formal one

Synonym: parley, conference, clambake

Antonym: quiet, silence

Sentence: They could scarcely have spoken a hundred words before their colloquy was at an end.

9.Monotheism

Meaning: the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

Synonym:  theism

Sentence: In my church, we believe in monotheism, the idea of a solitary god.

10.Cynosure

Meaning: a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration.

Synonym: central, core, center, epicenter, eye, focus

Sentence: “Kirk was the cynosure of all eyes

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