Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017 Exam

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Dear Students, we are providing to you Vocabulary Words from The HINDU Newspaper. We suggest you read a newspaper daily. In case if you are not able to read The Hindu, we will post important words every day from editorial section. These vocab words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.

1.Pilfer

Meaning: steal (things of little value).

Synonym: snatch, embezzle

Sentence: “she produced the handful of coins she had managed to pilfer”

2.Zenith

Meaning: the time at which something is most powerful or successful.

Synonym: highest point, high point, crowning point, height,

Antonym: nadir, bottom

Sentence:”the king was at the zenith of his power”

3.Banal

Meaning: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

Synonym: trite, hackneyed, clichéd,

Antonym: original

Sentence:”songs with banal, repeated words”

4.Ignominious

Meaning: deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

Synonym: humiliating, undignified, embarrassing,

Antonym: glorious, admirable

Sentence: “no other party risked ignominious defeat

5.Maraud

Meaning: go about in search of things to steal or people to attack., raid and plunder (a place).

Synonym: plunder, go looting

Antonym: Guard, protect

Sentence: “bands of robbers crossed the river to maraud

6.Egregious

Meaning: outstandingly bad; shocking, remarkably good.

Synonym: atrocious, deplorable

Sentence: “egregious abuses of copyright”

7.Acrimony

Meaning: bitterness or ill feeling.

Synonym: ill feeling, ill will, bad blood, animosity, hostility, enmity,

Antonym: goodwill

Sentence:”the AGM dissolved into acrimony”

8.Imbibe

Meaning: absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge).

Synonym: assimilate, absorb, soak up, take in, digest

Antonym: abstain, fast

Sentence:”if one does not imbibe the culture one cannot succeed”

9.Adage

Meaning: a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth.

Synonym: saying, maxim, axiom, proverb,

Sentence: “the old adage ‘out of sight out of mind’”

10.Paraphernalia

Meaning:miscellaneous articles, especially the equipment needed for a particular activity.

Synonym: equipment, stuff, things, apparatus,

Antonym: immovables,

Sentence: “drills, saws, and other paraphernalia necessary for home improvements”

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