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 Editorial. 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. 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”

2. Solvent

Meaning: having assets in excess of liabilities; able to pay one’s debts.

Synonym: financially sound, able to pay one’s debts, debt-free

Antonym: in debt

Sentence: “interest rate rises have very severe effects on normally solvent companies”

3. Sojourn

Meaning: a temporary stay., stay somewhere temporarily.

Synonym: stay, visit, stop, stopover, residence;

Sentence: “her sojourn in Rome”

4. Orthodox

Meaning: following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or beliefs of a religion, philosophy, or practice.

Synonym: conservative, traditional, observant, conformist

Antonym: unconventional, unorthodox, nonconformist

Sentence: “Burke’s views were orthodox in his time”

5. 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”

6. Perfidious

Meaning: deceitful and untrustworthy.

Synonym: treacherous, duplicitous, deceitful, disloyal, faithless, unfaithful, traitorous

Antonym: faithful, loyal

Sentence: “a perfidious lover”

7. Peremptory

Meaning: insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.

Synonym: high-handed, brisk, abrupt, summary, commanding, authoritative,

Antonym: humble, meek, modest, unassuming

Sentence: “‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply”

8. Penury

Meaning: the state of being very poor; extreme poverty.

Synonym:  impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence,

Antonym: wealth, affluence

Sentence: “he couldn’t face another year of penury”

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. Sombre

Meaning: having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness

Synonym: solemn, earnest, serious,

Antonym: cheerful, bright

Sentence: “he looked at her with a sombre expression”

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