Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017 |

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.Lummox

Meaning: a clumsy, awkward person

Synonym: butterfingers, looby, dub

Sentence: “that player is a lummox in the outfield”

2.Accoutre

Meaning: to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity

Synonym: furnish,equip,gird

Sentence: “hikers accoutered with walking sticks, water bottles, trail maps, and compasses”

3.Castigate

Meaning: to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

Synonym: berate, chastise, chew out

Sentence: “ castigated him for his constant tardiness”

4.Amity

Meaning: kindly concern, interest, or support

Synonym: goodwill, benevolence, charity

Sentence: “ a youth club fostering amity among the city’s many and diverse ethnic groups”

5.Oust

Meaning: to drive or force out

Synonym: banish, cast out, dismiss

Sentence: “she was ousted from her job after it was proven she’d been smuggling company supplies”

6.Pilfering

Meaning: to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep

Synonym: filch, heist, purloin

Sentence: “what sort of person would pilfer lunches from the office refrigerator?”

7.Ostentatious

Meaning: excessively showy

Synonym: flamboyant, glitzy, razzle-dazzle

Sentence: She wears an ostentatious diamond ring on her little finger

8.Precocious

Meaning: occurring before the usual or expected time

Synonym: premature, early, unseasonable

Sentence: “a precocious baldness makes him look older than he really is”

9.Turpitude

Meaning: a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior

Synonym: abjection, debasement, depravity

Sentence: “pictorial advertisements for chic clothing and fragrances in which drug addiction and other forms of moral turpitude are depicted as alternative fashion statements”

10.Abstemious

Meaning: not eating and drinking too much

Synonym: continent, self-abnegating

Sentence: “She is known as an abstemious eater and drinker.”