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.Alchemy

Meaning: the medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir

Synonym: chemistry

Sentence:”occult sciences, such as alchemy and astrology”

2.Errant

Meaning: wrong, deviant

Synonym: erratic, stray

Antonym: normal,

Sentence: I saw an errant man shouting at his daughter for skipping office

3.Attrition

Meaning: A wearing down to weaken or destroy

Synonym: erosion, grinding

Antonym: building, happiness

Sentence: The difficulty was to overcome its susceptibility to attrition.

4.Inexorable

Meaning: impossible to stop or prevent.

Synonym: relentless, unstoppable, unavoidable

Antonym: flexible, lenient

Sentence: “the seemingly inexorable march of new technology”

5.Pensive

Meaning: engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

Synonym: thoughtful, thinking, reflective

Antonym: unreflective

Sentence: “a pensive mood”

6.Solace

Meaning: comfort or consolation in a time of great distress or sadness, give solace to

Synonym: comfort, consolation, cheer, support, relief

Antonym: distress, heartache, heartbreak, torment, torture

Sentence: “she sought solace in her religion”

7.Aloft

Meaning: up in or into the air; overhead.

Synonym: into the sky, skyward, on high, heavenward

Antonym: down

Sentence:”the congregation sways, hands aloft”

8.Ameliorate

Meaning: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

Synonym: improve, amend, better, enhance, enrich

Antonym: damage, endamage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, spoil, tarnish, vitiate

Sentence: “the reform did much to ameliorate living standards

9.Alliteration

Meaning: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Sentence: “the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’”

10.Alleviate

Meaning: make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.

Synonym: reduce, ease, relieve

Antonym: aggravate

Sentence: “he couldn’t prevent her pain, only alleviate it”

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