The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For SBI PO and NIACL Exam 2017

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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.Sinuous

Meaning: having many curves and turns.

Synonym: windy, serpentine, curving, twisting

Antonym: straight

Sentence: “the river follows a sinuous trail through the dale”

2.Revulsion

Meaning: a sense of disgust and loathing.

Synonym: disgust, repulsion, abhorrence,

Sentence:”news of the attack will be met with sorrow and revulsion”

3.Eulogize

Meaning: praise highly in speech or writing.

Synonym: acclaim, extol;

Antonym: criticize

Sentence: “he was eulogized as a rock star”

4.Valorize

Meaning: give or ascribe value or validity to.

Synonym: Price -fixing

Sentence: the culture valorizes the individual”

5.Lamentation

Meaning: the passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping.

Synonym: crying, sobbing, moaning

Sentence: “scenes of lamentation”

6.Tautology

Meaning: the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style 

Synonym: repetition, repetitiveness 

Sentence: When the lawyer spoke to the jury, he used tautology to make the jurors aware of his point without being repetitive.

7.Perfidious

Meaning: deceitful and untrustworthy.

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

Antonym: faithful, loyal

Sentence: “a perfidious lover”

8.Altercation

Meaning:  a noisy argument or disagreement, especially in public.

Synonym: argument, quarrel, squabble, fight,

Sentence:”I had an altercation with the ticket collector”

9.Sentinel

Meaning: a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.

Synonym: guard, keeper

Sentence: “soldiers stood sentinel with their muskets”

10.Laggard

Meaning: a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

Synonym: straggler, loiterer, lingerer, dawdler

Sentence:”staff were under enormous pressure and there was no time for laggards”

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