The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS RRB PO 2017

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.Hail

Meaning: a heavy fall of objects; a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

Synonym: sleet, precipitation, beat, shower, rain, fall, pour, drop, shower blitz, blitzkrieg, bombardment, cannonade,

Antonym: dribble, drip, trickle

2.Barbarism

Meaning: absence of culture and civilization; extreme cruelty or brutality.

Synonym:  atrocious, barbaric, cruel, brutal, brute, butcherly, fiendish, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, sadistic, savage, truculent, vicious, wanton

Antonym: cultured, enlightened, humane, sophisticated; genteel, polished, polite, refined, urbane, well-bred; semicivilized

3. Standoff

Meaning: a deadlock between two equally matched opponents in a dispute or conflict.

Synonym: deadlock,stalemate,toss-up,impasse

Antonym:agreement,breakthrough

4.Breaching

Meaning: an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship; a breaking of a moral or legal code; a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation

Synonym:  offense, crime, debt, error, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, sin, 

Antonym: noninfringement, nonviolation, observance; noncrime

5. Adjudication

Meaning: the action or process of adjudicating; a formal judgement on a disputed matter.

Synonym:conclusion,determination,pronouncement,decision

Antonym:beginning,start,indecision

6. Vandalised

Meaning: deliberately destroy or damage (public or private property).

Synonym: demolish,trash,despoil,ravage,wreck,disfigure,ravish,ruin,damage

Antonym:build,fix,repair,construct,mend,aid,assist,help

7.Disburse

Meaning: pay out (money from a fund); to make a payment in settlement of 

Synonym: spend, drop, expend, fork (over, out, or up), give, layout, outlay, pay, shell out

Antonym: cache, hoard, lay up, save; acquire, earn, gain, garner, make, procure, realize, secure, win

8. Calving

Meaning: of an ice mass:  to separate or break so that a part becomes detached;  to give birth to a calf; also: to produce offspring

9. Resurgence

Meaning: The definition of a resurgence is a new start or a revival;  A continuing after interruption; a renewal.

A restoration to use, acceptance, activity, or vigor; a revival.

Synonym: reanimation, rebirth, regeneration, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, renewal, revival, resurrection, resuscitation, revitalization, revivification

Antonym: death, expiration, extinction

10.Bipartite

Meaning: consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined 

Synonym:  binary, double, double-barreled, double-edged, dual, duplex, twin, twofold

Antonym: single

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