The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS RRB PO 2017

Dear Readers,

Example: Reviving the joy of snail mail, the world’s highest post office is on every tourist’s bucket list.

1. Bucket list

Noun: a list of things a person wants to achieve or experience, as before reaching a certain age or dying.

Example: His tiny post office is overrun by thousands of instant converts to snail mail, busy penning souvenir missives to kin and friends.

2. Overrun [verb oh-ver-ruhn; noun oh-ver-ruhn] 

Verb: to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage; to swarm over in great numbers, as animals, especially vermin; infest; to spread or grow rapidly over, as plants, especially vines, weeds, etc.; to attack and defeat decisively, occupying and controlling the enemy’s position; overwhelm.

Synonyms: massacre, occupy, overwhelm, raid, rout, swamp, beat, clobber, drub, foray, inroad, lambaste.

Antonyms: underwhelm, lose, surrender, evacuate.

3. Souvenir [soo-vuh-neer, soo-vuh-neer] 

Noun: a usually small and relatively inexpensive article given, kept, or purchased as a reminder of a place visited, an occasion, etc.; memento; a memory.

Synonyms: gift, memento, relic, trophy, memorial, remembrance, reminder, token, remembrancer.

4. Missive [mis-iv] 

Noun: a written message; letter.

Adjective: sent or about to be sent, especially of a letter from an official source.

Synonyms: memo, memorandum, dispatch, epistle, letter, line, message.

Antonym: silence, speech.

5. Kin [kin] 

Noun: a person’s relatives collectively; kinfolk; family relationship or kinship; a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a people, clan, tribe, or family.

Synonyms: affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction.

Example: Nitish’s new team in the saddle in Bihar.

6. Saddle [sad-l] 

Noun: a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal; a similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc; a part of a harness laid across the back of an animal and girded under the belly, to which the terrets and checkhook are attached.

Idiom, in the saddle: in a position to direct or command; in control; at work; on the job.

Synonyms: howdah, packsaddle, pillion, seat.

Example: Rajasthan to set up eight business incubators.

7. Incubator [in-kyuh-bey-ter, ing-] 

Noun: an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially; an enclosed apparatus in which prematurely born infants are kept in controlled conditions, as of temperature, for protection and care; an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultivated at a constant temperature.

Synonyms: incubator, breeding place.

Example: Heavy rain lashes Himachal Pradesh.

8. Lash [lash] 

Noun: the flexible part of a whip; the section of cord or the like forming the extremity of a whip; a swift stroke or blow, with a whip or the like, given as a punishment; something that goads or pains in a manner compared to that of a whip; a swift dashing or sweeping movement, as of an animal’s tail; switch; a violent beating or impact, as of waves or rain, against something.

Verb: to strike or beat, as with a whip or something similarly slender and flexible; to beat violently or sharply against; to drive by or as if by strokes of a whip.

Synonyms: batter, buffet, chastise, knock, pummel, smack, baste, dash, drum, flagellate, flay, flog, hammer, hide, hit.

Antonym: compliment, lose, praise.

Example: Tiger census on in Bangladesh Sundarbans.

9. Census [sen-suh s] 

Noun: an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.; the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.

Verb: to take a census of.

Synonyms: enumeration, poll, demographics, demography, statistics, population tally, stats.

Example: Gujarat wobble seems like getting sorted before the next election there.

10. Wobble [wob-uh l] 

Verb: to incline to one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, or other rotating body when not properly balanced; to move unsteadily from side to side; to show unsteadiness; tremble; quaver.

Noun: a wobbling movement.

Synonyms: careen, falter, flounder, lurch, oscillate, quiver, reel, seesaw, shimmy, stumble, sway, teeter, totter, tremble.

Antonyms: be still, remain, stay, steady.