The Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI 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.Unilateral

Meaning:(of an action or decision) performed by or affecting only one person, group, or country involved in a situation, without the agreement of another or the others.

Synonym: one-party, one-sided

Antonym: multilateral

Sentence: “unilateral nuclear disarmament”

2.Pugnacious

Meaning: eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.

Synonym: combative, aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent,

Antonym: peaceable, friendly

Sentence: “the increasingly pugnacious demeanour of right-wing politicians”

3.Puerile

Meaning: childishly silly and immature.

Synonym: adolescent, babyish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile,

Antonym: experienced, knowing, smart, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise

Sentence: “a puerile argument”

4.Prudent

Meaning: acting with or showing care and thought for the future.

Synonym: wise, well judged, judicious, sagacious

Antonym: unwise, imprudent, incautious, extravagant

Sentence: “no prudent money manager would authorize a loan without first knowing its purpose”

5.Pseudonym

Meaning: a fictitious name, especially one used by an author.

Synonym: pen name, assumed name, incognito, alias,

Sentence: “I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey”

6.Unison

Meaning: simultaneous performance or utterance of action or speech.

Synonym: (all) at once, at the same moment, (all) together, as one, in concert, in chorus

Sentence: “‘Yes, sir,’ said the girls in unison”

7.Chicanery

Meaning: the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose.

Synonym: trickery, deception, deceit,

Sentence: “storylines packed with political chicanery”

8.Chauvinist

Meaning: a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism.

Synonym: jingoistic, chauvinistic, excessively patriotic

Sentence: “a chauvinist rejection of foreign interference”

9.Charlatan

Meaning: a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill.

Synonym: quack, mountebank, sham, fraud, fake

Sentence: “a self-confessed con artist and charlatan”

10.Chameleon

Meaning: a small slow-moving Old World lizard with a prehensile tail, long extensible tongue, protruding eyes that rotate independently, and a highly developed ability to change colour.,

a person who changes their opinions or behaviour according to the situation.

Synonym: opportunist, temporizer, timeserver,

Sentence:”voters have misgivings about his performance as a political chameleon”