Trending Vocabulary for SSC and Bank Exam

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1.Besiege

Meaning: surround (a place) with armed forces in order to capture it or force its surrender.

Synonym: beleaguer, blockade, surround

Sentence: “the king marched north to besiege Berwick”

2.Bête noire

Meaning: a person or thing that one particularly dislikes.

Synonym: anathema, abomination, bogey, bugaboo;

Sentence: “great-uncle Edward was my father’s bête noire”

3.Biennial

Meaning: taking place every other year.

Sentence: “the first of a series of biennial exhibitions”

4.Blasphemous

Meaning: sacrilegious against God or sacred things

Synonym: profane, irreligious, irreverent, impious,

Sentence: “blasphemous and heretical talk”

5.Amalgamate

Meaning: combine or unite to form one organization or structure.

Synonym: combine, merge, unite,

Antonym: separate

Sentence: “he amalgamated his company with another”

6.Pedantic

Meaning: excessively concerned with minor details or rules; over scrupulous.

Synonym: abstruse, pompous, stilted, academic

Antonym: informal, plain

Sentence: “his analyses are careful and even painstaking, but never pedantic”

7.Exorbitant

Meaning: (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high.

Synonym: extortionate, preposterous

Antonym: reasonable, competitive

Sentence: “some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls”

8.Bourgeois

Meaning: belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

Synonym: middle-class, property-owning,

Antonym: proletarian, unconventional

Sentence: “a rich, bored, bourgeois family”

9.Prognosis

Meaning: an opinion, based on medical experience, of the likely course of a medical condition, a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.

Synonym: prediction, projection

Antonym: calculation, measurement

Sentence: “gloomy prognoses about overpopulation”

10.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”