Hindu Word Meaning for SSC CGL 2016, SSC CPO, SSC CHSL

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Obnoxious

•Meaning: Causing disapproval or protest

•Synonym: abhorrent, abominable, disgusting

•Antonym: decent, agreeable, delightful

•Sentence:The Chapel was stripped of the obnoxious ornaments, and other damage done.

2. Meddling

•Meaning: The act of altering something secretly or improperly

•Synonym: interference, interrupting, snooping

•Antonym: uninterested, facilitate, retreat

•Sentence:What good did an outsider ever get by meddling in a love affair

3. Plausible

•Meaning: Apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful

•Synonym: conceivable, credible, persuasive

•Antonym: improbable, unbelievable, untenable

•Sentence:He hastened to soothe his feelings with a plausible explanation.

4. Baffling

•Meaning: Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend, solve or believe

•Synonym: bewildering, mystifying, perplexing

•Antonym: clear, fathomable, comprehensible

•Sentence:The pay of the soldiers remained to Washington a baffling problem.

5. Dissemination

•Meaning: The opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate

•Synonym: circulation, propagation, dissipation

•Antonym: collection, gathering

•Sentence:When facts have been ascertained, their dissemination and acceptance is another problem

6. Panacea

•Meaning: Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

•Synonym: elixir, nostrum, remedy

•Antonym: disease, injury, pain

•Sentence:His faith in it as a panacea for all political trouble was as strong as ever.

7. Battering

•Meaning: The act of subjecting to strong attack

•Synonym: clobber, demolish, pummel

•Antonym: construct, restore, assist

•Sentence:If we had time to construct machines for battering the walls, it would be an easy business; but that is out of the question

8. Etiquette

•Meaning: Rules governing socially acceptable behaviour

•Synonym: decency, civility, politesse

•Antonym: impoliteness, discourtesy, indecency

•Sentence:Men are less inclined to certain forms of etiquette than women

9. Foibles

•Meaning: A behavioural attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

•Synonym: eccentricity, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy

•Antonym: normality, usualness, strength

•Sentence:He was thought witty, thanks to his foible for relating a quantity of anecdotes on the reign of Louis XV.

10.Groove

•Meaning: A settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

•Synonym: trench, corrugation, crimp

•Antonym: ridge

•Sentence:Town life is very distracting, if you once get into the groove.

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