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

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Ransack

•Meaning: Steal goods; take as spoils; Search thoroughly

•Synonym: pillage, loot, maraud

•Antonym: protect, offer, neaten

•Sentence:During the earthquake people ransacked the stores that were deserted by their owners

2. Adroit

•Meaning: Quick or skilful or adept in action or thought

•Synonym: masterful, ingenious, crackerjack

•Antonym: clumsy, incompetent, unskilled

•Sentence:His adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers

3. Foster

•Meaning: Promote the growth of

•Synonym: cultivate, nurture, stimulate

•Antonym: cease, starve, dampen

•Sentence:Hopes that things might work out all right in the end arose to cheer him, and there was much to foster such an idea.

4. Drubbing

•Meaning: A sound defeat; Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

•Synonym: beating, trouncing, walloping

•Antonym: fail, surrender, lose

•Sentence:We drubbed the other team on Sunday

5. Parch

•Meaning: Cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat

•Synonym: scorch, blister, desiccate

•Antonym: freeze, moisten, grow

•Sentence:May it parch their throats, as if they had been breathing the Simon

6. Hysterical

•Meaning: Marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion

•Synonym: agitated, passionate, vehement

•Antonym: apathetic, indifferent, unenthusiastic

•Sentence:The audiences cheered and cried and let themselves go in the hysterical manner of people wrought up by great national excitement

7. Rummage

•Meaning: A jumble of things to be given away; A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

•Synonym: forage, delve, disarray

•Antonym: arrange, systematize, soothe

•Sentence:He gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis

8. Volte-face

•Meaning: A major change in attitude, principle or point of view

•Synonym: contraposition, tergiversation, turnabout

•Antonym: stagnation, corroboration, validation

•Sentence:Bulgaria's present volte-face is no chance product of panic, but a logical step in her national policy.

9. Heckle

•Meaning: A comb for separating flax fibres; Challenge aggressively

•Synonym: badger, ridicule, discomfit

•Antonym: promote, reassure, encourage

•Sentence:A few Southern sympathizers who attempted to heckle the speakers were quickly shouted down.

10.Abscond

•Meaning: Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

•Synonym: decamp, flee, hightail

•Antonym: abide, endure, yield

•Sentence:The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe

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