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

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Entourage

• Meaning: The group following and attending to some important person

• Synonym: retinue, cortege, sycophants

• Antonym: leader

• Sentence: Her entourage followed her, shambling a little, and blank-eyed.

2. Sobriquet

• Meaning: A familiar name for a person

• Synonym: appellation, moniker, byname

• Antonym: name

• Sentence: Joe's mother would not use his sobriquet and always called him Joseph

3. Phalanx 

• Meaning: Any closely ranked crowd of people; a body of troops in close array

• Synonym: multitude, throng, myriad

• Antonym: individual, one

• Sentence: It conquers amid the burning sands of the south where the phalanx of Alexander halted in mutiny. 

4. Revenant

• Meaning: Someone who has returned from the dead

• Synonym: apparition, spectre, phantom

• Antonym: being, reality

• Sentence: You are now one of us; a revenant, even as I, and to live you must feed on the living. 

5. Tepid

• Meaning: Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm; Moderately warm 

• Synonym: apathetic, lukewarm, languid

• Antonym: keen, cold, hot

• Sentence: It will be proper never to apply water to them beyond a tepid temperature.

6. Juxtapose

• Meaning: Place side by side

• Synonym: appose, connect, pair

• Antonym: gap, divergence

• Sentence: The fauvists juxtaposed strong colours.

7. Reprieve

• Meaning: A (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort; 

• Synonym: abatement, absolution, clemency

• Antonym: continuation

• Sentence: The reprieve in such circumstances was omitted often enough to make the condemned endure the real agony of death.

8. Trudge

• Meaning: Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

• Synonym: lumber, tramp, traipse

• Antonym: tiptoe

• Sentence: Mules trudged in a circle around a grindstone.

9. Slew

• Meaning: Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; Kill intentionally and with premeditation

• Synonym: wader, in numerous, pecker

• Antonym: ditch, lack, debt

• Sentence: Arbaces fought with the utmost bravery, and slew many of the Assyrians, but was wounded.

10. Varsity

• Meaning: A team representing a college or university

• Synonym: first team, starters, first strings

• Sentence: The journey home was given to the careful recital of news of Winnipeg, of the ' Varsity, and of mutual friends.