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

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Remediation

•Meaning: Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

•Synonym: indemnification, restitution, rectification

•Antonym: wound

•Sentence:The remediation of the rainforest was very much needed due to the fact that so much of the forest had been destroyed by people

2. Wane

•Meaning: Grow smaller

•Synonym: atrophy, dwindle, taper off

•Antonym: brighten, ascend, enlarge

•Sentence:Our interest in the project waned away slowly.

3. Plight

•Meaning: A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one

•Synonym: predicament, quandary, dilemma

•Antonym: blessing, delve, boon

•Sentence:The idea had sustained him ever since he had learned of the plight of his tribesmen.

4. Culminating

•Meaning: Bring to a head or to the highest point; End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

•Synonym: crowning, supreme, crowning

•Antonym: commencing, opening, starting

•Sentence:The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace

5. Succour

•Meaning: Assistance in time of difficulty

•Synonym: sustenance, relief, support

•Antonym: obstruction, hindrance, blockage

•Sentence:The contributions provided some succour for the victims

6. Syllogistic

•Meaning: Of or relating to or consisting of syllogism

•Synonym: deduction, sanity, ratiocination

•Antonym: unreasonableness

•Sentence:The bare forms of Syllogistic are a useless item of knowledge unless they are applied to concrete thought.

7. Myriad

•Meaning: A large indefinite number

•Synonym: gobs, multitudinous, heaping

•Antonym: bounded, measurable

•Sentence:He faced a myriad of details

8. Sacramental

•Meaning: rite; Of or relating to or involving a sacrament

•Synonym: celebration, ceremony

•Antonym: neglect, denial, divorce

•Sentence:The sacramental character, then, is not in itself a sanctifying gift

9. Tyranny

•Meaning: dictatorship

•Synonym: autocracy, despotism 

•Antonym: Democracy

•Sentence:They fled from your tyranny, and grew by your neglect of them.

10. Smear

•Meaning: spread over

•Synonym: cover, stain, patch

•Antonym: clean, purify, honour 

•Sentence:Smear on meat, and place near where the rats are most troublesome.

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