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

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Agog

•Meaning: Highly excited

•Synonym: avid, eager, enthralled

•Antonym: uninterested

•Sentence:The internet users are agog over Google

2. Eulogise

•Meaning: Praise formally and eloquently

•Synonym: extol, acclaim, magnify

•Antonym: castigate, calumniate, censure

•Sentence:The dead woman was eulogised at the funeral

3. Aplomb

•Meaning: Great coolness and composure under strain

•Synonym: equanimity, nonchalance, assurance

•Antonym: fear, gaucheness

•Sentence:Miss Milbrey disunited the chatting couple with swiftness and aplomb.

4. Bastion

•Meaning: A group that defends a principle

•Synonym: bulwark, citadel, fortress

•Antonym: weak spot, weakness

•Sentence:Your bastion is to be stormed this afternoon previous to the general assault.

5. Derisive

•Meaning: Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

•Synonym: cheeky, disdainful, scornful

•Antonym: kind, polite, flattering

•Sentence:A laugh, derisive but not discourteous to himself, greeted the question.

6. Thwart

•Meaning: Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

•Synonym: circumvent, stymie, outwit

•Antonym: abet, liberate. facilitate

•Sentence:By this means we shall know their plots, and will thwart them, you by listening to my enemies and I to yours.

7. Trounce

•Meaning: Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

•Synonym: clobber, swamp, lambaste

•Antonym: underwhelm, forfeit, preserve

•Sentence:We trounced the other team on Sunday

8. Whimsical

•Meaning: Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason

•Synonym: fanciful, capricious, kinky

•Antonym: tragic, regular, sensible

•Sentence:The whimsical smile with which he accompanied the speech disarmed me.

9. Macabre

•Meaning: Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

•Synonym: ghastly, ghoulish, morbid

•Antonym: cheerful, happy, pretty

•Sentence:Macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages

10. Dialectic

•Meaning: Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments

•Synonym: persuasive, rational, polemical

•Antonym: illogical, irrational

•Sentence:This situation created the inner dialectic of American history

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