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

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Roundabout

•Meaning: Marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct

•Synonym: collateral, indirect, discursive

•Antonym: direct, honest, straightforward

•Sentence:Hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend

2. Sops

•Meaning: A concession given to mollify or placate

•Synonym: douse, weakling, steep

•Antonym: dehydrate, dry

•Sentence:The offer was a sop to my feelings

3. Parched

•Meaning: Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

•Synonym: scorched, withered, shrivelled

•Antonym: moist, damp, dry

•Sentence:Parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet

4. Tack

•Meaning: An approach or course of action, esp. a new one

•Synonym: tangent, echelon, digression

•Antonym: stagnation

•Sentence:He stopped for a moment, collecting his thoughts, before deciding to try a different tack

5. Trinkets

•Meaning: Cheap showy jewellery or ornament on clothing

•Synonym: bauble, curio, bagatelle

•Antonym: not shinny

•Sentence:They had this morning put on their best clothes, and all their trinkets.

6. Scintillating

•Meaning: Marked by high spirits or excitement; Brilliantly clever

•Synonym: dazzling, gleaming, glinting

•Antonym: dull, blah

•Sentence:Does a constellation scintillate more brightly than a single star

7. Chinks

•Meaning: A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall; Make or emit a high sound

•Synonym: crevice, fissure, aperture

•Antonym: closure, closing, solid

•Sentence:They ride silently like shadows, with no clatter of stirrup or chink of bit.

8. Hinterland

•Meaning: A remote and undeveloped area

•Synonym: boondocks, outback, frontier

•Antonym: metropolis

•Sentence:Maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords

9. Monotony

•Meaning: The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

•Synonym: tedium, tediousness, invariability

•Antonym: dissimilarity, stoppage, versatility

•Sentence:He had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work

10. Interminable

•Meaning: Tiresomely long; seemingly without end

•Synonym: incessant, perpetual, ceaseless

•Antonym: ephemeral, transient, terminable

•Sentence:He is weary of the interminable procession of comfortless nights and days

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