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

Today’s Word from The Hindu

1. Recede

• Meaning: Pull back or move away or backward
• Synonym: subside, ebb, taper
• Antonym: forge, ascend, prolong
• Sentence: The unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older

2.  Colloquy

• Meaning: A conversation especially a formal one
• Synonym: parley, conference, clambake
• Antonym: quiet, silence
• Sentence:They could scarcely have spoken a hundred words before their colloquy was at an end.

3. Traverse

• Meaning: Travel across or pass over; To cover or extend over an area or time period
• Synonym: crisscross, negotiate, perambulate
• Antonym: confirm, back up, stay
• Sentence:"The caravan traversed almost 100 miles each day

4. Alms

• Meaning: Money or goods contributed to the poor
• Synonym: dole, donation, assistance
• Antonym: hindrance, injury
• Sentence:She stopped, gave him an alms and then continued on her way.

5. Vindictive

• Meaning: Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge
• Synonym: grudging, spiteful, wreckful
• Antonym: compassionate, forgiving, sympathetic
• Sentence:Avindictive man will look for occasions for resentment

6. Attenuate

• Meaning: Reduced in strength
• Synonym: constrict, cripple, enfeeble
• Antonym: amplify, intensify, stretch
• Sentence:The attenuate tones of an old recording

7. Abstinence

• Meaning: restraint from desires
• Synonym: Chastity, fasting, avoidance,
• Antonym: drunkenness, revelry, excess
• Sentence:We practiced abstinence , and we didn’t miss the alcohol

8. Erudite

• Meaning: Well- educated
• Synonym: literate, scholarly
• Antonym: uneducated, ignorant
• Sentence:As to what India derived from Greece there has been a good deal of eruditedebate.

9. Taciturnity

• Meaning: reserve
• Synonym: aloofness, calmness, coldness
• Antonym: agitation, boldness, liberation
• Sentence:From taciturnityhe sank into silence, from quiet into lethargy.

10. Exigent

• Meaning: URGENT
• Synonym: Insistent, needful
• Antonym: easy, ordinary, usual
• Sentence:Charles immediately revealed the full and exigent nature of his demands.