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

Today’s Word from The Hindu 

1. Cohort

•Meaning: partner in activity

•Synonym: companion, comrade, disciple

•Antonym: enemy, foe, opponent

•Sentence:The cohort on duty was drawn up under arms at the palace gates

2. Sever

•Meaning: Set or keep apart

•Synonym: detach, separate

•Antonym: attach, combine

•Sentence:It needs immense courage to sever a marriage if you have time to think what you are doing.

3. Curing

•Meaning: Helping cure

•Synonym: healing, sanative

•Antonym: harmful, damaging

•Sentence:The flavor is due partly to soil and climate, and partly to skill in curing

4. Parched

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

•Synonym: arid, withered

•Antonym: moist, damp

•Sentence:Her lips were dry and parched, and she felt a terrible thirst.

5. Inflict

•Meaning: Make (someone) do something unpleasant

•Synonym: levy, apply

•Antonym: hold, take, withhold

•Sentence:"The principal inflicted his rage on the students"

6. Lenity

•Meaning: Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant

•Synonym: altruism, compassion

•Antonym: cruelty, harshness

•Sentence:It is for the jury to find a just medium between harshness and lenity

7. Parley

•Meaning: negotiation

•Synonym: confab, debate, talk

•Antonym: Quite, silence

•Sentence: Aparley is in progress and the invaders may withdraw

8. Apostate

•Meaning: Traitor

•Synonym: Backslider, defector, deserter

•Antonym: adherent, loyalist, faithful

•Sentence:after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith

9. Rugged

•Meaning: Sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

•Synonym: irregular, lumpy

•Antonym: even, smooth

•Sentence:with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"

10.Veer

•Meaning: Change direction

•Synonym: Bend, deflect

•Antonym: keep to, stay

•Sentence:"The motorbike veered to the right"