Daily Wordlist for IBPS/Other Bank Exam 2016

1.Contraband

Meaning: goods that have been imported or exported illegally.

Synonym: smuggled, black-market, bootleg

Sentence: "customs men had searched the carriages for contraband"

2.throttle

Meaning: a device controlling the flow of fuel or power to an engine.

Synonym: choke, strangle, strangulate, 

Sentence: "the engines were at full throttle"

"it has two engines that can be throttled"

Meaning: a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.

Synonym:  host, mob, assemblage, gathering, congregation,

Sentence: "he pushed his way through the throng"

Meaning: 1.a jeweled  ornamental band worn on the front of a woman's hair.

2.a high diadem encircled with three crowns and worn by a pope.

Synonym: headband, headdress, chaplet

Sentence: she brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.

5. Vitiate

Meaning: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.

Synonym: poison, spoil, stain, tarnish, touch, taint

Sentence: "development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population"

6.intimidation

Meaning: the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated.

Synonym: frightening, menacing, terrifying, scaring, alarming

Antonym: benign, benignant, gentle, mild, non-intimidating, tender

Sentence: "the intimidation of witnesses and jurors"

Meaning: done or shown openly; plainly apparent.

Synonym: undisguised, unconcealed, observable, visible, manifest, above board;

Antonym: covert, hidden

Sentence: "an overt act of aggression"

8.pacifist

Meaning: a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable., holding the belief that war and violence are unjustifiable.

Synonym: appeaser, pacifier

Antonym: warmonger

Sentence: "she was a committed pacifist all her life"

Meaning: prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

Synonym: foil, frustrate, stand in the way of, forestall

Antonym: assist, facilitate

Sentence: "he never did anything to thwart his father"

10.pageant

Meaning: a public entertainment consisting of a procession of people in elaborate, colourful costumes, or an outdoor performance of a historical scene., a beauty contest.

Synonym: parade, procession, cavalcade

Sentence: "they brought the history books to life at the town's pageant"

  

  

  

  

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