Vocabulary for IBPS and Other Bank Exam 2016

1.Oligarchy

Meaning: the people that control a country, business, etc.

Synonym: provocateur

Sentence: An oligarchy rules their nation.

2.Stoke

Meaning: to increase the amount or strength of (something)

Synonym: accelerate, add

Sentence: The new ad campaign has helped to stoke sales.

Meaning: damage resulting from ravaging: violently destructive effect

Synonym: devastate, pillage

Sentence: Hurricane Andrew ravaged Louisiana and Florida in 1992, causing $19 billion in damage

4.Decathlon

Meaning: a sports contest for men that consists of 10 different events

Sentence: The event had a decathlon activity.

5.catharsis

Meaning: the act or process of releasing a strong emotion (such as pity or fear)

especially by expressing it in an art form

Synonym: purgation, purification, cleansing

Sentence: Acting is a means of catharsis for her.

6.anomaly:

Meaning:something that is unusual or unexpected : something anomalous

Synonym: aberration, abnormality, exception,

Antonym :norm, ordinary, usual

Sentence:We couldn't explain the anomalies in the test results.

7.Serenity (noun)

Meaning:Calmness

Synonym:peace, tranquility

Antonym :clamor, din, noise,

Sentence:the serenity of the glassy sea soothed the sailors after the big storm.

8. Raucous (adj)

Meaning:Noisy, rowdy

Synonym:, boisterous,

Antonym : noiseless, peaceful, placid,

Sentence:Serena, who preferred quiet conversation, left the rancous party.

9.Masquerade

Meaning: a false show or pretence

Synonym: pretence, deception

Antonym: honesty,openness, reality

Sentence:"I doubt he could have kept up the masquerade for long"

Meaning:(of a fault or offence) slight and pardonable

Synonym: pardonable, forgivable, excusable, condonable

Antonym: unforgivable, unpardonable, mortal

Sentence:"we cannot prevent ourselves sometimes from dreaming of performing venial if not mortal sins"

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