HINDU Newspaper Vocabulary for RBI ASSISTANT MAINS Exams 2017

Meaning: a true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance.

Synonym: verisimilitude, accuracy

Antonym: falsehood

Sentence: to question the verity of a statement.

2.Apotheosis

Meaning: the perfect form or example of something, the highest or best part of 

Synonym: epitome, exemplar, ideal, perfection

Sentence:"his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career"

Meaning: Exaggerated pride or self-confidence

Synonym: arrogance, conceit,

Antonym: modesty

Sentence:"the self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s"

4.Insidious

Meaning: proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects.

Synonym: stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, sneaking

Antonym: straightforward

Sentence:"sexual harassment is a serious and insidious problem"

5.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: a small, steep waterfall; especially one that is part of a series of waterfalls, a large amount of something that flows or hangs down

Synonym: waterfall, falls

Sentence: the waterfall raced down in a series of cascades"

7.Verbiage

Meaning: excessively lengthy or technical speech or writing.

Synonym: verbosity

Sentence: the basic idea here, despite all the verbiage, is simple"

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"

9.Apocryphal

Meaning: well-known but probably not true

Synonym: fictitious, made-up, untrue, fabricated,

Antonym: authentic, true

Sentence:"an apocryphal story about a former president"

Meaning: relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities

Synonym: sensual, erotic, lustful, lascivious

Antonym: spiritual

Sentence:"carnal desire"

 

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