Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017

Hello, Greetings!! SBI PO 2017 will commence in the month of APRIL 2017. In order to help and guide all of you, we're going to post VOCABULARY BASED ON THE HINDU NEWSPAPER. In all the competitive exams, Vocabulary questions are asked from newspapers.

Meaning: not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant.

Synonym: distant, detached, unresponsive, remote,

Antonym: familiar, friendly

Sentence: "they were courteous but faintly aloof

2.Skulduggery

Meaning: underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.

Synonym: trickery, swindling, fraudulence

Sentence: "a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery"

Meaning: the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.

Synonym: attraction, lure, draw, pull, appeal, glamour

Sentence: people for whom gold holds no allure"

4.Alacrity

Meaning: brisk and cheerful readiness

Synonym: eagerness, willingness, readiness

Sentence: "she accepted the invitation with alacrity"

5.Soporific

Meaning: tending to induce drowsiness or sleep., a drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or sleep.

Synonym: sleeping pill, sleeping potion, sedative, calmative, tranquillizer, narcotic, opiate;

Antonym: invigorating, stimulant

Sentence: "the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect"

Meaning: ostentatiously costly and luxurious.

Synonym: luxurious, sumptuous, palatial

Antonym: penniless, poor, impoverished, penurious

Sentence: "the opulent comfort of a limousine"

Meaning: a temporary stay., stay somewhere temporarily.

Synonym: stay, visit, stop, stopover, residence;

Sentence: "her sojourn in Rome"

8.Peremptory

Meaning: insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.

Synonym: high-handed, brisk, abrupt, summary, commanding, authoritative,

Antonym: humble, meek, modest, unassuming

Sentence: "‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply"

9.Percussion

Meaning: musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.

Synonym: crash, bang, smash, clash, bump

Sentence: "percussion instruments"

10.Pernicious

Meaning: having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.

Synonym: harmful, damaging, destructive, injurious

Antonym: beneficial, benign, favourable

Sentence: "the pernicious influences of the mass media"