Dear Students, SSC CGL 2017 Exam will be conducted from 1st August to 20 August 2017. For vocabulary related questions, you need to read a lot and memorize the words so that you can answer all the questions based on vocab. Your reading habit can make all the difference. If you are not able to read a newspaper for SSC Exam, here we are providing vocab words based on the Hindu newspaper editorial.
1.Brush aside (phrasal verb)
Meaning: To dismiss abruptly or curtly
Example: India booked a date with Pakistan in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy after brushing Bangladesh aside here on Thursday.
Meaning: able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.
Synonyms: adaptable, flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented, multiskilled, many-sided,
Example: On the 70th anniversary of independence and partition we must resist a second partitioning of India, of its versatile ethos, through an invisible surgery, performed by the knife of discord moving under the numbing anaesthesia of fear.
3.Feast (verb)
Meaning: eat and drink sumptuously., To experience something with gratification or delight:
Example: Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit ensured the run chase would be straightforward, feasting on a diet of wide and short-pitched deliveries.
4.Imperious (adjective)
Meaning: arrogant and domineering.
Synonyms: peremptory, high-handed, commanding, imperial, overbearing, overweening,
Example: Dhawan picked up from where he had left off against South Africa, cutting and driving through the offside with delight. The pick of his shots, though, was an imperious pull — one foot off the ground as he swivelled — off Taskin Ahmed that sailed into the stands over square-leg.
5.Gleefully (adverb)
Meaning: in an exuberantly or triumphantly joyful manner.
Rohit was offered width, and he gleefully accepted it, threading drive after drive through the offside.
6.Vociferous (adjective)
Meaning: expressing or characterized by vehement opinions; loud and forceful.
Synonyms: vehement, outspoken, vocal, forthright, plain-spoken, frank, candid, open, uninhibited, direct, earnest, eager, enthusiastic, full-throated, vigorous, insistent, emphatic,
Example: He eased himself in — as he always does — before putting Bangladesh's bowlers to the sword. He finished unbeaten on 96, completing 8,000 career runs in the process, and Rohit on 123, as vociferous Indian supporters danced in the aisles. They will seek more joy at the Oval on Sunday.
7.Ominous (adjective)
Meaning: giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.
Synonyms: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister, doomy, inauspicious, unpropitious,
Example: Seventy-one runs had been added between the end of the 15th and 25th overs, with Tamim, who had just clouted Ashwin for a hat-trick of fours, looking in ominous form.
8.Ramshackle (adjective)
Meaning: (especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair.
Synonyms: tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit, neglected, gone to rack and ruin, run down, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, rickety, shaky, unsteady,
Example: They left in terror, travelled trembling, and ‘arrived’ traumatised to a ramshackle refuge. A new and powerful word moved from the small print of the English lexicon to everyday Indian speech: refugee.
9.Mayhem (noun)
Meaning: violent or extreme disorder; chaos.
Synonyms: chaos, disorder, confusion, havoc, bedlam, pandemonium, tumult, uproar, turmoil, madness, madhouse, hullabaloo, all hell broken loose, wild disarray,
disorganization, maelstrom, trouble, disturbance, commotion, riot, anarchy, destruction.
Example: In Delhi shortly thereafter, he saw the same mayhem again. Another fast ensued, another calm. In his prayer meeting on January 20, 1948, as he spoke, a small bomb — they later called it a gun-cotton slab — detonated. There was some commotion.
10.Promulgate (verb)
Meaning: promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).
Synonyms: make known, make public, publicize, spread, communicate, propagate, disseminate,
Example: Those connected historically and culturally to the idea of a Hindu Rashtra are, today, promulgating their passionately-held philosophy in different ways, dispersed incidents, apparently unconnected, in ways that make a Muslim feel fearful, a Christian feel as light as a leaf that can be blown off by a single majoritarian breath, a liberal feel vulnerable, a dissident feel targeted.
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