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.Blistering (adjective)
Meaning: (of heat) intense., extremely fast, forceful, or impressive. ,(of criticism) expressed with great vehemence.
Synonyms: intense, extreme, ferocious, fierce, acute, strong, very great;savage, vicious, fierce, bitter, severe, sharp, harsh, scathing, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, cutting, biting, stinging, searing, withering, virulent, vitriolic, very fast, breakneck.
Example: After two blistering knocks in the early stages of the ongoing ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in England, left-handed opening bat Smriti Mandhana grabbed most of the headlines. Her 72-ball 90 helped India floor England, host and favourites, in the opening match on June 24, and she followed this up with an elegant, unbeaten, match-winning 106 against the West Indies.
Meaning: a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something.
Example: At the age of 15, Mandhana displayed a penchant for big scores, recording three centuries and a double-century for the Maharashtra under-19 team in the West Zone one-day tournament. This included an unbeaten 224 off 150 balls against Gujarat. She earned her maiden India call-up a couple of years later.
3.Reinforcement (noun)
Meaning: the action or process of reinforcing or strengthening., the process of encouraging or establishing a belief or pattern of behaviour.
Synonyms: augmentation, increase, supplementing, boosting, swelling, building up, build-up, topping up
Example: During the Big Bash League, Mandhana injured her knee, and it was later revealed that she had ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). This forced her out of action for five months, which took a toll on her self-confidence. Tambwekar admits Mandhana was hugely demotivated during that period and says his only task was to make her mentally strong through constant positive reinforcement.
4.Pronounced (adjective)
Meaning: very noticeable or marked; conspicuous.
Synonyms: noticeable, marked, strong, conspicuous, striking, distinct, decided, definite, prominent, notable, unmistakable, inescapable, obvious, evident, plain, clear, recognizable, identifiable;
Example: There’s an ongoing debate on the relative role of greenhouse gases, such as water vapour and carbon dioxide, and aerosols in their influence over the South Asian monsoon. To step back a bit, monsoon clouds gust into the mainland due to a pronounced difference in temperature between the land and the sea.
5.Stringent (adjective)
Meaning: (of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting.
Synonyms: strict, firm, rigid, rigorous, severe, harsh, tough, tight, exacting, demanding, inflexible, stiff, hard and fast, uncompromising, draconian, extreme
Example: India has generally maintained that man-made carbon dioxide pollution is largely due to the years of pollution by the developed West. However, such an argument might weaken if aerosols were brought into the picture because this is a largely South Asian concern. Were carbon dioxide and aerosol interactions proven to be strongly linked, India could be under pressure to adopt more stringent climate-proofing policies.
6.Anomalous (adjective)
Meaning: deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected.
Synonyms: abnormal, atypical, non-typical, irregular, aberrant, exceptional, freak, freakish, odd, bizarre, peculiar, unusual, out of the ordinary, inconsistent, incongruous, deviant, deviating, divergent, eccentric;
Example: Persistent aerosol emissions might lead to more instances of moderate rainfall but could mean anomalous weather and health hazards over large parts of north India. The aerosol-greenhouse gas relationship in exacerbating climate change is an old area of research but teasing out the relative contribution of each is challenging and influences the costs countries must incur to address them.
7.Commemorate (verb)
Meaning: recall and show respect for (someone or something).
mark or celebrate (an event or person) by doing or producing something.
Synonyms: celebrate, pay tribute to, pay homage to, honour, salute, toast.
Example: On June 21, Mysuru’s yoga practitioners made headlines after 54,101 of them performed asanas on the turf of the expansive Mysuru Race Course on the foothills of Chamundi to commemorate the third International Day of Yoga. It missed making it to the Guinness Book of World Records but the event highlighted the fact that Mysuru is becoming a yoga hub.
8.Erstwhile (adjective)
Meaning: former.
Synonyms: former, old, past, one-time, sometime, as was, ex-, late, then;
Example: Mysuru attracts a lot of tourists. Once the capital of the kingdom of Mysore, at its heart lies the Mysore Palace, seat of the erstwhile rulers, the Wadiyars. Mysuru is also the gateway to several national parks. Other than tourism, another reason for foreigners to visit Mysuru is yoga. Like Rishikesh in Uttarakhand and Pune in Maharashtra, which are important yoga destinations, Mysuru attracts many foreign nationals who want to learn the ancient art. Not just international visitors, enthusiasts from metros and IT sectors from key Indian cities also visit Mysuru to learn the ancient practice from yoga gurus.
9.Feebly (adverb)
Meaning: in a way that lacks strength or force., in a way that fails to convince or impress.
Example: If some wrong is done to people close to us, to our family or friends, we respond with utter horror, as we must. Why then do we react feebly or, worse, not at all when people beyond our little community are treated cruelly?
10.Denunciation (noun)
Meaning: public condemnation of someone or something., the action of informing against someone.
Example: Why is it that instead of a chorus of straightforward condemnation, we confront moral indifference or troublesome public statements such as that we must first or also condemn other instances of brutality in the past? Imagine Nirbhaya’s mother being told in the aftermath of the dastardly incident that any denunciation of what happened is conditional: we must in the same breath also condemn all brutal rapes in the past. The moral coarseness of this response simply jumps to the eye.
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