Dear Students, SSC CGL 2017 Exam will be conducted from 1st August to 20 August 2017. Not much time left for the preparation. Sometimes in SSC CGL, vocab related questions are repeated, so you need to revise all the vocab notes at ssc adda and previous years vocab. 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.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.
Meaning: of or relating to dispossessed and uprooted individuals cut off from the economic and social class with which they might normally be identified.
Example: There are many within the Hurriyat who would consider talks again, just as there are many in the Valley who are worried about the lumpenisation of Islam that the stone-pelters represent.
3.Expound (verb)
Meaning: present and explain (a theory or idea) in detail.
synonyms: present, put forward, set forth, proffer, offer, advance, propose, propound, frame, give an account of, recount;
Example: But for the illuminating and exhaustive 86-page introduction expounding the judicial creativity and craftsmanship of the judge, K.K. Mathew would have been just one judge out of a roll-call of 186 judges who had sat in India’s Supreme Court.
4.Biblical (adjective)
Meaning: relating to or contained in the Bible.
Example: THE earliest known description of surrogacy is an ugly biblical story: in Genesis, the childless Sara sends her husband to bed with her maidservant, Hagar, and takes the child as her own.
5.Impetuousness (adjective)
Meaning: Acting or done quickly with little or inadequate thought.
Synonyms: impetuous, hasty, headlong, precipitate
Example: DONALD TRUMP rules over Washington as if he were a king and the White House his court. His displays of dominance, his need to be the centre of attention and his impetuousness have a whiff of Henry VIII about them.
6.Coherent (adjective)
Meaning: (of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent.
Synonyms: logical, reasoned, reasonable, well reasoned, rational, sound, cogent.
Example: In other words, a judge deciding such a dispute must test her interpretation by asking whether her decision could form part of a coherent theory that justifies the entire network of political structure and legal doctrine of their community.
7.Proliferation (noun)
Meaning: rapid increase in the number or amount of something., rapid reproduction of a cell, part, or organism.
Synonyms: rapid increase, multiplication, spread, escalation, expansion, build-up,
Example: The court did this by accepting as gospel truth the state’s arguments that the linking of Aadhaar and PAN can help eradicate the ills of tax evasion caused by a proliferation of black money.
8.Disdain (noun)
Meaning: the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect.
Synonyms: contempt, scorn, scornfulness, contemptuousness, derision, disrespect.
Example: The court showed a similar disdain in dismissing arguments made on the arbitrariness that is inherent in Section 139AA.
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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