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.Pretension (noun)
Meaning: 1.a claim or assertion of a claim to something.
synonyms: aspiration, claim, assertion, pretence, profession, purporting
Meaning: 2.the use of affectation to impress; pretentiousness.
synonyms: pretentiousness, affectation, affectedness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, artificiality, attitudinizing, airs, posing, posturing, showing off, hypocrisy, snobbery.
Example: We always had that dark side to our socio-political self: the current political environment has merely enabled those dark forces to unveil our pretensions of civilisational sanctimoniousness.
2.Brooding (adjective)
Meaning: engaged in or showing deep thought about something that makes one sad, angry, or worried., appearing darkly menacing.
Example: “Just as a body must be cremated and cannot be brought back home, so must farm produce be sold,” says a brooding Jagdish Patidar, a farmer from Maheshwar on the banks of the Narmada in Madhya Pradesh.
3.Vicious (adjective)
Meaning: deliberately cruel or violent.
Synonyms: brutal, ferocious, savage, violent, dangerous, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, heartless, callous, cruel, harsh, cold-blooded, inhuman, fierce, barbarous, barbaric, brutish, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, fiendish, sadistic, monstrous.
Example: Mr. Patidar list the reasons — farmers do not have the space to store their produce; returning [with unsold produce] from the market would entail additional transportation costs; and most importantly, they need the money. It is here that the vicious cycle of the farmers’ crisis begins as they are forced to sell their produce cheaply.
4.Reshuffle (verb)
Meaning: interchange the positions of (members of a team, especially government ministers).
synonyms: reorganize, restructure, change, change around, change the line-up of, shake up, rearrange, interchange, shuffle, regroup, rejig, redistribute.
Example: The recent cabinet reshuffle in Odisha by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to be clearly aimed at preparing his Biju Janata Dal (BJD) for the impending clash with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2019 Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the State.
5.Surmount (verb)
Meaning: overcome (a difficulty or obstacle).
synonyms: overcome, conquer, get over, prevail over, triumph over, get the better of, beat, vanquish.
Example: The obstacles Goswami has had to surmount, though, are perhaps more formidable than what Gavaskar had to counter, in the sense that hers is also a contest against a patriarchal system steeped in gender prejudices.
6.Umpteen (number)
Meaning: indefinitely many; a lot of.
Example: This is accomplished when one repeatedly tries to see the one absolute consciousness hidden in all forms and aspects of creation. With repeated practise, awareness comes up, that all the senses and their umpteen objects, mind and body, are a manifestation of absolute consciousness. The mind then gives up craving, it reflects this one consciousness and stays in perfect balance.
7.Unabashed (adjective)
Meaning: not embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
synonyms: unashamed, shameless, unembarrassed, brazen, audacious, barefaced, blatant, flagrant, bold, bold as brass, confident, immodest, unblushing, unrepentant, undaunted,
Example: There is a great deal more unabashed aggression and hostility in the collective life of our nation today than ever before: the language of aggression is unmissable, be it in our political discourse, TV studios, passenger buses or marketplaces.
8.Manipulative (adjective)
Meaning: exercising unscrupulous control or influence over a person or situation.
Synonyms: scheming, calculating, cunning, crafty, wily, shrewd, devious, designing, conniving, unscrupulous, disingenuous.
Example: Such a value spontaneously brings in the power to give, to contribute and to serve. You should not only contribute to each other in a team but also to the customer, not just in manipulative words and smiles, but from the value of truly contributing.
9.Assiduously (adverb)
Meaning: with great care and perseverance.
Example: Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first Prime Minister from a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh background but he was accommodative, not secular. While Nehru wanted a left-aligned India, Mr. Modi is working assiduously to move it towards the right.
10.Iteration (noun)
Meaning: the repetition of a process or utterance., a new version of a piece of computer hardware or software., a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result.
Example: It is on display in the Bay of Bengal, where one of the largest-ever iterations of the Malabar exercise series is getting underway with aircraft carriers/helicopter carrier from India, the U.S., and Japan. We see it also in this weekend’s news, reported in this newspaper, that the government is conducting a national security review of Chinese investment in South Asia. Perhaps, in the coming weeks, 17 Corps will suddenly find that the purse strings have become looser too.
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