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.
Meaning: crouch or sit with one's knees bent and one's heels close to or touching one's buttocks or the back of one's thighs.
Synonyms: crouch (down), hunker (down), sit on one's haunches, sit on one's heels, sit, bend down, bob down, duck down, hunch.
Example: Two farmers, squatting on their haunches, are eating roti in a lush, green field. Their bulls are grazing around them on a rainy day in Uttar Pradesh.
Meaning: a hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between opposing parties.
Synonyms: conflict, clash, brush, fight, battle, contest, encounter, head-to-head, face-off, engagement, tangle, skirmish, collision, meeting, duel, incident.
Example: The confrontation was ostensibly sparked after a domestic worker called Zohra Bibi went ‘missing’.
3.Vandalize (verb)
Meaning: deliberately destroy or damage (public or private property).
Synonyms: defacement, defacing, trashing, vandalization
Antonyms: conservation, preservation, protection, salvage, saving
Example: Stones were pelted, police had to be brought in and security officers’ cabins were vandalised. An urban class conflict, playing out on Facebook timelines and in Whatsapp videos.
4.Capricious (adjective)
Meaning: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
Synonyms: fickle, inconstant, changeable, variable, unstable, mercurial, volatile, erratic, vacillating, irregular, inconsistent, fitful, arbitrary.
Example: The reasons supplied by the petitioners on why the linking of Aadhaar and PAN is capricious were wholly ignored. For example, the judgment failed to heed to the fact that the consequences of an invalidation of a person’s PAN might result in a virtual “civil death”, as the senior counsel Arvind P. Datar, who represented one of the petitioners, described the provision.
5.Proclivity (noun)
Meaning: a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition towards a particular thing.
Synonyms: liking, inclination, tendency, leaning, disposition, propensity, bent, bias, penchant, predisposition, predilection, partiality, preference, fondness, weakness,
Example: Now, it’s plain to see that even if Parliament represents the interests of the people, any legislation made by it is a product of the proclivities of the government in power.
6.Affluent (adjective)
Meaning: (especially of a group or area) having a great deal of money; wealthy.
Synonyms: wealthy, rich, prosperous, opulent, well off, moneyed, cash rich, with deep pockets, well-to-do, comfortable.
Antonyms: poor, impoverished
Example: The first thing which strikes one about Mahagun Moderne are the names of the towers. Spread over 25-acres and marketed as homes which “mirror the taste of affluent class”, Mahagun Moderne has 2,000 occupied flats.
7.Ruckus (noun)
Meaning: a row or commotion.
Synonyms: cacophony, clamor, din, howl, hue and cry, noise, outcry, racket, roar.
Antonyms: calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility); order, orderliness.
Example: Most Mahagun residents are keeping a track of developments over the past week using a common group, with videos, counter-videos and images being circulated as ‘evidence’. Or to speculate, whose domestic worker could possibly have been involved in the ruckus.
8.Legatee (noun)
Meaning: a person who receives a legacy.
Synonyms: beneficiary, inheritor, heir, heiress, recipient, receiver, payee, assignee.
Example: Meanwhile, those indulging in acts of terror appear to have moved beyond the earlier non-traditional, non-state actors who were legatees of the Afghan Jihad (1979-1989). The new breed of radicalised terrorists is not overly dependent on external sponsors or state support. Their inspiration is different.
9.Puritanical (adjective)
Meaning: having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-
indulgence or sex.
Synonyms: moralistic, pietistic, strait-laced, tight-laced, stuffy, starchy, prissy, prudish, puritan, prim, priggish, Victorian, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, old-maidish, narrow-minded.
Example: These exist, notwithstanding the fact that the IS, for instance, preaches an exclusive brand of puritanical Islam alongside a vision of a new Caliphate, while some of the other terrorist organisations do not fully subscribe to this ideal.
10.Intractable (adjective)
Meaning: hard to control or deal with.
Synonyms: unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of control, out of hand, impossible to cope with.
Example: A signal in this direction will go a long way in tamping down the violent agitation. It should also abandon its wishful thinking that shortcuts can solve the intractable Gorkhaland issue, which is culturally rooted.
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