Dear Students, The SSC CGL Tier-1 2017 Exam will start from 5th August to 24 August 2017. 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 questions. Continue reading newspapers or novels. 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.
Example: Indeed, the Union government has seemingly been so enthralled by its own enactment that it rolled out the tax on July 1 by organising an extraordinary midnight session of Parliament.
1. Enthrall [en-thrawl]
Verb: to captivate or charm; to put or hold in slavery; subjugate.
Synonyms: beguile, bewitch, enchant, enrapture, fascinate, hypnotize, intrigue, mesmerize, preoccupy.
2. Enactment [en-akt-muh nt]
Noun: the act of enacting; the state or fact of being enacted; something that is enacted; a law or statute; a single provision of a law.
Synonyms: achievement, acting, depiction, execution, impersonation, performance, personation, personification, playing, portrayal.
Antonyms: failure, neglect, block, disallowance, hindrance.
Example: Or, as some others have described it, the GST is a product of a pooled sovereignty, where the States have voluntarily waived some of the critical fiscal powers that they hitherto enjoyed under the Constitution.
3. Pool [pool]
Noun: the total amount staked by a combination of bettors, as on a race, to be awarded to the successful bettor or bettors; the combination of such bettors; an association of competitors who agree to control the production, market, and price of a commodity for mutual benefit, although they appear to be rivals; Finance. a combination of persons or organizations for the purpose of manipulating the prices of securities; the combined interests or funds.
Verb: to put (resources, money, etc.) into a pool, or common stock or fund, as for a financial venture, according to agreement; to form a pool of; to make a common interest of.
Synonyms: basin, bath, lagoon, lake, pond, puddle, swimming pool, tank, mere.
Antonyms: lack, want.
4. Sovereignty [sov-rin-tee, suhv-]
Noun: the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority; the status, dominion, power, or authority of a sovereign;royal rank or position; royalty; supreme and independent power or authority in government as possessed or claimed by a state or community; rightful status, independence, or prerogative.
Synonyms: dominance, jurisdiction, supremacy, ascendancy, ascendant, dominion, preeminence, prepotency, primacy.
Antonym: submission.
5. Waive [weyv]
Verb: to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo; to waive honors; Law. to relinquish (a known right, interest, etc.) intentionally; to put aside for the time; defer; postpone; dispense with:
to waive formalities; to put aside or dismiss from consideration or discussion.
Synonyms: abandon, allow, defer, forgo, grant, hand over, postpone, put off, reject, relinquish, remove, renounce.
Antonyms: approve, carry out, continue, deny, do.
6. Hitherto [hith -er-too]
Adverb: up to this time; until now; to here.
Synonyms: attendant, attending, hither, present, available, hereabouts, in this direction, on board, on deck, on hand.
Antonym: there.
Example: The rhetoric here can sound forceful.
7. Rhetoric [ret-er-ik]
Noun: (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast; the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech; the study of the effective use of language; the ability to use language effectively; the art of prose in general as opposed to verse.
Synonyms: hyperbole, oratory, address, balderdash, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence.
Antonyms: quiet, conciseness.
Example: The resultant withering of the States’ fiscal independence strikes at the core of the Constitution’s basic structure which the Supreme Court has held is inviolable.
8. Wither [with -er]
Verb: to shrivel; fade; decay; to lose the freshness of youth, as from age (often followed by away); to make flaccid, shrunken, or dry, as from loss of moisture; cause to lose freshness, bloom, vigor, etc; to affect harmfully; to abash, as by a scathing glance.
Synonyms: decaying, drooping, fading, shrinking, wilting.
9. Strike [strahyk]
Verb: to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit; to inflict, deliver, or deal (a blow, stroke, attack, etc.); to drive so as to cause impact.
Synonyms: beat, collide, crash, drive, force, knock, pummel, punch, smack, touch, bang.
Antonyms: surrender, lose, miss, not touch, pass up, tap.
10. Inviolable [in-vahy-uh-luh-buh l]
Adjective: prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration; incapable of being violated; incorruptible; unassailable.
Synonyms: sacrosanct, holy, sacred.
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