Bank & SSC Vocabulary For Competitive Exams
Here are the Important vocabulary for your Post Bank and SSC Exams and this portion is divided in some part so read all the parts.
1. SPATE (Noun)
Hindi Translations: झोंक
Meaning: a large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession.
Synonyms: deluge, flood, flurry, outpouring, string, succession
Antonyms: dribble, drip, trickle
Usage: A spate of words has been published on this controversial topic.
2. AMBIGUOUS (Noun)
Hindi Translations: अस्पष्ट
Meaning: having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning.
Synonyms: arcane, cryptic, dark, deep, Delphic, double-edged, elliptical
Antonyms: abstruse, esoteric, recondite
Usage: The exact reason for the change in plans is ambiguous, but I suspect it has something to do with money.
3. INSISTENCE (Noun)
Hindi Translations: आग्रह
Meaning: a solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of something
Synonyms: affirmation, assertion, asseveration, avouchment, declaration, profession, protestation
Antonyms: disavowal
Usage: We got to know by the continued insistence that there was a massive cover-up by the government.
4. SCOFF (Verb)
Hindi Translations: व्यंग्य
Meaning: speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way.
Synonyms: mock, deride, ridicule
Antonyms: flatter, praise, compliment
Usage: The rude rich boy thought it was fun to scoff at the poor people at his school.
5. REVERE (verb)
Hindi Translations: सम्मान
Meaning: feel deep respect or admiration for (something)
Synonyms: respect, admire, cherish, appreciate.
Antonyms: blaspheme, desecrate, profane, violate.
Usage: If you want to achieve any goal, revere the process & success will follow.
6. PROFANE(adjective)
Hindi Translations: अपवित्र
Meaning: vulgar and inappropriate
Synonyms: coarse, nasty
Antonyms: kind, polite
Usage: They have profaned the long upheld traditions of the Temple.
7. Concurrence (noun)
Hindi Translations: सन्निपतन
Meaning: the fact of two or more events or circumstances happening or existing at the same time.
Synonym: concordance, cooperation, coincidence.
Antonym: dissonance, discord.
Usage: Because the events ran in concurrence, the coordinator could not attend both parties at the same time.
8. Unprecedented (adjective)
Hindi Translations: अभूतपूर्व
Meaning: never done or known before.
Synonym: unequalled, unmatched, unrivalled.
Antonym: precedented, familiar, usual.
Usage: The damage caused by the hurricane is unprecedented and has never been experienced before in this country.
9. AGITATION (verb)
Hindi Translations: आंदोलन
Meaning: a state of anxiety or nervous excitement.
Synonym: anxiety, perturbation, disquiet
Antonym: calmness, relaxation
Usage: Payal entered the room with an agitated face.
10. Progenitor(Noun)
Hindi Translations: पूर्वज (संज्ञा)
Meaning: a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent.
Synonym: ancestor, a forefather
Antonym: descendant
Usage: Medus was regarded as the eponymous hero and progenitor of the Medes.
11. Incredulous(adjective)
Hindi Translations: बदगुमान (विशेषण)
Meaning: (of a person or their manner) unwilling or unable to believe something.
Synonym: disbelieving, unbelieving,
Antonym: credulous
Usage: I made an expression to show that I was as incredulous about this as he was.
12. Banishment(Noun)
Hindi Translations: निर्वासन (संज्ञा)
Meaning: the punishment of being sent away from a country or other place.
Synonym: deportation, displacement,
Antonym: repatriation, return
Usage: He regretted over the banishment imposed on him, five years ago.
13. Conundrum(Noun)
Hindi Translations: पहेली (संज्ञा)
Meaning: A difficult problem
Synonym: quandary, a dilemma
Antonym: proposition, solution
Usage: She faced the conundrum of finding a job without having experience in the desired field.
14. Inviolable(Adjective)
Hindi Translations: पवित्र (विशेषण)
Meaning: Secure from the violation or profanation
Synonym: unchallengeable, unbreakable,
Antonym: partial
Usage: Everyone has an inviolable right to protection by a fair legal system.
15. Vexatious(adjective)
Hindi Translations: अफ़सोसनाक (विशेषण)
Meaning: causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry.
Synonym: annoying, vexing
Antonym: delightful, pleasing
Usage: It was a vexatious summons, and none of them turned up.
16. SOJOURN (noun)
Hindi Translations: रास्ते का ठहराव (संज्ञा)
Meaning: a temporary stay at one place, esp. while travelling.
Synonyms: stay, tarry, visit, stopover.
Antonyms: journey, migration, departure, advance.
Usage: During Dean’s sojourn in Paris, he spent two weeks visiting all of the city’s cultural attractions.
17. XENOPHOBIC (adjective)
Hindi Translations: जातिवाद करनेवाला (विशेषण)
Meaning: having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
Synonyms: racist, racialist, ethnocentric, ethnocentrist.
Antonyms: bountiful, permissive, thoughtful, lenient.
Usage: As a result, the new parliament is distinctly more xenophobic and illiberal than its predecessor.
18. MURKY(Adjective)
Hindi Translations: संदिग्ध (विशेषण)
Meaning: dark and dirty or difficult to see through
Synonyms: cloudy, dark
Antonyms: bright, luminous
Usage: The river was brown and murky after the storm.
19. REPRISAL(Noun) :
Hindi Translations: प्रतिहिंसा
Meaning: an act of retaliation.
Synonym: retaliation, counterattack
Antonym: pardon, remission
Usage: He felt secure enough in his information that he announced his opinion on the matter without fear of reprisal.
20. CONCURRENCE (noun) :
Hindi Translations: सहमति
Meaning: the fact of two or more events or circumstances happening or existing at the same time.
Synonym: concordance, cooperation, coincidence.
Antonym: dissonance, discord.
Usage: Because the events ran in concurrence, the coordinator could not attend both parties at the same time.
21. CULMINATION (noun) :
Hindi Translations: परिणति
Meaning: the highest or climactic point of something, especially as attained after a long time.
Synonym: climax, pinnacle, peak.
Antonym: nadir, base, bottom.
Usage: Their arrest was the culmination of an operation in which 120 other people were detained.
22. INVIGORATE(Verb) :
Hindi Translations: सबल बनाना
Meaning: to give life, vigor, or spirit to
Synonym: amp (up), animate, brace, energize, enliven, fillip, fire
Antonym: damp, dampen, deaden, dull, kill
Usage: The fresh air and sunshine invigorated the children after a long winter indoors.
23. PLURALISM (noun) :
Hindi Translations: बहुलवाद
Meaning: the quality or state of being plural
Synonym: more than one, double, multiple.
Antonym: single, only one, one at a time.
Usage: He spoke of the benefits of cultural pluralism.
24. EVANGELIZE (noun) :
Hindi Translations: धर्मोपदेश देना
Meaning: to try to convert (a group or area) to a different religion (especially Christianity).
Synonym: lecture, platitudinize, preach, preachify, sermonize
Antonym: deconvert, dissuade, endure, hold, idle, keep
Usage: The missionaries set out to evangelize the world.
25. ABDICATE (Verb) :
Hindi Translations: सत्ता त्यागना
Meaning: (of a monarch) renounce one’s throne.
Synonyms: resign, retire
Usage: Because the mother chose to abdicate her role as a parent, her children have become the terrors of the neighbourhood.
26. EMBELLISH (verb) :
Hindi Translations: संवारना
Meaning: to make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality
Synonyms: adorn, deck
Antonyms: lessen, reduce
Usage: Grandma likes to embellish her knitting by hiding secret messages in the pattern.
27. FARRAGO (noun) :
Hindi Translations: गड़बड़ होना
Meaning: a confused mixture.
Synonyms: mishmash, jumble, hodgepodge, turmoil.
Antonyms: constituent, ravel, sequence, categorization.
Usage: The present gun law is a farrago of nonsense as most of it is unenforceable.
