Daily Vocabulary Words: For most banking Aspirants, vocabulary is a nightmare but it carries a great amount of importance in every competitive exam. It is very important to have a good hold on the vocabulary to increase efficiency in the language section and also to increase your overall scores. That is why Adda247 has started a new initiative to improve the vocabulary of the aspirants with Visual vocabulary words and their meanings.
Daily Vocabulary Words
1. Decimate (verb)
Meaning; To destroy
Synonyms: destroy, annihilate
Antonyms: build, construct
2. Abstruse (adjective)
Meaning; Difficult to comprehend or understand
Synonyms: rarefied, obscure
Antonyms: clear, evident
3. Paranoid (noun)
Meaning; Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others
Synonyms: suspicious, insecure
Antonyms: firm, secure
4. Stride (noun)
Meaning; To walk with long steps
Synonyms: progress, advance
Antonyms: failure, drop
5. Proclivity (noun)
Meaning; A predisposition or natural inclination
Synonyms: like, love
Antonyms: dislike, hate
6. Ingenuity (adjective)
Meaning; The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Synonyms: creativity, innovation
Antonyms: ordinary, usual
7. Reckon (verb)
Meaning; To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
Synonyms: consider
Antonyms: avoid
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Daily Vocabulary Words 9th January 2023
- Heave (verb)
Meaning; To lift with difficulty
Synonyms: pull, drag
Antonyms: push, hold
- Thrall (noun)
Meaning; One who is enslaved or under mind control.
Synonyms: slavery
Antonyms: mastery
- Choppy (adjective)
Meaning; Discontinuous, intermittent
Synonyms: turbulent, stormy
Antonyms: silent, calm
- Distend (verb)
Meaning; To extend or expand, as from internal pressure
Synonyms: expand
Antonyms: shrink
- Congeal (verb)
Meaning; To coagulate, make curdled
Synonyms: curdle, coagulate
Antonyms: melt, soften
- Wrinkle (noun)
Meaning; A line or crease in the skin
Synonyms: twist
Antonyms: tight
- Abstemious (adjective)
Meaning; temperance or moderation
Synonyms: moderate, temperate
Antonyms: voracious, intemperate
Daily Vocab 9th January 2023 PDF
Importance of Vocabulary Words in the English Language
- The reading comprehension from which 50% of the English language section questions are based requires the candidate to have good reading skills and requires a good hold on the English vocabulary. A good vocabulary will give the candidates of a better understanding of comprehension which will benefit them in scoring maximum marks.
- A good vocabulary also helps a candidate to crack the interview round of the banking exams. The candidate can form a sentence perfectly if he/she has a good vocabulary.
- Apart from the reading comprehension section, there are multiple English tests where vocabulary can be used.
