Hello, Greetings!! SSC CGL Pre 2017 will commence in the month of June/July 2017. In order to help and guide all of you, we’re going to post VOCABULARY BASED ON THE HINDU NEWSPAPER. In all the competitive exams, Vocabulary questions are asked from newspapers.
1.Lacerate (verb)
Meaning: tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin).
criticize forcefully or severely.
Example: “the point had lacerated his neck”
“her true venom seems reserved for the media itself as she lacerates our obsession with celebrity”
Synonyms: cut (open), gash, slash, tear, rip, rend, mangle, mutilate,
2.Lambaste (verb)
Meaning: criticize (someone or something) harshly.
Example: “they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth”
synonyms: criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn
3.Larceny (noun)
Meaning: theft of personal property. In English law larceny was replaced as a statutory crime by theft in 1968.
Example: After finding his computer was not where he left it, he accused his sister of larceny.
synonyms: theft, stealing, robbery, pilfering, thieving, thievery, purloining
4.Lassitude (noun)
Meaning: a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.
Example: “she was overcome by lassitude and retired to bed”
synonyms: lethargy, listlessness, weariness, languor, sluggishness, enervation, tiredness,
5.Latency (noun)
Meaning: the state of existing but not yet being developed or manifest; concealment.
Example: “tension, and the latency of violence, make the greatest impressions”
6.Badinage
Meaning: humorous or witty conversation
Synonym: repartee
Sentence: “he developed a nice line in badinage with the Labour leader”
7.Banter
Meaning: the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.
Synonym: wisecracks, crosstalk, wordplay; More
Sentence:”there was much good-natured banter”
8. Sobriquet
Meaning: a person’s nickname.
Synonym: alias, byname, cognomen, epithet
Sentence: “she was a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet ‘Duchesse’”
9.Skulduggery
Meaning: underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.
Synonym: trickery, swindling, fraudulence
Sentence: “a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery”
10. Sinister
Meaning: giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen.
Synonym: menacing, threatening, ominous
Antonym: auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable
Sentence: “there was something sinister about that murmuring voice”
