The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS PO 2017

Vocabulary is an important part of English that helps you deal with all kinds of questions in objective as well as descriptive papers of various exams. You can learn new words daily from our Daily Word List. Learn the words and make your own sentences on the basis of the given word list. Here are a few lines from The Hindu.

Example/उदाहरण: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office over undeclared assets and ordered registration of corruption cases against him and his children, plunging the country into a political turmoil.

1. Plunge [pluhnj]-डुबकी/प्रवेश करना

Verb/संज्ञा: to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge; to bring suddenly or forcibly into some condition, situation, etc.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: revealing, shocking, decollete, deep-cut, décolleté, low-cut, low-hanging, low-neck.

Example/उदाहरण: Exodus to hurt Ahmed Patel’s RS hopes.

2. Exodus [ek-suh-duh s]-निर्गमन/निष्क्रमण

Noun/संज्ञा: a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people; the Exodus, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under Moses.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: departure, evacuation, flight, migration, withdrawal, egress, egression, emigration, exit, journey, retirement.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: stay, arrival, arriving, coming.

Example/उदाहरण: Odisha remains at the top with total cumulative collection of 1,932.5 crore followed by Jharkhand with 1,056.2 crore and Chhattisgarh with 1,042 crore.

3. Cumulative [kyoo-myuh-luh-tiv, -ley-tiv]-संचयी 

Adjective/विशेषण: increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions; formed by or resulting from accumulation or the addition of successive parts or elements; of or relating to interest or dividends that, if not paid when due, become a prior claim for payment in the future.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: aggregate, increasing, accumulative, additive, additory, advancing, amassed, augmenting, chain, collective, heaped, heightening.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: decreasing, subtracting.

Example/उदाहरण: With the Janata Dal(U) winning a vote of confidence in the Bihar Assembly with the help of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday, a change in the balance of power in the Rajya Sabha seems to be in the offing.

4. Offing [aw-fing, of-ing]-समुद्र का किनारा 

Noun/संज्ञा: the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground; a position at a distance from shore.

Idioms, in the offing: at a distance but within sight; in the projected future; likely to happen

Example/उदाहरण: ‘Dialogue, democracy in peril’.

5. Peril [per-uh l]-जोखिम/आपदा 

Noun/संज्ञा: exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger; something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction.

Verb/क्रिया: to expose to danger; imperil; risk.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: hazard, insecurity, jeopardy, menace, pitfall, uncertainty, vulnerability, endangerment, exposure.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: certainty, protection, safety, safeness, security.

Example/उदाहरण: Defence Minister tells Lok Sabha that any shortage of ammunition will be expeditiously taken care of.

6. Expeditious [ek-spi-dish-uh s]-शीघ्र 

Adjective/विशेषण: characterized by promptness; quick.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: ardently, assiduously, carefully, diligently, eagerly, earnestly, energetically, enthusiastically, hastily, hurriedly, laboriously.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: idly, inactively, quietly.

Example/उदाहरण: Showdown looms in crisis-hit Venezuela.

7. Loom [loom]-करघा/धुंधला दिखाई देना

Verb/क्रिया: to appear indistinctly; come into view in indistinct and enlarged form; to rise before the vision with an appearance of great or portentous size; to assume form as an impending event.

Noun/संज्ञा: a looming appearance, as of something seen indistinctly at a distance or through a fog.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: brew, come on, dominate, emerge, hover, mount, overshadow, portend, soar, stand out, threaten, approach, await.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: decline, fall, leave, abandon.

Example/उदाहरण: Maduro issued a decree banning protests and warning that anyone who marches against his planned election of a “Constituent Assembly” risks up to 10 years in prison.

8. Decree [dih-kree]-डिक्री/हुक्मनामा 

Noun/संज्ञा: a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the force of law; Law. a judicial decision or order.

Verb/क्रिया: to command, ordain, or decide by decree.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: act, announcement, directive, edict, injunction, instruction, judgment, law, order, proclamation, regulation.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: answer, disorganization, lawlessness.

Example: Scaramucci tirade ignites smouldering WH tensions.

9. Tirade [tahy-reyd, tahy-reyd]-निंदा-भाषण

Noun/संज्ञा: a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation; a long, vehement speech; a passage dealing with a single theme or idea, as in poetry.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: denunciation, diatribe, harangue, invective, ranting, screed, sermon, anger, berating, censure.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: compliment, praise, calm, harmony, peace.

10. Smoulder [smohl-der]-सुलगना 

Verb/क्रिया: to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion; to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration; to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like.

Noun/संज्ञा: dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion; a smoldering fire.

Synonyms/पर्यायवाची: boil, erupt, explode, fester, seethe, bubble, churn, consume, ferment, fulminate.

Antonyms/विलोमार्थी: be happy, freeze.

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