The Hindu Newspaper Editorial Vocabulary For IBPS 2017

उदहारण: The industry’s cup of woes has now brimmed over with the Darjeeling imbroglio, where a political shutdown has dealt a body blow to a tottering industry.

1. Woe [woh]- संकट 
Noun: grievous distress, affliction, or trouble; an affliction.
Interjection: an exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation.
Synonyms: adversity, anguish, burden, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, gloom, hardship, headache, misery, misfortune, pain, tragedy, trouble.
Antonyms: advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, boon, cheer, comfort, contentment, encouragement, favor, fortune, good, fortune.

2. Brim [brim] -कगार
Noun: the upper edge of anything hollow; rim; brink; a projecting edge; margin.
Verb: to be full to the brim.
Synonyms: border, brink, circumference, fringe, hem, lip, margin, perimeter, periphery, rim.
Antonyms: center, inside, interior, middle.


3. Imbroglio [im-brohl-yoh] -उलझन, जटिलता 
Noun: a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations; an intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a complicated or difficult situation; a confused heap.
Synonyms: brouhaha, entanglement, quandary, spat, squabble, altercation, argument, bickering, brawl, broil, complexity, complication, dispute, embarrassment.
Antonyms: agreement, ease, harmony, peace, simplicity, peace, making.


4. Tottering [tot-er-ing]-ढुलमुल, डगमगानेवाला 
Adjective: walking unsteadily or shakily; lacking security or stability; threatening to collapse; precarious.
Synonyms: dizzy, fluctuating, moving, suspect, teetering, unsettled, vacillating, wavering, weaving, ambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable.
Example: Sluggish global growth should prompt India to look inward — at augmenting public investment to spur demand.


5. Sluggish [sluhg-ish]-सुस्त
adjective: indisposed to action or exertion; lacking in energy; lazy; indolent; not acting or working with full vigor, as bodily organs; slow to act or respond; moving slowly, or having little motion, as a stream.
Synonyms: heavy, inactive, lethargic, listless, slack, slow, stagnant, apathetic, blah, comatose, dopey.
Antonyms: active, alert, busy, energetic, lively.


6. Prompt [prompt]-शीघ्र
Adjective: done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay; ready in action; quick to act as occasion demands; quick or alert.
Verb: to move or induce to action; to occasion or incite; inspire.
Synonyms: efficient, expeditious, immediate, instantaneous, precise, punctual, quick, rapid, speedy.
Antonyms: delayed, late, later, slow, sluggish.

7. Spur [spur]-प्रेरणा
Noun: a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward; anything that goads, impels, or urges, as to action, speed, or achievement.
Verb: to prick with or as if with a spur or spurs; incite or urge on; to strike or wound with the spur, as a gamecock; to furnish with spurs or a spur; to proceed hurriedly; press forward.
Synonyms: activation, actuation, catalyst, excitant, goad, goose, impetus, impulse.
Antonyms: block, deterrent, discouragement, hindrance, prevention.
Example: Rajasthan to set up eight business incubators.


8. Incubator [in-kyuh-bey-ter, ing-]-ऊष्मानियंत्रक, अंडे सेने की मशीन
Noun: an apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially; an enclosed apparatus in which prematurely born infants are kept in controlled conditions, as of temperature, for protection and care; an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultivated at a constant temperature.
Synonyms: incubator, breeding place.
Example: Tiger census on in Bangladesh Sundarbans.


9. Census [sen-suh s]-जनगणना
Noun: an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.; the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.
Verb: to take a census of.
Synonyms: enumeration, poll, demographics, demography, statistics, population tally, stats.
Example: Gujarat wobble seems like getting sorted before the next election there.


10. Wobble [wob-uh l]-झोंके खाना, डगमगा कर घूमना 
Verb: to incline to one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, or other rotating body when not properly balanced; to move unsteadily from side to side; to show unsteadiness; tremble; quaver.
Noun: a wobbling movement.
Synonyms: careen, falter, flounder, lurch, oscillate, quiver, reel, seesaw, shimmy, stumble, sway, teeter, totter, tremble.
Antonyms: be still, remain, stay, steady.