Daily Wordlist for SBI Exam |

1.Dichotomy: a difference between two opposite things : a division into two opposite groups

Synonym:contradiction, incongruity, paradox

Usage:Her essay discusses the dichotomy between good and evil in the author’s novels.

2.Matrilineal: relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal line

Synonym: matrilinear, lineal, direct

Usage:a matrilineal society

3.Brutish: cruel, violent, and stupid : resembling or suggesting a beast

Synonym: animalistic, beastly, brutal,

Usage:She is married to a brutish, drunken slob

4.Assimilate: to learn (something) so that it is fully understood and can be used

Synonym:analogize, compare, bracket,

Usage:There was a lot of information to assimilate at school.

5.Docile: easily taught, led, or controlled

Synonym:obedient, law-abiding, submissive,

Usage:His students were docile and eager to learn.

6.Acquiesce: to accept, agree, or allow something to happen by staying silent or by not arguing

Synonym:accede, agree, assent,

Usage:They demanded it, and he acquiesced.

7.Quotidian: ordinary or very common,done each day

Synonym:commonplace, everyday, familiar

Usage:plagued by a quotidian coughing fit, the result of years of smoking.

8.Juggle: to keep several objects in motion in the air at the same time by repeatedly throwing and catching them

Synonym:artifice, device, dodge, fetch

Usage:He juggled four balls at once.

9.Umpteen: very many, indefinitely numerous

Synonym:innumerable; many.

Usage:”you need umpteen pieces of identification to cash a cheque

10.Patriarch: a man who heads a family, group, or government, a respected old man

Synonym:antediluvian, forefather,

Usage:Our grandfather was the family’s patriarch.

Daily Wordlist for SBI Exam