The Hindu Newspaper Vocabulary for SBI PO 2017

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Dear Students, we are providing to you Vocabulary Words from The HINDU Newspaper. We suggest you read a newspaper daily. In case if you are not able to read The Hindu, we will post important words every day from editorial section. These vocab words will help you a lot in your competitive exams.

1.Resuscitate

Meaning: revive (someone) from unconsciousness or apparent death.

Synonym: revive, resurrect, restore, regenerate, revitalize

Antonym: extinguish, kill, quench, suppress

Sentence: “an ambulance crew tried to resuscitate him”

2.Tenuous

Meaning: very weak or slight.

Synonym: slight, insubstantial, flimsy, negligible,

Antonym: convincing, substantial, strong

Sentence: “the tenuous link between interest rates and investment”

3.Terrestrial

Meaning: on or relating to the earth.

Synonym: earthly, worldly, mundane, earthbound

Antonym: cosmic, heavenly

Sentence: “increased ultraviolet radiation may disrupt terrestrial ecosystems”

4.Tempest

Meaning: a violent windy storm.

Synonym: storm, gale, squall, superstorm,

Sentence: “a raging tempest”

5.Reverberate

Meaning: (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo.

Synonym: resound, echo, re-echo, repeat, resonate, pulsate, vibrate,

Antonym: dampen, deaden, dull, quiet

Sentence: “her deep booming laugh reverberated around the room”

6.Revulsion

Meaning: a sense of disgust and loathing.

Synonym: disgust, repulsion, abhorrence,

Sentence:”news of the attack will be met with sorrow and revulsion”

7.Badinage

Meaning: humorous or witty conversation

Synonym: repartee

Sentence: “he developed a nice line in badinage with the Labour leader”

8.Banter

Meaning: the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.

Synonym: wisecracks, crosstalk, wordplay; More

Sentence:”there was much good-natured banter”

9.Banal

Meaning: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

Synonym: trite, hackneyed, clichéd, platitudinous

Antonym: original

Sentence: “songs with banal, repeated words”

10.Barbarian

Meaning: (in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great 

civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian).

Synonym: savage, uncivilized, barbaric, barbarous, primitive,

Sentence: “the city was besieged by the barbarians”

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