Daily Wordlist for IBPS/Other Bank Exam 2016

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1.Acrimony

Meaning: bitterness or ill feeling.

Synonym: ill feeling, ill will, bad blood, animosity, hostility, enmity,

Antonym: goodwill

Sentence:”the AGM dissolved into acrimony”

2.Ennui

Meaning: a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement

Synonym: boredom, tedium, listlessness,

Antonym: animation, contentment

Sentence: “he succumbed to ennui and despair”

3.Enigma

Meaning: a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.

Synonym: mystery, puzzle, riddle, conundrum, paradox

Sentence: “Madeleine was still an enigma to him”

4.Discernible

Meaning: able to be discerned; perceptible.

Synonym: visible, detectable, noticeable

Antonym: imperceptible

Sentence: “the scandal had no discernible effect on his career”

5.Auspicious

Meaning: conducive to success; favourable

Synonym: propitious, promising

Antonym: inauspicious

Sentence: “it was not the most auspicious moment to hold an election”

6.Aspersion

Meaning: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.

Synonym: denigration, defamation

Antonym: adulation, approval, commendation

Sentence: “I don’t think anyone is casting aspersions on you”

7.Abridge

Meaning: shorten (a book, film, speech, etc.) without losing the sense

Synonym: curtail, truncate, lessen, trim

Antonym: pad out, lengthened, expanded

Sentence: “an abridged text of his speech”

8. Allude

Meaning: suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at, mention without discussing at length.

Synonym: refer to, suggest, hint at, imply, mention,

Antonym: announce, declare, proclaim; elucidate, explain, spell out

Sentence: she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name”

9. Specious

Meaning: superficially plausible, but actually wrong., misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive

Synonym: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious,

Antonym: candid, direct, foursquare,

Sentence: “a specious argument” 

10. Solicit

Meaning: ask for or try to obtain (something) from someone, accost someone and offer one’s or someone else’s services as a prostitute.

Synonym: request, apply for, put in for, seek, beg, plead for,

Antonym: forewarn, ward (off), warn; drive (away or off), repulse, turn away

Sentence: “he called a meeting to solicit their views”

“although prostitution was not itself an offence, soliciting was”