Daily Vocabulary: 3rd January 2020

To strengthen the crust and core of your English language, what you need is new and effective words added to your dictionary every day. This is a tedious task if you sit with the dictionary every day. Adda247 brings to you a compact way of learning constantly and efficiently. This is today’s Vocabulary for the aspirants who are preparing for the various banking examinations. SBI Clerk, LIC Assistant Mains, IBPS RRB, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk are some of the upcoming examinations which can be prepared with the aid of daily Vocabulary. Vocab will help you excel not just in the examinations but will help you sail through the Interview round of the examinations you are preparing for. The words you choose will accelerate you in the correct path towards success and we hope that this article serves the purpose. Here is the vocabulary for 3rd January 2019.

INSISTENCE (Noun) : आग्रह
Meaning: a solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of something
Synonyms: affirmation, assertion, asseveration, avouchment, declaration, profession, protestation
Antonyms: disavowal
Usage: We got to know by the continued insistence that there was a massive cover-up by the government.

EGALITARIAN (Noun) : समानाधिकारवादी
Meaning: one who advocates or practices social equality.
Synonyms: democrat, leveler
Antonyms: snob, snoot
Usage: As egalitarians, some people have always promoted policies for equal pay.

ENCOMPASS (Verb) : धरना
Meaning: to form a circle around
Synonyms: circle, compass, embrace, encircle, enclose
Antonyms: exclude, leave (out), miss out
Usage: A necklace of sapphire-blue lakes encompasses the town.

PRIGGISH (adjective) : परोपदेशक
Meaning: self-righteously moralistic and superior.
Synonyms:  smug, sanctimonious, moralistic, prudish.
Antonyms: broad-minded, permissive, overstrung, uptight.
Usage: After living with his wife for 30 years, the husband was tired of the nagging and demands made by his priggish woman.

AIL (verb)  :  सताना
Meaning: trouble or afflict (someone) in mind or body.
Synonyms: trouble, bother, burden, distress.
Antonyms: heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness.
Usage: All patients can do is trust that the strangers on their health care team are competent and caring enough to do their best to help correct whatever ails the patient.

SWATHE (noun) : लपेटना
Meaning: a large part of something that includes several different things.
Synonyms: envelope, stretch, area, track.
Antonyms: brink, border, boundary, margin.
Usage: These people represent a broad swathe of public opinion.

HIATUS (Noun) : ख़ाली जगह
Meaning: a pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity.
Synonyms: pause, break, interval, interruption, suspension
Antonyms: closure, juncture, misfortune
Usage: The professor will take his family on a long vacation during his hiatus.

MACHINATIONS (noun) : साजिश
Meaning: crafty schemes; plots; intrigues.
Synonyms: conspiracy, intrigue, ploy, ruse, stratagem
Antonyms: frankness, honesty, ignorance
Usage: The con artist’s victims quickly fell for his easy money machination.

ATROCITIES (noun) : अत्याचार
Meaning: the quality or state of being extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal.
Synonyms: barbarity, horror
Antonyms: good behavior, kindness, pleasantness
Usage: In the popular drama of Punch, we observe a perfect climax of atrocities and horrors.

IMPUNITY (noun) : दण्ड मुक्ति
Meaning: exemption from punishment.
Synonyms: immunity, dispensation, exception, exemption.
Antonyms: denial, prohibition, veto, imprisonment, incarceration
Usage: My work may be of none, but I must not think it of any, or I shall not do it with impunity.

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