Daily Vocabulary Words 16th September 2022: Improve Your Vocabulary with Antonyms & Synonyms

Daily Vocabulary Words: For most banking Aspirants, vocabulary is a nightmare but it carries a great amount of importance in every competitive exam. It is very important to have a good hold on the vocabulary to increase efficiency in the language section and also to increase your overall scores. That is why Adda247 has started a new initiative to improve the vocabulary of the aspirants with Visual vocabulary words and their meanings.

Daily Vocabulary Words

1. Leeway (noun)

            Meaning; A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility; margin,

Synonyms: freedom, scope

            Antonyms: restriction, constraint

2. Meed (noun)

Meaning; A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts

Synonyms: compensation

Antonyms: penalty

3. Wary (adjective)

Meaning; Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery

Synonyms; careful, attentive

Antonyms; careless, incautious

4. Oblivion (noun)

Meaning;  The state of forgetting completely, of being oblivious, unconscious, unaware, as when sleeping, drunk, or dead.

Synonyms: forgetness, unconsciousness

            Antonyms: consciousness, awareness

5. Macabre (adjective)

            Meaning; Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

Synonyms: ghastly, gruesome

Antonyms: attractive, appealing

6. Diligently (adverb)

            Meaning; In a diligent manner, with appropriate effort, carefully.

Synonyms: industrious, bustling

Antonyms: inactive, unoccupied

7. Meek (Adjective)

            Meaning; Humble, non-boastful, modest

Synonyms: passive

Antonyms: bold

Importance of Vocabulary Words in the English Language

• The reading comprehension from which 50% of the English language section questions are based requires the candidate to have good reading skills and requires a good hold on the English vocabulary. A good vocabulary will give the candidates of a better understanding of the comprehension which will benefit them in scoring maximum marks.
• A good vocabulary also helps a candidate to crack the interview round of the banking exams. The candidate can form a sentence perfectly if he/she has a good vocabulary.
• Apart from the reading comprehension section, there are multiple English tests where vocabulary can be used.