Daily Vocabulary Words 17th December 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. Vexatious (Adjective)
Meaning; Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.

Synonyms: irksome, annoying
Antonyms: pleasing, aiding
2. Formidable (adjective)
Meaning: Causing fear, Difficult to defeat

Antonyms; weak, comforting
Synonyms; terrible, daunting
3. Fraught (adjective)
Meaning; Distressed or causing distress

Synonyms: worried, distressed
Antonyms: calm, quiet

4. Reckon (verb)
Meaning; To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

Synonyms: estimate, consider
Antonyms: refuse, avoid
5. Shrug (noun)
Meaning; To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern.

Synonyms: disregard
Antonyms: agree
6. Rubric (noun)
Meaning; An established rule or custom; a guideline

Synonyms: course
Antonyms: disperse

7. Deplore (verb)
Meaning; To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.

Synonyms: lament, complain
Antonyms: commend, compliment

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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.

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