HINDU Newspaper Vocabulary for IPPB mains 2017

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1.Prelude

Meaning: an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.

Synonym: preliminary, overture, opening, preparation

Antonym:conclusion, postscript

Sentence: “a ceasefire had been agreed as a prelude to full peace negotiations”

2.Premonition

Meaning: a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something 

unpleasant.

Synonym: foreboding, presage, presentiment, prognostication

Sentence: “he had a premonition of imminent disaster”

3.Preponderance

Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance.

Synonym: prevalence, predominance, dominance 

Sentence: “the preponderance of women among older people”

4. Soporific

Meaning: tending to induce drowsiness or sleep., a drug or other substance that 

induces drowsiness or sleep.

Synonym: sleeping pill, sleeping potion, sedative, calmative, narcotic, opiate;

Antonym: invigorating, stimulant

Sentence: “the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect”

5. Orthodox

Meaning: following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules 

or beliefs of a religion, philosophy, or practice.

Synonym: conservative, traditional, observant, conformist

Antonym: unconventional, unorthodox, nonconformist

Sentence: “Burke’s views were orthodox in his time”

6.Puerile

Meaning: childishly silly and immature

Synonym: jejune, infantile 

Antonym: mature, adult

Sentence: “a puerile argument”

7.Perennial

Meaning: lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring

Synonym: everlasting, perpetual, eternal,

Antonym: ceasing, ending, halting, infrequent, intermittent, interrupted, occasional, temporary

Sentence:”his perennial distrust of the media”

8.Perdition

Meaning: (in Christian theology) a state of eternal punishment and damnation into 

which a sinful and unrepentant person passes after death

Synonym: damnation, eternal punishment;

Sentence:”she used her last banknote to buy herself a square meal before 

perdition”

9. Penury

Meaning: the state of being very poor; extreme poverty.

Synonym: pennilessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence,

Antonym: wealth, affluence

Sentence: “he couldn’t face another year of penury”

10.Laggard

Meaning: a person who makes slow progress and falls behind others.

Synonym: straggler, loiterer, lingerer,

Sentence: “staff were under enormous pressure and there was no time for 

laggards”

 

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