HINDU Newspaper Vocabulary for RBI ASSISTANT MAINS Exams 2017

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1.Versatile

Meaning: able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.

Synonym: flexible, all-round, multifaceted, multitalented,

Antonym: inflexible, limited

Sentence: “a versatile sewing machine”

2.Vernacular

Meaning: the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.

Synonym: everyday language, spoken language, colloquial speech, slang

Sentence: “he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience”

3.Puerile

Meaning: childishly silly and immature

Synonym: jejune, infantile 

Antonym: mature, adult

Sentence: “a puerile argument”

4.Reverberate

Meaning: (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo.

Synonym: resound, echo, repeat, resonate, pulsate, vibrate,

Antonym: dampen, deaden, dull, quiet

Sentence: “her deep booming laugh reverberated around the room”

5.Revulsion

Meaning: a sense of disgust and loathing.

Synonym: disgust, repulsion, abhorrence,

Sentence:”news of the attack will be met with sorrow and revulsion”

6.Badinage

Meaning: humorous or witty conversation

Synonym: repartee

Sentence: “he developed a nice line in badinage with the Labour leader”

7.Banter

Meaning: the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks.

Synonym: wisecracks, crosstalk, wordplay; More

Sentence:”there was much good-natured banter”

8. Sobriquet

Meaning: a person’s nickname.

Synonym: alias, byname, cognomen, epithet

Sentence: “she was a vast and haughty person who answered to the sobriquet ‘Duchesse’”

9. Sombre

Meaning: having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness

Synonym: solemn, earnest, serious,

Antonym: cheerful, bright

Sentence: “he looked at her with a sombre expression”

10. Solvent

Meaning: having assets in excess of liabilities; able to pay one’s debts.

Synonym: financially sound, able to pay one’s debts, debt-free

Antonym: in debt

Sentence: “interest rate rises have very severe effects on normally solvent companies”