Trending Vocabulary for SSC and Bank Exam

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1.Grapple

Meaning: fight without weapons

Synonym: clasp, clench

Sentence: “after a grapple with his conscience, he confessed to having an affair”

2. Incongruous

Meaning: not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation

Synonym: amiss 

Sentence: “there’s an incongruous modernism to the actor’s performance in this period piece”

3.Indomitable

Meaning: incapable of being defeated, overcome, or subdued

Synonym: bulletproof, invincible

Sentence: “an indomitable spirit was needed to endure the rigors of pioneer life.”

4.Meliorate

Meaning: to make better

Synonym: better, enhance

Sentence: “regulations intended to meliorate the working conditions of migrant farm 

laborers”

5.Persiflage

Meaning: good-natured teasing or exchanging of clever remarks

Synonym: backchat, jesting

Sentence:  “Her cunning persiflage hurt them.”

6. Relegate

Meaning: to force to leave a country

Synonym: deport, exile

Sentence:  “courtiers and generals who incurred the emperor’s disfavor were soon 

relegated to the farther reaches of the empire”

7.Rhapsody

Meaning: a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion

Synonym: cloud-nine

Sentence:  “listening to Mozart always left him in a rhapsody that lingered for the 

remainder of the evening”

8.Acerbity

Meaning: intended to cause hurt feelings

Synonym: acridness, acuteness 

Sentence: “the customer made his displeasure known with more acerbity than was 

necessary”

9.Juxtapose

Meaning: having a border in common

Synonym: adjoining, conterminous, flanking

Sentence: “the juxtaposed photographs of the country’s richest and poorest areas are 

a telling commentary on inequality”

10.Effrontery

Meaning: shameless boldness

Synonym: cockiness, cheekiness, pertness

Sentence: “the little squirt had the effrontery to deny eating any cookies, even 

with the crumbs still on his lips”