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As we all know that now a day’s in All Banking Exams and other competitive exams most of the English Sections were taken from Editorial pages. So it is essential to have a sound knowledge and understanding of English vocabulary. So here we are presenting you Vocabulary from “The Hindu”.
- Inexorably: In a way that is impossible to stop or prevent.
Synonyms: relentless, unstoppable, unavoidable, inescapable, inevitable, irrevocable, persistent, continuous, non-stop, steady, unabating, interminable, incessant, unceasing, unending, unremitting, unrelenting
Antonyms: gently, kindly, nicely
- Dissension: a lack of agreement or harmony
Synonyms: conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, discord (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division, friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare
Antonyms: concurrence, cooperation, accord, agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace
- Echelons: the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement
Synonyms: degree, rank, footing, level, place, position, ranking, reach(es), rung, situation, standing, station, status, stratum
Words Related: condition, estate, order, walk, capacity, function
- Reverberations: marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones
Synonyms: golden, orotund, plangent, resounding, resonant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant
Antonyms: faint, low, murmurous, muted, smothered, soft, weak, cavernous, hollow
- Subside: to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
Synonyms: abate, decline, de-escalate, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down) also rachet (down), recede, relent, remit, shrink, decrease, taper, taper off, wane
Antonyms: accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon (also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax
- Ferment: a disturbed or uneasy state
Synonyms: disquiet, unrest, fermentation, restiveness, restlessness, Sturm und Drang, turmoil, uneasiness, unquietness
Antonyms: calm, ease, peace, peacefulness, quiet, tranquillity (or tranquility)
- Perception: the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something
Synonyms: appreciation, apprehension, grasp, grip, hold, comprehension, percipience, understanding
Antonyms: incomprehension, noncomprehension, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misperception, misunderstanding
- Ominous: being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
Synonyms: baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threatening
Antonyms: auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous
- Concede: to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly
Synonyms: acknowledge, agree, allow, admit, confess, fess (up), grant, own (up to)
Antonyms: contradict, dispute, gainsay, negate, negative,. rebut, refute, reject, repudiate, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown
- Deliberations: a careful weighing of the reasons for or against something
Synonyms: account, advisement, debate, consideration, reflection, study, thought
Antonyms: short shrift
- Delineate: to draw or make apparent the outline of
Synonyms: define, outline, silhouette, sketch, trace
Antonyms: color, distort, falsify, garble, misdescribe, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp
- Compelling: having the power to persuade
Synonyms: cogent, conclusive, convincing, decisive, effective, forceful, persuasive, satisfying, strong, telling
Antonyms: inconclusive, indecisive, ineffective, uncompelling, unconvincing, unpersuasive
- Inexplicably: impossible to explain
Synonyms: inexplainable, unaccountable, unexplainable
Antonyms: accountable, explainable, explicable, confirmed, corroborated, determined, established, explained, substantiated, validated
- Convene: to bring together in assembly by or as if by command
Synonyms: assemble, call, convoke, muster, summon
Antonyms: break up, dissolve, disjoin, dissociate, disunite
- Fester: a small, inflamed swelling of the skin
Synonyms: boil, pock, hickey, papule, pimple, pustule, whelk, zit
Antonyms: build, grow, heal, delight, improve, dissipate, lessen
- Posterity: the descendants of a person, animal, or plant
Synonyms: fruit, get, issue, offspring, progeny, seed, spawn
Antonyms: ancestor, antecedent, father, forebear (also forbear), forebearer, forefather, grandfather, parent, primogenitor, progenitor
- Aberration: something that is different from what is ordinary or expected
Synonyms: anomaly, abnormality, exception, oddity, oddment, rarity
Antonyms: norm, ordinary, usual, mind, saneness, sanity, lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness
- Discomfited: to prevent from achieving a goal
Synonyms: baffle, balk, beat, checkmate, frustrate, foil, thwart
Antonyms: advance, cultivate, encourage, forward, foster, further, nurture, promote
- Introspection: examination of one’s own thoughts and feelings
Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination, self-observation, self-questioning, self-reflection, self-scrutiny, self-searching, soul-searching
Words Related: self-analysis, self-awareness, self-consciousness, self-recognition, contemplation, meditation, reflection, rumination
