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The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 30-01-2020

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The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams | 30-01-2020

1. DEVOURING (NOUN/ADJ): (भक्षण): extremely strong and usually causes damage.

Synonyms: draining, depleting

Antonyms: conserving, preserving

Example Sentence:

I have no discipline when it comes to the immediate devouring of burritos.

2. CONSORTIUM (NOUN): (संघ): organization or banks joined together as a group

Synonyms: company, conference

Antonyms: disunion, separation

Example Sentence:

A consortium of banks is led by State Bank Of India.

3.INSISTENCE (NOUN): (आग्रह): demand, command

Synonyms: dictate, instruction

Antonyms: challenge, dispute

Example Sentence:

At his insistence she continued living with her mother.

4. CONTINGENT (NOUN/ADJ.): (आकस्मिक): subject to chance, accidental, unforeseen

Synonyms: delegacy, delegation

Antonyms: predictable, expected

Example Sentence:

Our success is contingent upon your support.

5. MORATORIUM (ADJ.): (रोक): a temporary prohibition of an activity, embargo.

Synonyms: abeyance, dormancy

Antonyms: renewal, resumption

Example Sentence:

They are proposing a five year moratorium on nuclear weapon testing.

6. DITHER (NOUN/VERB): (घबराहट): be indecisive, hesitate, state of agitation.

Synonyms: fluster, lather

Antonyms: calm, composure

Example Sentence:

I can't bear people who dither.

7. GRIM (ADJECTIVE): (भयंकर): Very serious, gloomy

Synonyms: stern, forbidding

Antonyms: amiable, pleasant

Example sentence:

The situation in the drought stricken region is grim.

8.RETROACTIVELY (ADVERB): (पुर्वव्यवी): with effect from a date before it was approved 

Synonyms: previous, prior

Antonyms: present, future

Example Sentence:

The new rates will apply retroactively from January 1.

9. CIPHER (NOUN):(शून्य) : Nonexistence

Synonyms: nonentity, nobody 

Antonyms: entity, somebody 

Example Sentence: 

He is worried of his cipher. 

10. HUNCH (NOUN): (सहज प्रवृत्ति): a humped position or thing, instinct;

Synonyms: intuition, premonition 

Antonyms: certainty, fact 

Example Sentence: 

The commentators had various hunches about the outcome of the next election.

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