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Vocabulary - 24.03.2016

Bankers Guru
Vocabulary - 24.03.2016
1. FIDELITY (NOUN): Faithfulness to a person

Synonyms: devotion, obedience

Antonyms: treachery disloyalty

Example sentence:

For many fidelity to a religion creed is admirable.


2. GROVEL (VERB): lie or crawl

Synonyms: beseech, fawn Antonyms: ignore, answer

Example sentence:

They criticized leaders who grovelled for foreign patrons.


3. PALLIATE (VERB): to reduce the severity

Synonyms: abate, cover up Antonyms: enlarge expose 

Example sentence:

The doctor trusted that the new medication would palliate her patient's discomfort.


4. AMBIVALENCE (NOUN): the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas

Synonyms: doubt irresolution Antonyms: sureness, decisiveness

Example sentence :

The judge's ambivalence about the defendant's guilt caused a delay in the penalty portion of the trial.


5. ORDEAL ( NOUN): unpleasant and prolonged expirience

Synonym: difficulty, trouble

Antonyms: comfort, peace

Example sentence:

This article had a gory description about the ordeals faced by players who came back after loosing a match.


6. RAMPANT (NOUN): flourishing or spreading unchecked 

Synonyms: uncontrolled, unbridled Antonyms: restrained, moderate

Example sentence:

Corruption is rampant and government is trying its best to control it.


7. FATHOM (VERB): to understand after much thought

Synonyms: comprehend grasp Antonyms: misinterpret, misunderstand 

Example sentence:

Since I have always scored good marks i cannot fathom why my teacher gave me poor grades.


8. SPAWN (VERB): to start something

Synonyms: create, generate

Antonyms: destroy, kill

Example sentence:

The new economic freedom has spawned hundreds of New small businesses.


9. LIMPID (ADJECTIVE): clear, transparent

Synonyms: comprehensible, lucid Antonyms: muddy obscure

Example sentence: 

The writer's limpid writing style greatly pleased readers who disliked complicated novels.


10. GRATIS (ADJECTIVE): free

Synonyms: complementary, chargeless Antonyms: costly, expesive

Example sentence: 

Gratis distribution of net is already being applied successfully in several impoverished countries.

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