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English Questions – Vocabulary set 125

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Welcome to Online English Section with explanation inAffairsCloud.com. Here we are providing some difficult words from editorials, which is important for IBPS PO/CLERK/LIC AAO/RRB & SSC CGL EXAM and other !!!

1. Rampant – अनियंत्रित

Meaning – (especially of something unwelcome) flourishing or spreading unchecked.

Synonyms – uncontrolled, unrestrained, unchecked, unbridled, widespread, pandemic, epidemic, pervasive; out of control, out of hand, rife, spreading like wildfire.

Usage – “political violence was rampant”

2. Skimpy – लोभी

Meaning – providing or consisting of less than is needed; meagre.

Synonyms – meagre, scanty, scant, sketchy, limited, restricted, inadequate, insufficient, paltry, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, small, sparse; rareexiguous.

Usage – “my knowledge of music is extremely skimpy”

3. Collate – मुक़ाबला करना

Meaning – collect and combine (texts, information, or data).

Synonyms – collect, gather, accumulate, assemble; combine, aggregate, put together; arrange, organize, order, put in order, sort, categorize, systematize, structure.

Usage – “all the information obtained is being collated”

4. Sledgehammer – ताक़तवर

Meaning – a large, heavy hammer used for such jobs as breaking rocks and driving in fence posts.

Usage – the jailhouse door was sledgehammered.

5. Inducement – प्रलोभन

Meaning – a thing that persuades or leads someone to do something.

Synonyms – incentive, attraction, encouragement, temptation, incitement, stimulation, stimulus, bait, lure, pull, draw, spur, goad, impetus, motive, motivation, provocation; bribe, reward; informalcarrot, come-on, sweetener, perk; raredouceur.

Usage – “companies were prepared to build only in return for massive inducements”

6. Raging – प्रकोप

Meaning – showing rage.

Synonyms – angry, furious, enraged, incensed, infuriated, irate, wrathful, seething, fuming, blazing, flaming mad, blazing mad, mad, ranting, raving, beside oneself; informallivid, wild; informalwaxy.

Usage – “a raging bull”

7. Weeding – निराई

Meaning – remove an inferior or unwanted component of a group or collection.

Synonyms – isolate, separate out, set apart, put to one side, divide, segregate, sort out, sift out, winnow out, filter out, sieve; eliminate, get rid of, remove, dispense with, shed; informaldump, lose.

Usage – “we must raise the level of research and weed out the poorest work”

8. Surmount – बढ़ना

Meaning – overcome (a difficulty or obstacle).

Synonyms – overcome, conquer, get over, prevail over, triumph over, get the better of, beat, vanquish, master; clear, cross, make one’s way round/past/over, make it round/past/over, pass over, be unstoppable by; deal with, cope with, resist, endure.

Usage – “all manner of cultural differences were surmounted”

9. Bemoan – रोना

Meaning – express discontent or sorrow over (something).

Synonyms – lament, bewail, deplore, complain about, express regret about; mourn, grieve over, express sorrow about, sorrow for, sigh over, cry over, weep over, shed tears over, wail over, keen over, beat one’s breast about; archaicplain over.

Usage – “it was no use bemoaning her lot”

10. Subsumed – सम्मिलित

Meaning – include or absorb (something) in something else.

Usage – “most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories”