Vocabulary for IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, IBPS RRB, SBI PO, RBI, CSAT, CAT, GRE exams
INFIDELITY
- Noun
- Marital disloyalty; Unfaithfulness;
- SYNONYMS: Adultery, Betrayal, Cheating, Falsity, Perfidy
- ANTONYMS: Faithfulness; Fidelity; Loyalty; Honour; Staunchness
- USAGE: → After her first two failed marriages and her ex-husbands' infidelities, she could not go down this road herself.
PROMISCUOUS
- Adjective
- Indiscriminately sexually active
- FORMS: Promiscuously - Adverb
Promiscuousness - Noun
- SYNONYMS: Licentious, Immoral, Profilgate, Wanton
- ANTONYMS: Chaste, Cold, Frigid
- USAGE: → Apparently that meant, I was young and potentially very promiscuous.
→ He is just starting his adulthood in a culture predominated by permissiveness and promiscuity.
RETALIATE
- Verb
- Get even with someone
- Forms: Retaliative - Adjective
Retaliater - Noun
- SYNONYMS: React, Reciprocate, Counterattack, Revenge, Avenge, Requite
- ANTONYMS: Forgive, Pardon, Sympathize
- USAGE: → The tiger only learned to avoid people when their abilities to retaliate increased over the last two centuries.
→ Often people talk of justice as only retaliative.
CONTEMPLATE
- Verb
- Think about seriously
- Forms: Contemplatingly - Adverb
Contemplation - Noun
- SYNONYMS: Aim, Consider, Envisage, Excogitate, Observe, Percolate
- ANTONYMS: Discard, Disregard, Neglect, Scorn
- USAGE: → For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical officer.
→ He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape for a while.
TANTAMOUNT
- Adjective
- Equivalent; Same;
- SYNONYMS: Duplicate, Commensurate, Parallel, Synonymous, Uniform
- ANTONYMS: Different, Opposite, Polar, Reverse
- USAGE: → His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
→What Bose is saying is tantamount to abuse.
INTRIGUE
- Noun
- Scheme; Secret planning, plot
- Forms: Intriguingly - Adverb
Intriguing/Intrigued - Verb
- SYNONYMS: Artifice, Cabal, Collusion, Conspiracy, Hookup, Dodge, Wile
- USAGE: →The Novelty of the situation intrigued him.
→The plan intrigues me, but I wonder if it will work.
