Dear Students, SSC CGL 2017 Exam will be conducted from 1st August to 20 August 2017. For vocabulary related questions, you need to read a lot and memorize the words so that you can answer all the questions based on vocab. Your reading habit can make all the difference. If you are not able to read a newspaper for SSC Exam, here we are providing vocab words based on the Hindu newspaper editorial.
1.Frivolous (adjective)
Meaning: not having any serious purpose or value.
Synonyms: flippant, glib, waggish, joking, jokey, light-hearted, facetious, fatuous, inane, shallow, superficial, senseless, thoughtless, ill-considered, non-serious.
Example: While at first blush, a quibble over this categorisation might seem a largely frivolous concern, seeing as it is made on apparently pedantic grounds, in reality the court’s mistake here goes to the root of why it got its decision in Binoy Viswam as it did, and why it so often fails to uphold critical civil liberties when faced with acts of governmental coercion.
Meaning: in a way that seems reasonable or probable.
Example: For Dworkin, “hard cases” are those disputes where “no settled rule dictates a decision either way”, and where, therefore, “it might seem that a proper decision could be generated by either policy or principle.” In other words, they encompass cases where there exists a particularly knotty controversy over deciding what the law really is, where an application of differing value judgments could plausibly result in contradictory identifications of the law.
3.Coherent (adjective)
Meaning: (of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent.
Synonyms: logical, reasoned, reasonable, well reasoned, rational, sound, cogent.
Example: In other words, a judge deciding such a dispute must test her interpretation by asking whether her decision could form part of a coherent theory that justifies the entire network of political structure and legal doctrine of their community.
4.Proliferation (noun)
Meaning: rapid increase in the number or amount of something., rapid reproduction of a cell, part, or organism.
Synonyms: rapid increase, multiplication, spread, escalation, expansion, build-up,
Example: The court did this by accepting as gospel truth the state’s arguments that the linking of Aadhaar and PAN can help eradicate the ills of tax evasion caused by a proliferation of black money.
5.Disdain (noun)
Meaning: the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect.
Synonyms: contempt, scorn, scornfulness, contemptuousness, derision, disrespect.
Example: The court showed a similar disdain in dismissing arguments made on the arbitrariness that is inherent in Section 139AA.
6.Capricious (adjective)
Meaning: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour.
Synonyms: fickle, inconstant, changeable, variable, unstable, mercurial, volatile, erratic, vacillating, irregular, inconsistent, fitful, arbitrary.
Example: The reasons supplied by the petitioners on why the linking of Aadhaar and PAN is capricious were wholly ignored. For example, the judgment failed to heed to the fact that the consequences of an invalidation of a person’s PAN might result in a virtual “civil death”, as the senior counsel Arvind P. Datar, who represented one of the petitioners, described the provision.
7.Proclivity (noun)
Meaning: a tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination or predisposition towards a particular thing.
Synonyms: liking, inclination, tendency, leaning, disposition, propensity, bent, bias, penchant, predisposition, predilection, partiality, preference, fondness, weakness,
Example: Now, it’s plain to see that even if Parliament represents the interests of the people, any legislation made by it is a product of the proclivities of the government in power.
8.Indigenous (adjective)
Meaning: originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
Synonyms: native, aboriginal, local.
Example: The hold of the GJM in the Hills was sought to be broken by reaching out to indigenous communities in the region through the creation of various tribal development boards. The GJM, on the other hand, believes that the GTA is just a stepping stone for the creation of a separate State.
9.Ploy (noun)
Meaning: a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one’s own advantage.
Example: Earlier this month the government had also held a cabinet meeting in the Hills after many years, drawing a sharp response from the GJM and other separatist political forces that saw this as a ploy to undermine the GTA’s authority.
10.Intractable (adjective)
Meaning: hard to control or deal with.
Synonyms: unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, out of control, out of hand, impossible to cope with.
Example: A signal in this direction will go a long way in tamping down the violent agitation. It should also abandon its wishful thinking that shortcuts can solve the intractable Gorkhaland issue, which is culturally rooted.
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