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.Convene (verb)
Meaning: come or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble.
Synonyms: summon, call, call together, order.
Example: The G20 process was initiated with American leadership, when President George Bush convened the first gathering of the world’s 20 largest economies, following the outbreak of the global financial crisis of 2008.
Meaning: say something again or a number of times, typically for emphasis or clarity.
Synonyms: repeat, say again, restate, retell, recapitulate, go over (and over), rehearse, dwell on, harp on, hammer away at.
Example: The forum reiterated its commitment to open markets, and importance of reciprocal and mutually advantageous trade and investment, while fighting protectionism and unfair trade practices. A key achievement of the German presidency is the African partnership.
3.Asceticism (noun)
Meaning: severe self-discipline and avoiding of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
Synonyms: austerity, self-denial, abstinence, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, self-discipline, frugality, simplicity, rigour, strictness, severity.
Example: The Mahabharata says, a sage named Jajali stood motionless for many months while practising extreme asceticism and some birds built their nest and laid eggs in his hair. Overcome by the thought that if he moved, the birds might suffer and die, Jajali remained in that position without food and water till the time the birds grew up and flew away. Jajali rejoiced that by doing so he had reached the pinnacle of asceticism, compassion and spiritual growth.
4.Exult (verb)
Meaning: show or feel triumphant elation or jubilation.
Synonyms: rejoice, be joyful, be happy, be pleased, be glad, be delighted, be elated, be ecstatic, be euphoric, be overjoyed, be as pleased as Punch, be cock-a-hoop, be jubilant, be rapturous, be in raptures, be transported, be beside oneself with joy, be delirious.
Example: When Jajali met Tuladhara he observed that as Tuladhara went about his business of selling goods, different kinds of people came to the shop. Some customers were good, others were bad; some expressed gratitude while others ridiculed the merchant. But Tuladhara remained in perpetual equanimity, he was neither exulted by the love nor distressed by the hatred and went about doing his work honestly. While balancing the scales in his business, Tuladhara had achieved an inner balance that transcends duality.
5.Transcendent (adjective)
Meaning: beyond or above the range of normal or physical human experience., (in scholastic philosophy) higher than or not included in any of Aristotle’s ten categories.
Example: Enlightenment is a transcendent state where one realises that the Self is different from body, mind and its sensory objects. Also, pairs of opposites such as pain and pleasure, love and hate, birth and death, attachment and detachment, loss and gain, activity and passivity are nothing but a playful manifestation of consciousness.
6.Contemplate (verb)
Meaning: look thoughtfully for a long time at., think deeply and at length.
Synonyms: look at, view, regard, examine, inspect, observe, survey, study, scrutinize, scan, stare at, gaze at, eye, take a good look at.
Example: Enlightenment is achievable if one makes rigorous effort to know the truth. What is important is that the individual contemplates on absolute consciousness constantly and uproots whatever it is that creates false illusion in his mind and drives him away from the truth. Whether he is meditating in a remote cave or envisioning the Divine while doing his job in a metropolitan city is just an ancillary event.
7.Umpteen (number)
Meaning: indefinitely many; a lot of.
Example: This is accomplished when one repeatedly tries to see the one absolute consciousness hidden in all forms and aspects of creation. With repeated practise, awareness comes up, that all the senses and their umpteen objects, mind and body, are a manifestation of absolute consciousness. The mind then gives up craving, it reflects this one consciousness and stays in perfect balance.
8.Blossom (noun)
Meaning: To develop; flourish., to develop successfully; flourish
Example: To succeed in the game of life, we have to struggle. This struggle is consuming our life silently. But that does not mean we should give up; because, the creative process installed in one’s DNA has to be allowed to blossom.
9.Manipulative (adjective)
Meaning: exercising unscrupulous control or influence over a person or situation.
Synonyms: scheming, calculating, cunning, crafty, wily, shrewd, devious, designing, conniving, unscrupulous, disingenuous.
Example: Such a value spontaneously brings in the power to give, to contribute and to serve. You should not only contribute to each other in a team but also to the customer, not just in manipulative words and smiles, but from the value of truly contributing.
10.Flagging (adjective)
Meaning: becoming smaller or weaker; dwindling., weak, fatigued.
Example: Great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela often relied on mind-cleansing meditation combined with deep breathing to restore their flagging energy and create inner peace whenever stress built up in their lives.
Example: Great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela often relied on mind-cleansing meditation combined with deep breathing to restore their flagging energy and create inner peace whenever stress built up in their lives.
