Dear Readers, we are providing to you Word List from The Newspaper to improve your word power. It will help you to enhance your word power as well as you can understand the correct usage of the word. Your reading habit can make all the difference. If you are not able to read a newspaper for Teaching Exam. We will post important words every day from editorial section.
1. Roundabout
Meaning: Marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
Synonym: collateral, indirect, discursive
Antonym: direct, honest, straightforward
Sentence: Hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend
2. Sops
Meaning: A concession given to mollify or placate
Synonym: douse, weakling, steep
Antonym: dehydrate, dry
Sentence: The offer was a sop to my feelings
3. Parched
Meaning: Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Synonym: scorched, withered, shrivelled
Antonym: moist, damp, wet
Sentence: Parched corn was a staple of the Indian diet
4. Tack
Meaning: An approach or course of action, esp. a new one
Synonym: tangent, echelon, digression
Antonym: stagnation
Sentence:He stopped for a moment, collecting his thoughts, before deciding to try a different tack
5. Trinkets
Meaning: Cheap showy jewellery or ornament on clothing
Synonym: bauble, curio, bagatelle
Antonym: not shinny
Sentence:They had this morning put on their best clothes, and all their trinkets.
6. Scintillating
Meaning: Marked by high spirits or excitement; Brilliantly clever
Synonym: dazzling, gleaming, glinting
Antonym: dull, blah
Sentence: Does a constellation scintillate more brightly than a single star
7. Chinks
Meaning: A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall; Make or emit a high sound
Synonym: crevice, fissure, aperture
Antonym: closure, closing, solid
Sentence:They ride silently like shadows, with no clatter of stirrup or chink of bit.
8. Hinterland
Meaning: A remote and undeveloped area
Synonym: boondocks, outback, frontier
Antonym: metropolis
Sentence:Maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords
9. Monotony
Meaning: The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety
Synonym: tedium, tediousness, invariability
Antonym: dissimilarity, stoppage, versatility
Sentence:He had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work
10. Interminable
Meaning: Tiresomely long; seemingly without end
Synonym: incessant, perpetual, ceaseless
Antonym: ephemeral, transient, terminable
Sentence: He is weary of the interminable procession of comfortless nights and days
