“SSC Vocabulary Day 7: India’s Key Events”

Welcome to the SSC Vocabulary Series – Day 7!

Hello everyone I hope you are all good and like the previous blog Day 6 of vocab series. As you know that we are adding examples and pictures to our SSC GK study material to make it better and more interesting . Today, we are highlighting the 10 pioneering events of India. All these words are asked in SSC exams.

How we do?

• First we remember the vocab through Images with related examples
• Flash card – to improve the memory power
• Quiz
• Memory Game
• Write on the Paper

Let’s Start

1. Revel (Noun/Verb)- आनंद लेना

India revelled in its first Asian Games gold medal in 1951-in men’s 100 meters, with Lavy Pinto

2. Revile (Verb) – गाली देना

• Short Meaning: To criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner
• Synonyms: Insult, Abuse, Vilify

Critics initially reviled India’s first electric train, the Deccan Queen, but it soon became a celebrated symbol of progress. Its journey on June 3, 1930,

3. Contraband (Noun)- तस्करी का माल

• Short Meaning: Goods that have been imported or exported illegally
• Synonyms: Smuggled, Illegal, Prohibited

The Indian Coast Guard seized its first major contraband of illegal drugs on April 20, 1993.

4. Cupidity (Noun)-लालच

• Short Meaning: Greed for money or possessions
• Synonyms: Greed, Avarice, Covetousness

Driven by cupidity for spices, the Portuguese established their first trading factory in Calicut, India, in 1502.

5. Sycophant (Adjective)-चापलूस

• Short Meaning: A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage
• Synonyms: Flatterer, Yes-man, Bootlicker

Rabindranath Tagore, despite being a Nobel laureate in 1913, often faced sycophantic English critics who undervalued his work due to colonial biases.

6.Precarious (Adjective)-अनिश्चित

• Short Meaning: dangerously likely to fall or collapse
• Synonyms: Unstable, Risky, Hazardous

On May 20, 1965, Avtar Singh Cheema made a precarious climb to become the first Indian man to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

7. Profligate (Adjective)-अपव्ययी

• Short Meaning: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
• Synonyms: Wasteful, Extravagant, Spendthrift

The profligate spending of the first Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, led to the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

8. Evince (Verb)- प्रकट करना

• Short Meaning: To reveal the presence of (a quality or feeling)
• Synonyms: Show, Reveal, Display

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station in Maharashtra, operational since 1969, evinced India’s capability to generate electricity through nuclear energy.

9. Furore (Noun)-हंगामा

• Short Meaning: An outbreak of public anger or excitement
• Synonyms: Uproar, Outcry, Commotion

The furore over the first nuclear test conducted by India on May 18, 1974, in Pokhran, Rajasthan, resonated globally.

10. Spruce (Verb)-सजाना

• Short Meaning: Make a person or place smarter or tidier
• Synonyms: Neaten, Tidy, Groom

In 1956, the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata spruced up its facilities to accommodate India’s first computer, the HEC-2M.

Flashcard

Quiz Time

Memory Game

In this Memory Game you have to remember picture used for the vocab.

Write on the Paper

Muskan Dhull

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