“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
- Revel (Noun/Verb)- आनंद लेना
- Short Meaning: To take great pleasure or delight
- Synonyms: Celebrate, Enjoy, Delight
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
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