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    “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
    • 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

    VOCAB SERIES DAY 7

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    To “spruce” up means to:

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    “Furore” is best defined as:

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    To “evince” means to:

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    “Profligate” is used to describe someone who is:

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    Which word describes a situation that is dangerously likely to fall or collapse?

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    A “sycophant” is someone who:

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    “Cupidity” is best defined as:

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    What does “contraband” refer to?

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    Which word is used to describe the act of criticizing someone in an abusive or angrily insulting manner?

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    1. What does the word “revel” mean?

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