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Editorial vocabulary is useful only when it becomes exam-ready. This pack turns The Hindu-style word lists into synonym, antonym, one-word substitution, fill-in-the-blank, and passage-context revision for SSC CGL, CHSL, MTS, CPO, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English sections.
The PDF has date-wise editorial lists, but exam preparation works better when words are grouped by use. These groups cover the vocabulary that repeatedly appears in SSC and other government exam English sections.
about to happen very soon
Used in passages about danger, decisions, deadlines, elections, or policy action.
the legal handover of an accused or convicted person from one country to another
Often appears in diplomacy, criminal justice, treaty, and international relations passages.
strong disagreement with an opinion, decision, or authority
Useful for antonym questions because it contrasts with consent, approval, and consensus.
general agreement among a group
Common in passages on committees, Parliament, institutions, and negotiations.
strong public criticism or disapproval
Frequently tested as the noun form of condemn in editorials and news passages.
protection given by a country to someone fleeing danger or persecution
Important in migration, human rights, and international law vocabulary.
a smaller group within a larger organisation, often with a different view
Appears in politics, parties, unions, and historical passages.
persuasive or impressive language, sometimes more stylish than sincere
A favourite editorial word for speeches, campaigns, and public debate.
a person who is escaping from law or authority
Often used in one-word substitution and contextual meaning questions.
able to cause death or very serious harm
A direct synonym-antonym word: lethal means deadly, not merely strong.
a person who rebels against an established government or authority
Common in defence, internal security, and international relations passages.
a complaint about unfair treatment
Useful in administrative, workplace, rights, and policy passages.
an unpleasant result of an action or event
Often tested in the plural: repercussions means consequences.
a struggle, argument, or contest
Used for political disputes, legal fights, and institutional conflicts.
to remove people or things considered unwanted
Can be a noun or verb; watch the sentence role in grammar-vocabulary questions.
a crack, split, or division
Editorials use it literally for cracks and figuratively for political divisions.
kind, gentle, or not harmful
Commonly confused with benevolent; benign can also mean medically harmless.
kindness and willingness to help others
Useful noun form for word-family questions: benevolent, benevolently, benevolence.
having no pity or compassion
A high-frequency antonym word paired against merciful, kind, and compassionate.
unpredictable, fanciful, or guided by sudden moods
Do not confuse with logical or steady; it suggests mood-based change.
to calm someone who is angry or upset
Often appears in sentence completion: placate anger, protesters, critics, or voters.
a person who criticises someone or something
Pairs naturally with critic, opponent, admirer, supporter.
firm, loyal, and not easily changed
A scoring antonym word against wavering, fickle, and unstable.
difficult or impossible to explain
Break it as in + explicable; the prefix makes it negative.
High-utility editorial words for passages on government, policy, courts, diplomacy, public order, and administration.
Meaning: about to happen very soon
Exam use: Used in passages about danger, decisions, deadlines, elections, or policy action.
Example: The committee met because a final decision was imminent.
Meaning: the legal handover of an accused or convicted person from one country to another
Exam use: Often appears in diplomacy, criminal justice, treaty, and international relations passages.
Example: The court reviewed the extradition request before giving its order.
Meaning: strong disagreement with an opinion, decision, or authority
Exam use: Useful for antonym questions because it contrasts with consent, approval, and consensus.
Example: A healthy democracy allows peaceful dissent.
Meaning: general agreement among a group
Exam use: Common in passages on committees, Parliament, institutions, and negotiations.
Example: The parties reached a consensus after several rounds of talks.
Meaning: strong public criticism or disapproval
Exam use: Frequently tested as the noun form of condemn in editorials and news passages.
Example: The act drew condemnation from citizens and officials alike.
Meaning: protection given by a country to someone fleeing danger or persecution
Exam use: Important in migration, human rights, and international law vocabulary.
Example: The family sought asylum after facing threats in their homeland.
Meaning: a smaller group within a larger organisation, often with a different view
Exam use: Appears in politics, parties, unions, and historical passages.
Example: A faction within the party opposed the proposal.
Meaning: persuasive or impressive language, sometimes more stylish than sincere
Exam use: A favourite editorial word for speeches, campaigns, and public debate.
Example: The speech had strong rhetoric but few clear promises.
Words that regularly appear in passages about internal security, crime, conflict, reform, and public safety.
Meaning: a person who is escaping from law or authority
Exam use: Often used in one-word substitution and contextual meaning questions.
Example: The fugitive was arrested near the border.
Meaning: able to cause death or very serious harm
Exam use: A direct synonym-antonym word: lethal means deadly, not merely strong.
Example: The report warned against the use of lethal force.
Meaning: a person who rebels against an established government or authority
Exam use: Common in defence, internal security, and international relations passages.
Example: The region witnessed talks between officials and insurgent groups.
Meaning: a complaint about unfair treatment
Exam use: Useful in administrative, workplace, rights, and policy passages.
Example: The workers submitted their grievances to the officer.
Meaning: an unpleasant result of an action or event
Exam use: Often tested in the plural: repercussions means consequences.
Example: The decision had serious economic repercussions.
Meaning: a struggle, argument, or contest
Exam use: Used for political disputes, legal fights, and institutional conflicts.
Example: The tussle between the two departments delayed the project.
Meaning: to remove people or things considered unwanted
Exam use: Can be a noun or verb; watch the sentence role in grammar-vocabulary questions.
Example: The organisation began a purge of corrupt practices.
Meaning: a crack, split, or division
Exam use: Editorials use it literally for cracks and figuratively for political divisions.
Example: The debate exposed fissures within the alliance.
Personality and conduct words that help in synonyms, antonyms, fill-in-the-blank, and passage tone questions.
Meaning: kind, gentle, or not harmful
Exam use: Commonly confused with benevolent; benign can also mean medically harmless.
Example: The new rule had a largely benign effect on small traders.
Meaning: kindness and willingness to help others
Exam use: Useful noun form for word-family questions: benevolent, benevolently, benevolence.
Example: Her benevolence made the relief camp more humane.
Meaning: having no pity or compassion
Exam use: A high-frequency antonym word paired against merciful, kind, and compassionate.
Example: The company made a ruthless decision to cut costs.
Meaning: unpredictable, fanciful, or guided by sudden moods
Exam use: Do not confuse with logical or steady; it suggests mood-based change.
Example: The officer rejected a whimsical approach to public policy.
Meaning: to calm someone who is angry or upset
Exam use: Often appears in sentence completion: placate anger, protesters, critics, or voters.
Example: The minister tried to placate the protesting farmers.
Meaning: a person who criticises someone or something
Exam use: Pairs naturally with critic, opponent, admirer, supporter.
Example: Even his detractors accepted that the reform was bold.
Meaning: firm, loyal, and not easily changed
Exam use: A scoring antonym word against wavering, fickle, and unstable.
Example: She remained steadfast during the difficult training period.
Meaning: difficult or impossible to explain
Exam use: Break it as in + explicable; the prefix makes it negative.
Example: The sudden fall in scores was inexplicable.
Verbs and abstract nouns that make The Hindu-style passages easier to decode quickly in exams.
Meaning: to support, strengthen, or improve
Exam use: Common in economy, defence, policy, and confidence-building passages.
Example: The new scheme may bolster rural employment.
Meaning: to remain weak, neglected, or stuck in an unpleasant state
Exam use: Often used for cases, projects, industries, prisoners, and institutions.
Example: Several files continued to languish in the office.
Meaning: to replace someone or something, especially by force or strategy
Exam use: More precise than replace; it often implies taking over a position.
Example: Digital payments began to supplant cash in many urban markets.
Meaning: to encourage trouble, unrest, or conflict
Exam use: Usually negative; foment is used with unrest, violence, rebellion, or hatred.
Example: The speech was accused of trying to foment unrest.
Meaning: to reduce, limit, or cut short
Exam use: Very common with rights, expenditure, powers, freedom, and losses.
Example: The order sought to curtail unnecessary spending.
Meaning: to make something less severe, painful, or harmful
Exam use: Often appears in climate, disaster, poverty, risk, and punishment contexts.
Example: Early warning systems can mitigate flood damage.
Meaning: real, important, and meaningful rather than symbolic
Exam use: Used in editorials to separate actual action from mere statements.
Example: The talks produced no substantive agreement.
Meaning: to cite, call upon, or appeal to a rule, idea, or authority
Exam use: Common with laws, constitutional provisions, principles, and memories.
Example: The lawyer invoked a constitutional right during the hearing.
Legal-process words from editorial and news vocabulary that are useful for SSC, Banking, Railways, Defence, State PCS, and police exam passages.
Meaning: the act of bringing an accused person before a court to answer a charge
Exam use: A strong one-word substitution item for court procedure.
Example: The arraignment took place after the investigating agency filed its papers.
Meaning: a formal charge or a strong criticism
Exam use: Watch both meanings: legal charge and editorial criticism.
Example: The report was an indictment of poor safety standards.
Meaning: a formal statement given as evidence
Exam use: Useful in court, inquiry, witness, and investigation passages.
Example: The witness gave a deposition before the magistrate.
Meaning: a formal statement or evidence given by a witness
Exam use: Often paired with witness, court, proof, and evidence.
Example: Her testimony helped establish the sequence of events.
Meaning: a person involved in a secret unlawful plan
Exam use: One-word substitution: one who takes part in a conspiracy.
Example: The court named him as a conspirator in the case.
Meaning: a person who attacks someone
Exam use: Common in police, crime, and accident news vocabulary.
Example: The assailant escaped before the police arrived.
Meaning: to injure someone so badly that a body part is permanently damaged
Exam use: A stronger word than injure; it suggests permanent damage.
Example: The blast maimed several innocent people.
Meaning: to make pain, fear, anger, or doubt less intense
Exam use: Often used with fears, concerns, anger, grief, and misgivings.
Example: The official statement failed to assuage public anxiety.
Meaning: a feeling of doubt, fear, or suspicion
Exam use: Usually appears in plural form: misgivings.
Example: Experts expressed misgivings about the rushed proposal.
Meaning: relating to a formal request, especially between courts or authorities
Exam use: Useful for advanced legal vocabulary in government exam reading passages.
Example: The agency sent a rogatory request for foreign evidence.
Institutional vocabulary for questions on Parliament, constitutional amendments, government systems, and administrative action.
Meaning: having two legislative houses
Exam use: One-word substitution: a legislature with two houses.
Example: India has a bicameral Parliament at the Union level.
Meaning: a change or addition made to a law, bill, or constitution
Exam use: Very frequent in polity passages and static GK-linked English questions.
Example: The amendment changed the wording of the bill.
Meaning: the power to reject or block a decision or proposal
Exam use: Often appears in UN, President, legislature, and committee passages.
Example: The proposal could not pass after the veto.
Meaning: a situation in which no progress or action is possible
Exam use: Common in Parliament, negotiation, conflict, and sports contexts.
Example: Talks ended in a stalemate after both sides refused to move.
Meaning: strongly supporting one side, party, or cause
Exam use: Antonym questions often contrast partisan with neutral or impartial.
Example: The panel was criticised for taking a partisan view.
Meaning: relating to a system where power is divided between central and regional governments
Exam use: Important for polity passages and vocabulary-in-context questions.
Example: Federal principles require respect for state powers.
Meaning: a thing granted in response to demand or pressure
Exam use: Used in negotiation, tax, trade, student, and government-policy contexts.
Example: The union accepted the concession after long talks.
Meaning: practical and based on real conditions rather than theory
Exam use: High-frequency antonym pair: pragmatic vs idealistic.
Example: The officer suggested a pragmatic solution.
Meaning: importance or connection to the matter being discussed
Exam use: Used in passages asking whether an institution, rule, or idea still matters.
Example: The debate questioned the relevance of the old rule.
Meaning: planned or invented carefully
Exam use: Frequently appears in passive form: a system was devised.
Example: A new method was devised to reduce delays.
Words used when editorials discuss reform, protest, schemes, duties, public pressure, and institutional response.
Meaning: something unusual, irregular, or different from what is expected
Exam use: Often tested with oddity, irregularity, exception, and abnormality.
Example: The salary structure had an anomaly that needed correction.
Meaning: a false, absurd, or distorted version of something serious
Exam use: Common phrase: travesty of justice.
Example: The unfair trial was called a travesty of justice.
Meaning: careful, cautious, and unwilling to take unnecessary risks
Exam use: Antonym trap: circumspect does not mean suspicious; it means cautious.
Example: Officials took a circumspect approach during the crisis.
Meaning: united and working well together
Exam use: Used for teams, communities, policies, and arguments.
Example: The plan needs a more cohesive strategy.
Meaning: workable, practical, and capable of success
Exam use: Often used in policy, business, science, and project passages.
Example: The committee rejected the idea because it was not viable.
Meaning: angry or dissatisfied, especially because of unfair treatment
Exam use: Common in labour, protest, employee, and voter contexts.
Example: Disgruntled workers demanded a meeting with management.
Meaning: to avoid a duty or responsibility
Exam use: Fill-in-the-blank favourite with duty, responsibility, work, and obligation.
Example: A public servant must not shirk responsibility.
Meaning: responsibility, burden, or duty
Exam use: Common phrase: the onus is on someone.
Example: The onus is on the applicant to submit correct documents.
Meaning: something that gives encouragement, boost, or stimulus
Exam use: Often used with economy, industry, reform, morale, and growth.
Example: The new road gave a fillip to local trade.
Meaning: a source of help or option used in difficulty
Exam use: Common phrase: have recourse to law, courts, protest, or appeal.
Example: Citizens still have recourse to the courts.
Vocabulary for passages on terrorism, diplomacy, global summits, borders, treaties, and strategic relations.
Meaning: a government or system of rule
Exam use: Can be neutral, but often carries a negative tone in editorials.
Example: The old regime was replaced after months of unrest.
Meaning: the act of becoming involved to influence or improve a situation
Exam use: Used in military, diplomatic, social, and economic contexts.
Example: International intervention changed the course of the conflict.
Meaning: an agreement, accepted rule, or established practice
Exam use: Meaning changes by context: treaty, norm, or meeting.
Example: The convention protects non-combatants during war.
Meaning: a person not directly involved in fighting
Exam use: One-word substitution for civilians or personnel not fighting.
Example: The law protects non-combatants in conflict zones.
Meaning: clear, firm, and not open to doubt
Exam use: High-frequency antonym pair: unequivocal vs ambiguous.
Example: The statement was an unequivocal rejection of violence.
Meaning: a duty or promise that must be fulfilled
Exam use: Often used in legal, moral, treaty, and public-service contexts.
Example: Every citizen has an obligation to follow the law.
Meaning: a political-religious state led by a caliph
Exam use: Appears in terrorism, West Asia, and history-linked passages.
Example: The article discussed the rise and fall of a self-declared caliphate.
Meaning: showing unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners
Exam use: Important adjective for social issues and international relations passages.
Example: The policy was criticised for encouraging xenophobic views.
Meaning: the existing state of affairs
Exam use: Common in passage tone and phrase meaning questions.
Example: The talks failed because both sides defended the status quo.
Meaning: extreme and aggressive patriotism
Exam use: Do not mark patriotism as exact meaning; jingoism is excessive and hostile.
Example: The editorial warned against jingoism after the border incident.
Words that appear in flood, climate, city planning, infrastructure, disaster-management, and environment passages.
Meaning: flooding or being covered with water
Exam use: A precise word for flood-related passages.
Example: The city faced inundation after continuous rain.
Meaning: very bad, shocking, or unpleasant
Exam use: Often used for conditions, conduct, safety, and performance.
Example: The audit revealed appalling maintenance of drains.
Meaning: damaged by repeated blows, hardship, or bad weather
Exam use: Used for coast, economy, buildings, teams, and morale.
Example: The battered bridge remained closed for repairs.
Meaning: blocking or obstructing a passage
Exam use: Very common with drains, traffic, pipes, roads, and systems.
Example: Plastic waste was clogging the storm-water drains.
Meaning: gradual intrusion into another area, right, or space
Exam use: Used for illegal construction, rights, powers, land, and lakes.
Example: Encroachment on wetlands increased flood risk.
Meaning: widespread and uncontrolled
Exam use: Often negative: rampant corruption, disease, pollution, illegal mining.
Example: Rampant dumping damaged the riverbank.
Meaning: very detailed and complicated
Exam use: Used for systems, designs, networks, procedures, and problems.
Example: Urban drainage is an intricate system.
Meaning: growing or expanding rapidly
Exam use: Common with population, industry, demand, cities, and markets.
Example: Burgeoning traffic has strained city roads.
Meaning: difficult and intimidating
Exam use: Used for tasks, challenges, targets, reforms, and examinations.
Example: Restoring the old lake is a daunting task.
Meaning: a weakness, fault, or deficiency
Exam use: Usually appears in plural form: shortcomings.
Example: The report highlighted shortcomings in disaster preparedness.
Words that help students answer tone, attitude, inference, and vocabulary-in-context questions in comprehension passages.
Meaning: wildly anxious, frightened, or hurried
Exam use: Used for panic, search, rescue, and emergency situations.
Example: Parents made frantic calls after the news broke.
Meaning: to express sorrow, regret, or complaint
Exam use: Useful for passage tone: sorrowful, regretful, critical.
Example: The writer laments the decline of public debate.
Meaning: sadly or very badly
Exam use: Usually strengthens a negative adjective: woefully inadequate, woefully late.
Example: The town was woefully unprepared for the storm.
Meaning: serious, worrying, depressing, or difficult
Exam use: Common with situation, picture, reminder, reality, and outlook.
Example: The data presented a grim picture of unemployment.
Meaning: a strong feeling of anger and shock
Exam use: Often appears as noun or verb; check sentence role.
Example: The incident caused public outrage.
Meaning: to mock or make fun of someone or something
Exam use: Do not confuse with criticism; ridicule includes mockery.
Example: The proposal was met with ridicule by critics.
Meaning: an insulting or mocking remark
Exam use: Common in political speech and editorial passages.
Example: The leader avoided personal jibes during the debate.
Meaning: an indirect remark suggesting something rude or negative
Exam use: One-word substitution: indirect insulting suggestion.
Example: The article relied on innuendo rather than evidence.
Meaning: encouraging or making one feel hopeful
Exam use: A positive tone word in comprehension.
Example: The improved attendance was a heartening sign.
Meaning: mutual trust and friendship in a group
Exam use: Useful in passage questions about teams, soldiers, students, and workers.
Example: Training camps build camaraderie among recruits.
Words that describe decline, damage, delay, collapse, disorder, and failure in editorial passages.
Meaning: making someone or something weak
Exam use: Common with disease, heat, poverty, delays, and stress.
Example: The region suffered a debilitating power shortage.
Meaning: made weak, ineffective, or powerless
Exam use: Editorials use it for institutions, laws, committees, and agencies.
Example: The watchdog was emasculated by lack of authority.
Meaning: to weaken gradually, often secretly or indirectly
Exam use: Common collocation: undermine confidence, authority, democracy, effort.
Example: False rumours can undermine public trust.
Meaning: a temporary failure, error, or decline from an expected standard
Exam use: Used in security lapse, memory lapse, judgement lapse.
Example: A security lapse allowed the breach.
Meaning: complete confusion and disorder
Exam use: Direct synonym-antonym word: chaos vs order.
Example: The sudden announcement created chaos at the station.
Meaning: a blockage or deadlock that prevents progress
Exam use: Used for Parliament, traffic, files, negotiations, and courts.
Example: The policy logjam delayed investment.
Meaning: sudden and unexpected; sometimes rude in manner
Exam use: Meaning depends on context: abrupt end, abrupt reply, abrupt change.
Example: The meeting came to an abrupt end.
Meaning: unnecessary because no longer useful or needed
Exam use: Common in sentence improvement and vocabulary questions.
Example: The revised form removed redundant questions.
Meaning: the negative result or consequence of an event
Exam use: Usually appears after controversy, policy, war, scandal, or disaster.
Example: The economic fallout lasted for months.
Meaning: a problem or defeat that delays progress
Exam use: Useful in sports, economy, project, and policy passages.
Example: The court order was a setback for the project.
Useful words for development, encouragement, support, improvement, unity, and progress-based passages.
Meaning: to support, strengthen, or reinforce
Exam use: Common with argument, case, evidence, wall, claim, and institution.
Example: The new data buttressed the committee's argument.
Meaning: to encourage the growth or development of something
Exam use: Used with cooperation, growth, talent, innovation, and trust.
Example: Schools should foster curiosity and discipline.
Meaning: to improve or increase the quality, value, or strength of something
Exam use: Common with security, capacity, skill, image, and productivity.
Example: Training can enhance performance in interviews.
Meaning: quick or prompt
Exam use: High-frequency direct synonym word: swift means rapid.
Example: The department promised swift action.
Meaning: involving people or groups working together
Exam use: Used for governance, research, education, and team projects.
Example: The mission needs a collaborative effort.
Meaning: most powerful, important, or noticeable
Exam use: Common in economy, politics, biology, and passage analysis.
Example: Agriculture remained the dominant source of income.
Meaning: to exist widely or win after struggle
Exam use: Two meanings: conditions prevail, or a side prevails.
Example: Calm prevailed after the announcement.
Meaning: to say or do again for emphasis
Exam use: Common in official statements: reiterated commitment, reiterated demand.
Example: The minister reiterated the government's position.
Meaning: believable and trustworthy
Exam use: Often used with evidence, source, claim, plan, and explanation.
Example: The inquiry needs credible witnesses.
Meaning: seriously and sincerely
Exam use: Adverb often used with appeal, request, hope, work, and pray.
Example: Students worked earnestly before the final test.
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15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.
15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.
15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.
15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.
15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.
15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.
15 exam-ready vocabulary questions based on editorial word usage for SSC CGL, Banking, Railways, Defence, and State exam English practice.