Current affairs Jan 9 2017

1 : Women can carry Knife, Lighter and Match box in Delhi Metro for Self Protection

 Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has now allowed women to carry knives of 4 inches, Lighter and  Match box inside the metro trains for Self Protection.  Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) held  a meeting on Friday morning and made the decision. 

2 Britain Appoints Sir Tim Barrow as EU Ambassador

 Sir Tim Barrow is the new EU Ambassador of Britain. He is a senior diplomat educated at the  universities of Warwick and Oxford. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in  1986 and became the Whitehall department’s political director after succeeding Simon Glass in  March last year.

3 Indian Citizens, not residing in the country can exchange old notes of Rs.500 and 1000/- till 30th       June 

 Indian citizens, who are not residing in the Country, have good news that they can exchange their old  500 and 1,000 rupees notes at RBI offices till 30th June

4 Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Salary is being deducted due to the Loss of I Phone Sales

  Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Salary is being deducted due to the Loss in the I Phone Sales. Approx 15%   of deduction in his salary is being made. In 2016 he got the package of 60 Crores which is 10 crore     less than his actually salary.

5 World Book Fair 2017 begins at Pragati Maidan Delhi

 World Book Fair 2017 begins in the Delhi. Minister of State for Human Resources Development,  Mahendra Nath Pandey inaugurated the fair. This book fair will take place for 09 days in the Pragati  Maidan of Delhi.

BANKING VOCAB

1. Enunciation (N):- the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Synonyms: diction, articulate, 
Uses: As the teacher gave instructions, she was careful to enunciate each step of the process so her young students would not be confused.
Trick: rhymes with pronunciation which means clear accent.

2. Eviscerate (V):- take away a vital or essential part of; surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ.
Synonyms: disembowel, draw, resect.
Uses: the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed
Tricks: eviscerate = e (exit) + viscera + ate; The viscera has been exit & eaten

3. Tantamount (Adj):- being essentially equal to something.
Synonyms: equivalent
Uses: his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
Trick: Tantamount and Paramount are similar in sound but have different meanings. While tantamount means, equivalent, paramount means chief in importance.

4. Suffuse (V):- cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across.
Synonyms: perfuse.
Uses: The sky was suffused with a warm pink color.
Trick: SUFFUSE=SUFficient+difFUSE. So, Suffuse is to Diffuse Sufficiently, that is, spread through, over or across.

5. Arrogate (V):- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession.
Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp
Uses: She seized control of the throne after her husband died.
Trick: A surrogate mom arrogate the custody of the child for ever.

6. Repine (V):- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.
Tricks: Imagine on Christmas, your friend brings pine tree instead of Christmas tree, so you will repine.

7. Primordial (Adj):- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.
Synonyms:  aboriginal , primaeval , primal , primeval
Uses: primordial forms of life.
Trick: primordial" = "prime" + "order" =first in the order = existing at the beginning , rudimentary.

8. Temerity (N):- the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger.
Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity.
USes: The correspondent must have lost the playbook and had the temerity to ask him to explain.
Trick:  remember the word tremor.. meaning shaking with fear so a temer person doesn't have tremors.

9. Unassailable (Adj):- not open to attack; impregnable; not subject to question.
Synonyms: impregnable , inviolable , secure , strong , unattackable
Uses: fortifications that made the frontier inviolable.
Trick: a boat can be made to change direction by changing direction of SAIL. so one who is unassailable cannot be changed or questioned or attacked or tampered with.it remains as it it.

10. Iconoclastic (Adj):- characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions; destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited.
Synonyms: Unorthodox, destructive.
Uses: This comes in the wake of other iconoclastic destruction by Islamic State.

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BANKING VOCAB

1.Cynic:A person who believes that people do things only for their own advantage:concerned only with one's own interests not for good, noble and sincere reasons
Example-over a period of time, woman in Afghanistan had started viewing the cynical Taliban with much suspicion.

2.Ironic:Something which happens in the opposite way to what is expected
Example-It is ironic that she died of Dengue, though she was the one who discovered the first medicine for it.

3.Moron:A very stupid person, lacking in good judgement.
Example-Sometimes even an adult person behaves like a complete moron.

4.Eclectic:Selecting what appears to be the best from diverse sources,styles or systems
Example-Book lovers have a very eclectic taste in literature.

5.Morose:Sad,unhappy and bad tampered but not saying much
Example- Never be a morose person even u failed at everythng you tried before.

6.Subjective:Based on personal taste or opinions,based on inner experience rather than  fact
Example- Saying that "Bahubali"is not a very good movie, would be a very subjective statement; I liked it very much.

7.Sceptical:An attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or towards a particular object.
Example-He is always sceptical about the cuttoff of the marks.

8.Vindictive: Disposed to seek revenge;ruthless
Example-The Judge was threatned by the vindictive criminal for delivering the justice.

9.Anarchist:A person who believes that laws and governments are not neccessary
Example-Many websites, meanwhile, declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder.

10.Agnostic:A person who is unsure of the extistence of God but he is little flexible with respect to his beliefs
Example-Though he is an agnostic person but he has no doubt that human infants come with an enormous 'acquisitiveness' for discovering patterns".

These words can be asked in this type of question given below:
1. Which of the following is the tone and theme of the passage?
a. cynical
b. caustic
c. callous
d. biased
e. none of these

banking vocab

1. Sobriquet (N):- a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name).
Synonyms:  byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname.
Uses: In the 'Game of Thrones' Tywin Lannister used to called as an Imp so the word 'Imp' is a 'Sobriquet' here.
Tricks: we know sabri(ramayana) by her name.

2. Bacchanal (N):- someone who engages in drinking bouts; a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia.
Uses: a night of bacchanalian revelry
Tricks: Bachchan acted well in movie SHARABI.

3. Mortification (N):- strong feelings of embarrassment.
Synonyms: chagrin, humiliation.
Uses: he had to undergo one humiliation after another.

4. Enfeeblement (N):- serious weakening and loss of energy.
Synonyms: ebilitation, enervation, exhaustion
Uses: The boring class enfeebled my imagination.

5. Asceticism (N):- rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint.
Synonyms: ascesis 
Uses: When Gregory was a monk, he lived an ascetic lifestyle that excluded worldly goods.
Trick: Asceticism comes from the word ascetic, which comes from Greek roots meaning monk, and practice or exercise.

6. Barefaced (Adj):- with no effort to conceal; unrestrained by convention or propriety.
Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
Uses: They attacked him in various ways with barefaced questions
Trick: adding to above statement Bar Faced. strippers you know have to shameless in order to dance against pole(in bar) and so they are noticeable.

7. Bastion (N):- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.
Synonyms: fortification, munition.
Uses: the last bastion of male chauvinism
Trick: In a war the base station has the strongest protection.

8. Begrudge (V):- be envious of; set one's heart on.
Synonyms: envy
Uses: Americans, for the most part, don’t begrudge someone his success.
Trick: be+grudge. when u have grudge on somebody you always wish ill for him.

9. Beleaguer (V):- annoy persistently.
Synonyms: badger, bug, pester, tease
Uses: If we do not spray our house with insect repellant, mosquitos will beleaguer us all summer.
Tricks: the australians beleaguered harbhajan singh.

10. Satirical (Adj):- exposing human folly to ridicule.
Synonyms: satiric
Uses: a persistent campaign of mockery by the France satirical fortnightly magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' of Hajrat Muhammed Sahab, annoyed the vicious terrorist syndicate ISIS so much, they attacked on it, to retaliate.
Trick: SATIRICAL or IRONICAL which are rhyming words refer to criticism through irony or ridicule.

Banking vocab

1. Portend (V):- Portend means to show a sign that something calamitous is about to happen.
Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate
Uses: These signs bode bad news.
Trick : When we reached the port's end (sea port) we saw some dead bodies, which gave a sign that something bad was going to happen.

2. Splurge (V):- To splurge is to indulge yourself. You can also go on a splurge if you spend a lot or act extravagantly in another way.
Synonyms : flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank
Uses: Greece had got into the habit of splurging on borrowed money.
Trick : when that special girl urges you to buy something prodigal, you buy it

3. Vilifier (N):- one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.
Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer.
Uses: Let us watch with jealous care the honor of our country, and scorn the aspersions of its vilifiers.

4. Conundrum (N):- a difficult problem.
Synonyms: brain-teaser, enigma, riddle, dillema.
Uses: Europe's conundrum
Trick: drum ke andar kaun hai.

5. Prospect (N):- A prospect is the possibility that something fabulous will happen.
Synonyms: chance
Uses: The prospect of sanctions on Iranian oil being lifted has depressed prices further.

6. Repartee (N):- adroitness and cleverness in reply.
Synonyms: backchat, banter, give-and-take, raillery
Uses: It’s mostly in the repartee and interactions with secondary characters.

7. Indelible (Adj):- cannot be removed or erased.
Synonyms: unerasable.
Uses: indelible memories.

8. Raconteur (N):- a person skilled in telling anecdotes.
Synonyms: anecdotist.
Uses: Raconteurs are gifted storytellers, able to spin amusing tales from everyday life.

9. Turgid (Adj):- ostentatiously lofty in style.
Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid.
USes: The movie’s plot was so turgid that people left the theater completely confused.
Trick: TURGID= (TURBID and TURGID river). If there is extreme turbidity in the river, then the river must a turgid river(swollen),because it washes away the mud from the bank.

10. Quiescence (N):- a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction.
Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency
Uses: While the bees are quiescent early in the morning and in the evening, they are overactive in the middle of the day.

Banking vocab

1. Immurement (N):- the state of being imprisoned.
Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration.
Uses: He practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon.

2. Abjure (V):- formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
Synonyms: forswear, recant, resile, retract.
Uses: In order to marry the peasant he loved, the prince made the decision to abjure his title.
Trick: Abjure think it like injure. so once you are injured you will give up. so abjure means give up. 

3. Portend (V):- indicate by signs.
Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate.
Uses: Even though I have low grades in school right now, I do not believe my report card will portend my success in life.
Trick: When we reached the port's end (sea port) we saw some dead bodies, which gave a sign that something bad was going to happen.

4. Visage (N):- the appearance conveyed by a person's face.
Synonyms: countenance, phiz, physiognomy, smiler.
Uses: After the blind sculptor touched her daughter’s face, she was able to perfectly create her child’s visage in clay.
Trick: VISion of AGE. How can you visualise someone's age? By his/her face.

5. Vagabond (N):- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support.
Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagrant.
Uses: One of our fervent readers Who is well known on BA as Solitary vagabond (pseudonym) but no one knows what is his actual name :))
Trick: This word can be thought as Vagabond = James Bond the spy, does not live at one permanent place and is always seen wandering all over the world.

6. Vendetta (N):- a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other.
Synonyms: blood feud.
Trick: Ven (when)- d (the)- etta (attack)....when they attack each other they are in vendetta.

7. venerable (Adj):- profoundly honored.
Synonyms: august, revered, most respected.
Uses: The Pope is a venerable leader who is recognized for his commitment to helping others.
Trick: Venerable politicians are vulnerable to attacks because they are savory.

8. Hackneyed (Adj):- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn.
Uses: Too often used by young girls, the word “like” has become hackneyed.
Trick: when a software is hacked, it becomes hackneyed because then all people are able to use that program without paying for.

9. Scrupulous (Adj):- characterized by extreme care and great effort.
Synonyms: conscientious, painstaking.
Uses: less scrupulous producers sent bundles that were deceptive in appearance
Trick: It makes u think of sculpture and while building sculpture the worker has to be very careful.

10. Gregarious (Adj):- If you know someone who's outgoing, sociable, and fond of the company of others, you might want to call her gregarious.
Synonyms: Social.
Uses: Gregarious people are likely to hang out with friends every weekend while reserved people keep to themselves.