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 Best English Notes For IAS Prelims Paper 2 CSAT -
Vocabulary

Perilous (adjective)

Meaning: full of danger or risk.

Synonyms: hazardous

Antonyms: safe, secure

Alongside that slender but potentially

perilous watery channel, like
generations before, I sat on the gravelly
steps leading down into the river.
Demarcated (verb)

Meaning: separate or distinguish from

Synonyms: differentiate

Antonyms: attach, combine

When I was a kid in a family of three,

there were clear roles demarcated for
my mother, my father and myself, with
additional walkon parts for the people
who worked in our house.
Prophylactic (noun)
Meaning: intended to prevent disease.

Synonyms: inhibitory

Antonyms: facilitating

People continued to shout orders well

into the ’80s and ’90s and up to today;
and anyone who’s seen a macho
corporate boss or advertising firm tyrant
do their Michael Douglas impression
knows that a fancy business school in
America or Europe provides no
prophylactic against the bullying
Sergeant Major method, that in fact
Psychopathy (noun)

Meaning: mental illness or disorder.

Synonyms: aberration

Antonyms: calmness

One friend, who was otherwise completely

devoid of any control psychopathy (and
was an inveterate rulebreaker on the quiet),
was also made a monitor.
Subalterns (noun)

Meaning: someone with a low ranking in a

social, political, or other hierarchy or someone
who has been oppressed.

Synonyms: inferior, assistant

Antonyms: superior

Shouting down at subalterns continues in our

society and it cuts across class and ethnicity; if
the foreman of a working gang starts shouting,
it means that he is getting worried about his
position or his ability to execute the job; if a
wealthy, privileged person has a screaming fit
at people who are ‘below’ them, it shows the
Rancour (noun)

Meaning: bitterness or resentfulness, especially

when long standing.

Synonyms: hostility

Antonyms: friendliness

This guy, who I knew really well, developed a

technique that I had to admire: he would call
out instructions and orders in a carrying voice
that expected to be obeyed, but there was no
anger or rancour in it.
Paraphernalia (noun)

Meaning: miscellaneous articles,

especially the equipment needed for a
particular activity

Synonyms: impedimenta

Antonyms: immovable

By now, the world over, many human

lives revolve around flitting between
electronic screens: from telephones in
hands, computer screens at work,
televisions and handheld devices in
homes. To say nothing of the similar
Cornucopia (noun)

Meaning: a large amount or supply of

something

Synonyms: repository

Antonyms: inadequacy, paucity

These digital obelisks continuously

stream information about the city,
cultural history of New York, vintage
photographs, weather warnings, and an
unending cornucopia of quiz and
facts.
Mulling (verb)

Meaning: think about (something) deeply

and at length.

Synonyms: ponder, contemplate

Antonyms: forget, ignore

The NSE is reportedly mulling a premium

board to try and attract better governed
entities to try and list on it. This is long
overdue given that many major global
exchanges already have one.
Tumultuous (adjective)

Meaning: excited, confused, or disorderly.

Synonyms: boisterous

Antonyms: mild, peaceful

Even the august Reserve Bank of India’s board

of directors, which met last week under new
Governor Shaktikanta Das after the sudden and
tumultuous exit of Urjit Patel, reportedly felt
that governance standards at India’s central
bank, which also doubles up as the banking
regulator, needed some improvement.
 Meticulous (adjective)

Meaning: showing great attention to detail;

very careful and precise

Synonyms: diligent

Antonyms: careless

The meticulous packers then shut the

suitcases, stand next to the door and wait for
the transport that will get them to the airport
well in advance.
Condoned (verb)

Meaning: accept (behaviour that is considered

morally wrong or offensive).

Synonyms: allow

Antonyms: condemn

However, post the Satyam fiasco, when more and

more instances of malpractices that were
overlooked, condoned or even actively abetted
by auditors came to light, the government felt
that mandatory rotation would at least solve the
problem of “proximity”
Helmed (verb)

Meaning: manage (an organization).

Synonyms: serve

Antonyms: refuse, shun

Ravi Parthasarathy, the man who helmed IL&FS

for more than 30 years (he quietly quit just days
before the roof collapsed on IL&FS), appears to
have managed to secure a board which rubber
stamped all his decisions.
 Circumvent (verb)

Meaning: find a way around (an obstacle).

Synonyms: evade

Antonyms: observe

When CEOs stay for a very long time, they

can manage to build a cosy circle of
support around them, which can
circumvent all firewalls and checks.
Inordinately (adverb)

Meaning: to an unusually or disproportionately

large degree

Synonyms: excessively

Antonyms: limited

Variations on this theme had preoccupied the

British colonisers as well, although their focus
was inordinately on the macabre.
Veneration (noun)

Meaning: great respect

Synonyms: reverence

Antonyms: disrespect

Our rivers continue to be receptacles of

our detritus and yet they remain as
objects of veneration.
 Concomitant (adjective)

Meaning: naturally accompanying or

associated.

Synonyms: collateral

Antonyms: unrelated

This has concomitant political

obligations which must be accepted as
essential.
Obnoxious (adjective)

Meaning: extremely unpleasant

Synonyms: abhorrent

Antonyms: decent

This decline happened even before

demonetisation and the decline
continues because of intrusive and
sometime obnoxious tax measures
Galvanise (verb)

Meaning: shock or excite (someone) into

taking action

Synonyms: impel

Antonyms: demotivate

Thus the present possibility of an economic

crash should galvanise us to review honestly
the way we have governed and done the
business of governing.
Reverberating (verb)

Meaning: (of a loud noise) be repeated

several times as an echo.

Synonyms: pulsate

Antonyms: quiet

Despite my protest, it was introduced much

as a carnival in Parliament, with gongs
reverberating.
Staggering (verb)

Meaning: astonished or deeply shock

Synonyms: amaze, startle

Antonyms: unimpressive

At the same time, the staggering silence of

those higher up — namely, those in political
power at the Centre who exercise informal
control over public sector enterprises — lends
credence to speculation that the AAI may not
have acted on its own.
 Bigotry (noun)

Meaning: intolerance towards those who hold

different opinions from oneself.

Synonyms: prejudice

Antonyms: tolerance

In doing so, it has called out the AAI’s

capitulation to bigotry and called the bluff of
those who threatened the show.
Deferred (verb)

Meaning: put off (an action or event) to a later

time

Synonyms: adjourn

Antonyms: advance

And for another, if the AAI had merely postponed

the show as it suggested, why couldn’t it have
declared when the deferred programme would
be held?
Tardiness (noun)

Meaning: the quality or fact of being late

Synonyms: retardation

Antonyms: punctuality

The reasons are not difficult to guess: utter

tardiness in the process of calling for
applications, holding recruitment
examinations and declaring the results,
and, more significantly, finding the funds
to pay and accommodate the newly
appointed judges and magistrates.
Triumvirate (noun)

Meaning: a group of three people who are in

control of an activity or organization

Synonyms: triad

Antonyms: Chief

The Indian economy, however, needs to

grow at 10%plus per year for the next 10
years to achieve full employment and for
India’s GDP to overtake China’s GDP and
pave the way to form a global economic
triumvirate with the U.S. and China.
Burgeoning (verb)

Meaning: begin to grow or increase rapidly

Synonyms: proliferate, flourish

Antonyms: withering

The burgeoning docket burden that

weighs down the judiciary is not because of
its lumbering judicial processes alone, as it
is often made out.
 Excursion (verb)
Meaning:a short journey or trip, especially
one taken as a leisure activity

Synonyms: expedition

Antonyms: stay

During a stint at Oxford University, she had

done a paper on the Siachen Glacier, and it’s
at the base of the glacier that her excursion
ends.
 Surreptitious (adjective)

Meaning: kept secret, especially because it

would not be approved of.

Synonyms: clandestine

Antonyms: open, honest

The river had survived sand mining mafias,

invasive foreign species, chemicals — small
and surreptitious abuses that wreck its
ecosystem.
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