Word List For SSC CGL

I am doing the preparation of the Vocabulary section of the Staff Selection Commission CGL exam so can you please provide me the list of words so that I can do my preparation of Vocabulary from those words? Also provide me some study materials of this exam?

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Word List For SSC CGL

Word List: A
• abacus: Frame with balls for calculating
• abate: To lessen, to subside
• abdication: Giving up control, authority
• abdomen: Stomach and bowels
• aberration: Straying away from what is normal
• abeyance; suspended action
• abhor: To hate, to detest
• abide: Be faithful to; endure
• abjure: Promise or swear to give up
• abraded: Rubbed off, worn away by friction
• abrasion: Rubbing, scraping, wearing off
• abrogate: Repeal or annul by authority
• abscond: To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
• abstruse: Difficult to comprehend; obscure
• abundant: Plentiful
• abut: Border on
• abysmal: Bottomless, extreme
• acarpous: Effete, no longer fertile, worn out
• accentuate: Give more force or attention to
• acclaimed: Welcomed with shouts and approval
• accolade: Praise, approval
• accretion: The growing of separate things into one
• acquiesce: In agree (without protest)
• acquisition: Smth acquired, acquiring
• adamant: Kind of stone; inflexible
• adhere: Remain faithful, stick fast to
• adhesion: Adhering, support
• adjacent: Lying near, next
• admonitory: Containing warning
• adorn: Add beauty; decorate
• adulteration: Making unpure, poorer in quality
• affinity: Close connection, relationship
• aggravate: Make worse; irritate
• agile: Active, quick-moving
• ail: Trouble; be ill
• alacrity: Eager and cheerful readiness
• alienate: Estrange
• allegiance: Duty, support, loyalty
• alleviate: Make (pain) easier to bear
• alloy: To debase by mixing with something inferior
• aloof: Reserved, indifferent
• amalgamate: Mix, combine, unite societies
• ambidextrous: Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
• ambiguous: Doubtful, uncertain
• ambivalent: Having both of two contrary meanings
• ameliorate: Improve, make better
• amendment: Improving
• amicable: Friendly
• amortize: End (a debt) by setting aside money
• amplify: Make large or fuller, increase the strength
• animosity: Strong dislike
• annul: Put an end to
• anticlimax: Sudden fall
• antidote: Medicine used against a poison or a disease
• antithetical: Direct opposing
• apartheid: Brutal racial discrimination
• apathetic: Indifference
• aplomb: Self-confidence
• apostate: One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
• apotheosis: Deification, glorification to godliness
• appease: Make quiet or calm
• apprehensive: Grasping, understanding; fear, unhappy feeling about future
• apprise: Give notice to, inform
• approbation: Approval
• appropriate: Take for one's own use, acquire, set aside
• apropos: Appropriate to the situation; apt
• apt: Well-suited, quick-witted
• arabesque: a complex, ornate design
• arabesque: Whimsical
• arbitrate: Decide by arbitration
• arboreal: Of connected with trees
• ardently: With full of ardor
• ardor: Enthusiasm
• arduous: Steep, difficult ascent; laborious
• argot: Jargon, slang
• arrant: In the highest degree
• arrogance: Proud, superior manner of behaviour
• articulate: Speak distinctly, connect by joints
• ascend: Go or come up
• ascent: The act of ascending
• ascertain: Get to know
• ascetic: Practicing self-denial, austere, stark
• ascribe: Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
• asperity: Roughness, harshness, ill temper, irritability
• aspersion: Slander
• assail: With attack violently
• asset: Valuable quality, smth that has money value
• assiduous: Diligent, hard-working, sedulous
• assuage: Make smth (pain, desire) less
• assumption: Smth supposed but not proved
• asterisk: The mark * (e. g. Omitted letters)
• astringent: Substance that shrinks
• astute: Clever; quick at seeing to get an advantage
• atonement: Repayment; death of Jesus
• attenuate: Make thin. Weaken, enervate
• audacious: Daring, foolishly bold, impudent
• augury: Omen, sign
• august: Majestic, venerable
• auspice: Protection or support, patronage
• auspicious: Favorable, successful, prosperous
• austere: Severely moral and strict; simple and plain
• auxiliary: Helping, supporting
• aver: Affirm, assert, prove, justify
• aversion: Strong dislike
• avid: Eager, greedy
• avow: Admit. Declare openly
• acumen: Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination. Adage: An old saying.
• adamant: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability. Admonition: Gentle reproof.
• adumbrate: To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
• affable: Easy to approach.
• aggrandize: To cause to appear greatly.
• aggravate: To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
• agile: Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
• agog: In eager desire.
• alacrity: Cheerful willingness.
• alcove: A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room. Alleviate: To make less burdensome or less hard to bear. Aloof: Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others. Amalgamate: To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body. Ambidextrous: Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. Ambiguous: Having a double meaning. Ameliorate: To relieve, as from pain or hardship anathema: Anything forbidden, as by social usage. Animadversion: The utterance of criticism or censure. Animosity: Hatred.
• antediluvian: Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
• antidote: Anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease, or the like:
• aplomb: Confidence; coolness.
• apprise: To give notice to; to inform.
• approbation: Sanction.
• arboreal: Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
• ardor: Intensity of passion or affection.
• argot: A specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group. Arrant: Notoriously bad.
• ascetic: Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion.
• ascribe: To assign as a quality or attribute. Asperity: Harshness or roughness of temper. Assiduous: Unceasing; persistent
• assuage: To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease. Astringent: Harsh in disposition or character. Astute: Keen in discernment.
• atonement: Amends, reparation, or expiation made from wrong or injury.
• audacious: Fearless.
• augury: Omen
• auspicious: Favorable omen
• austere: Severely simple; unadorned.
• autocrat: Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence. Auxiliary: One who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory. Avarice: Passion for getting and keeping riches. Aver: To avouch, justify or prove


Word List: B
• Baleful-harmful, ominous, causing evil
• Balk-obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
• Balloon-swell out like balloon
• Balm-sweet-smelling oil; consolation
• Banal-uninteresting
• Band-flat, thin strip of material; range of frequencies
• Bane-cause of injury, poison, source of harm
• Baneful-causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive
• Barrage-artificial obstacle built across a river
• Barren-not good enough, unable to have young ones, without value
• bask in-enjoy warmth and light
• bazaar-market
• be irreconcilable-cannot be brought into harmony
• beatify-to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to
• bedizen-to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner
• belie-contradict, give a false impression
• belittle-cause to seem unimportant
• bellicose-belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
• belligerent- (person, nation) waging war
• belligerently-waging war
• bend-cause smth to be out of a straight line
• benefactor-person who has given help
• benevolence-wish or activity in doing good
• benign-kind and gentle; mild (climate)
• bequest-arrangement to give smth at death
• berate: Scold sharply
• bereft-rob or dispossess of smth (material)
• bewilder-puzzle, confuse
• biased-prejudice
• bigot: Stubborn, narrow-minded person
• bilge: Bulge, the protuberance of a cask
• blandishment-flattery, coaxing
• blandness-polite manner, comforting, uninteresting
• blatant: Noisy and rough
• blithe: Cheerful, casual, carefree
• blithe: Gay and joyous
• blueprint-plan, scheme, photographic print
• blunt-plain, not troubling to be polite
• boggle-be alarmed, hesitate, amazed
• bogus: Sham, counterfeit, not genuine
• boisterous: Loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint
• bolster-give greatly needed support
• boorish: Crude, offensive, rude
• braid: Strands of hair woven together, smth edging sloth
• brash: Hasty, rush; cheeky, saucy
• brass: Yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
• brazen-made of brass
• breach-opening, broken place, breaking
• brisk: Active, lively
• brisket: Breast of an animal
• brittle: Easily broken
• broach: Bring up, announce, begin to talk about
• brook: To tolerate, endure
• buoyant-able to float; light-hearted
• burgeon: Grow forth, send out buds
• burnish-to polish, rub to a shine
• bust: Run out of money
• banal: Commonplace.
• bask: To make warm by genial heat.
• beatify: To make supremely happy.
• bedaub: To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
• bellicose: Warlike.
• belligerent: Manifesting a warlike spirit. Benefactor: A doer of kindly and charitable acts. Benevolence: Any act of kindness or well-doing. Benign: Good and kind of heart. Berate: To scold severely.
• bewilder: To confuse the perceptions or judgment of. Blandishment: Flattery intended to persuade. Blatant: Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous. Blithe: Joyous.
• boisterous: Unchecked merriment or animal spirits. Bolster: To support, as something wrong.
• bombast: Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects.
• boorish: Rude.
• breach: The violation of official duty, lawful right, or a legal obligation. Brittle: Fragile.
• broach: To mention, for the first time. Bumptious: Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit. Buoyant: Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat. Burnish: To make brilliant or shining.


Word List: C
• cabal: a scheme or plot, a group of plotters
• cadge: To beg, to get by begging
• calipers: Metal supports attached to the legs, measuring instrument
• calumniate: To slander, present false accusal
• calumny: Slander, aspersion
• candid: Frank, straight-forward
• canvass: Discuss thoroughly; sort of touting
• capricious-fickle, whimsical, given to change, unpredictable
• castigate: To chastise, correct by punishing
• castigation: Severe punishment
• casual: Happening by chance, careless
• catalyst: Substance that causes speeding up
• caustic: Biting, sarcastic
• censure: Expression of blame or disapproval; a rebuke
• census: Official counting of the population
• centurion: Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
• chary: Cautious, wary
• chastened-corrected, punished
• chastisement: Punishment
• chauvinist-a blindly devoted patriot
• chisel: Steel tool for shaping materials
• churl: Bad-tempered person
• cite: Give as an example
• clamor: Shout, complain with a lot of noise
• cleanse: Make pure, thoroughly clean
• cling to: Resist separation
• clot: Half-solid lump formed from liquid
• cloture: Closing, device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
• coalescing: Coming together and uniting into one substance
• coax: Get smb to do smth by kindness
• coddle: Treat with care and tenderness
• coerce: Compel, to force to make obedient
• coeval: Of the same period, coexisting
• cogent: Strong, convincing
• cogitate: Think deeply, mediate
• cognition-knowing, awareness (emotionless)
• cognizant: Being fully aware of
• coherent: Sticking together
• colander: Bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
• collaborate-work in partnership
• collusion: Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
• combustion: Process of burning
• commemorate: Keep the memory of
• commend: Praise
• commendable: Worthy of praise
• commingle: Mingle together
• commuter: Person who travels regularly
• complacently-with self-satisfaction
• complaisance: Tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please
• comply: Act in accordance
• compound: Mix or combine
• comprise: Be composed of
• compunction-feeling of regret for one's action
• conceal: Hide, keep secret
• conceit: Over-high opinion of, too much pride
• conciliatory: Reconciling, soothing, comforting, mollifying
• concord: Agreement or harmony
• concur-agree in opinion, happen together
• condense: Increase in density, strength, make laconic
• condone: Forgive
• congeal: Make or become stiff and solid
• conjoin: To join together
• connoisseur: a person with good judgement (e. g. In art)
• connotation: Suggestion in addition to
• consent: Give agreement or permission
• consequential: Pompous, self important
• consolation: Consoling or being consoled
• console-give comfort or sympathy to
• conspicuous-easily seen; remarkable
• consternation-surprise and fear, dismay
• constrict: Make tight or smaller
• consume: Get to the end of
• contemn: To scorn or despise
• contentious: Argumentative, pugnacious, combative, quarrelsome
• contiguous-touching, neighboring, near
• contrite: Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
• contumacious-insubordinate, rebellious
• conundrum-a riddle, dilemma, enigma
• conviction: Convincing; firm belief
• convoke: Call together, summon
• convoluted: Complicated; coiled, twisted
• cord: Twisted strands
• cordial: Warm and sincere
• cordon: Line (of police acting as a guard)
• corporeal: Physical; of or for the body
• correlate-have a mutual relation
• corroboration-additional, strengthening evidence
• countenance: To favor or approve of
• counterfeit: Forgery
• countervail: Counterbalance
• covert: Disguised
• covetous: Eagerly desirous
• cower: Crouch; shrink back
• craven: Cowardly
• crease: Line made by crushing; white line on the ground in cricket
• credulity: Too great a readiness to believe things
• credulous: Ready to believe things
• crush: Press, lose shape, subdue, overwhelm
• cryptic: Secret, with a hidden meaning
• cumbersome: Burdensome, heavy and awkward to carry
• curmudgeon-bad-tempered person
• curriculum-course of study
• cursory: Quick, hurried
• curtail: Make shorter then was planned
• cynic: Person who see no good in anything
• cabal: A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose. Cacophony: A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones. Cajole: To impose on or dupe by flattering speech. Callow: Without experience of the world. Calumny: Slander. Candid: Straightforward.
• cant: To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity. Capacious: Roomy.
• capitulate: To surrender or stipulate terms. Captious: Hypercritical. Castigate: To punish.
• cataract: Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness. Caustic: Sarcastic and severe.
• censure: To criticize severely; also, an expression of disapproval.
• centurion: A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army.
• chagrin: Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.
• chary: Careful; wary; cautious.
• chicanery: The use of trickery to deceive.
• circumlocution: Indirect or roundabout expression.
• coddle: To treat as a baby or an invalid.
• coerce: To force.
• coeval: Existing during the same period of time; also, a contemporary. Cogent: Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience. Cogitate: Consider carefully and deeply; ponder. Cognizant: Taking notice.
• colloquial: Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary.
• collusion: A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
• comestible: Fit to be eaten.
• commemorate: To serve as a remembrance of:
• complaisance: Politeness.
• complement: To make complete.
• comport: To conduct or behave (oneself).
• compunction: Remorseful feeling.
• conceit: Self-flattering opinion.
• conciliatory: Tending to reconcile.
• concord: Harmony.
• concur: To agree.
• condense: To abridge.
• conflagration: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like. Confluence: The place where streams meet. Congeal: To coagulate. Conjoin: To unite.
• connoisseur: A critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art. Console: To comfort. Conspicuous: Clearly visible. Consternation: Panic. Constrict: To bind.
• consummate: To bring to completion.
• contiguous: Touching or joining at the edge or boundary.
• contrite: Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
• contumacious: Rebellious.
• copious: Plenteous.
• cornucopia: The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity. Corporeal: Of a material nature; physical.
• correlate: To put in some relation of connection or correspondence.
• corroboration: Confirmation.
• counterfeit: Made to resemble something else.
• countervail: To offset.
• covert: Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
• cower: To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
• crass: Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
• credulous: Easily deceived.
• cupidity: Avarice.
• cursory: Rapid and superficial.
• curtail: To cut off or cut short.
• cynosure: That to which general interest or attention is directed.