English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 9th January 2016

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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Yesterday I missed updating Editorial of 9th January 2016. So, Here I am posting the same. I will post the vocabulary of 12th and 13th 2016 by this evening.  Happy Reading :)

Topic 1 : "The U.S.’s firearms menace"

• Menace - something that is ​likely to ​cause ​harm
• Parted - separated
• Shed tears - cry
• Reform - make changes in something in order to improve it
• Massacred - an ​act of ​killing a lot of ​people
• Seared - to have a ​strong ​unpleasant ​effect on someone's ​feelings or ​memories
• Stubborn - ​difficult
• Lax - without much ​care / control
• Enforce - cause something to happen by force
• Herald - a ​sign that something will ​happen
• Firearm - gun
  
• Quagmire - dangerous place / situation
• Enshrined - ​protected
• Bear arms - to carry weapons
• Pitch - a ​speech that ​attempts to ​convince someone to do something
• Disposed of something - to get rid of something / to ​deal with something so that the ​matter is ​finished
• Hostile - not ​agreeing with something
• Echoes - repeats
• Omnibus - comprising several items
• Prospect - the possibility of some future event occurring
• Certainty - something that cannot be ​doubted
• Lack of teeth - lacking ability to punish for a given situation
• Proliferation - rapid increase in the number or amount of something
• Abysmal - extremely bad
• Rampage - violent and usually ​wild ​behaviour
• Lifeblood - most important thing for success / existence
• Proclaim - announce officially or publicly
• Bolstered - supported
• Intractable - hard to control or deal with
• Impediment - something that makes ​progress
• Proclivity - a tendency to choose or do something wrong
• Unwinding - relax after a period of work or tension
• Contrary - opposite in nature
• Tyranny - a ​situation in which someone completely ​controls you in an unfair way

Topic 2 : "China’s contagious economic turmoil"

• Turmoil - a state of great disturbance / confusion
• Bumpy - not ​smooth
• Volatility - changing ​suddenly / suddenly ​become ​violent or ​angry
• Depreciation - reduction in the value
• Declined - decreased
• Perspective - a ​particular way of ​considering something
• Accelerating - faster
• Outflows - a large amount of money that moves or is transferred out of a place
• Sustainable - able to ​continue over a ​period of ​time
• Frenetic - involving a lot of ​excited ​movement or ​activity
• Appetite - the ​feeling of ​wanting or ​needing something
• Silver lining - a sign of hope in an unfortunate situation
• Deficit - loss
• Threat - bad situation
• Diminish - reduce
• Shrunk - smaller than before
• Elude - escape
• Easing - move carefully
• Scenario - a ​description of ​possible ​actions or ​events in the ​future

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