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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated May 17th 2016. Click on the titles to read the Editorials. Happy reading :)
Note : There were no editorials in the Hindu on 16th May 2016.
- Intend - to have as a plan or purpose
- Proliferation - rapid increase in the number or amount of something
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries
- Plenary - a meeting or session attended by all participants at a conference or assembly
- Outreach - the extent or length of reaching out
- Though - however
- Backed - supported
- Signatory - a person, organization, or country that has signed an agreement
- Key - important
- Criterion - a standard by which you judge, decide about, or deal with something
- Disarmament - the reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose
- Fraught - full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers
- Diplomat - an official representing a country abroad
- Ambitions - targets / goals
- Persuasive - making you want to do or believe a particular thing
- Naysayers - someone who says something is not possible, is not good, or will fail
- Waiver - an agreement that you do not have to pay or obey something
- Appraise - to examine someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success, or needs
- Reckon - to think or believe
- Flexibility - the ability to be easily modified / willingness to change or compromise
- Eventually - in the end
- Curtail - to stop something before it is finished, or to reduce or limit something
- Arsenals - a collection of weapons and military equipment
- Underscore - underline / highlight
- Elite - a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society
- Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
- Crucial- very important
Topic 2 : "Waiting to exhale"
- Exhale - breathe out
- Assessment - to judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something
- Choked - to have serious difficulty in breathing
- Particulate matter - matter in the form of very small separate particles
- Crippled - seriously damaged
- Vast - of very great extent or quantity
- Deforestation - clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land
- Desertification - the process by which land changes into desert
- Cold comfort - poor or inadequate
- Deep-rooted - strongly felt or believed and very difficult to change or get rid of
- Impact - effect or influence
- Scrutiny - critical observation or examination
- Causative - acting as the cause of something
- For instance - for example
- Premature death - death that occurs before a person reaches an expected age
- Respiratory - relating to breathing
- Cardiac - relating to the heart
- Several - more than two but not many
- Household - a group of people (family), who live together
- Quantified - express or measure the quantity of
- Chronic - (especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time
- Obstructive - trying to stop someone from doing something by causing problems for them
- Pulmonary - relating to the lungs
- Ailment - illness
- Prompt - to make someone decide to say or do something
- Mitigation - the action of reducing the seriousness or painfulness of something
- Biomass - dead plant and animal material suitable for using as fuel
- Enlightened - showing understanding, acting in a positive way, and not following old-fashioned or false beliefs
- Ambitious - it needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved
- Curb - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Administration - the management of public affairs / government
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