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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 30th December 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sasikala rising"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Peace on track in Colombia"
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sasikala rising"
- Nominated - to officially suggest that someone should be given a job
- Council - a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject, to represent a particular group, or to run a particular organization
- Elevation - the act of giving someone higher status or a more important position
- Entreaties - a strong serious request that you make to someone about something that is worrying you
- Cult - extreme admiration for someone or something
- Fractious - easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining
- Contender - someone who competes with other people to try to win something
- Backed - supported
- Prominent - very well known and important
- Rely on - depend on
- Enthused - to express excitement about something or great interest in it
- Lacks - to not have enough of something that is needed or wanted
- Orchestrated - with every detail very carefully planned, sometimes secretly
- Backroom - used for describing work that is important but is done in a private or secret way
- Helm - officially controlling an organization or company
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Imposing - large and impressive
- Undermined - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Ascent - the process of becoming more important or famous
- Urged - to strongly advise someone to do a particular thing
- Backing - support
- Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen
- Resistance - refusal to accept something new such as a plan, idea, or change
- Accused - the person who is on trial in a law court (for doing something wrong / committing a crime)
- Disproportionate - if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of a crime
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that something happens, especially that people obey a law or rule
- Directorate - a part of a government department that deals with a particular area of activity
- Reinforce - to make something stronger
- Baron - an extremely powerful person in a particular area of business
- Possession - the fact that you have or own something
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Unwise - stupid and likely to cause problems
- Improper - dishonest and against a law or a rule
- Emerged - to become known
- Fragile - not very strong or healthy
- Restraint - calm and controlled behaviour
- Haste - great speed in doing something because of limited time
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Peace on track in Colombia"
- There's many a slip twixt cup and lip - said to emphasize that many bad things might happen before something is finished
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Ratify - to make an agreement official
- Painstakingly - in a way that shows you have taken a lot of care or made a lot of effort
- Negotiated - happening or existing as a result of formal discussions
- Insurgent - someone who is fighting against the government in their own country
- Piecemeal - not done according to a plan but done at different times in different ways
- Ambitious - if a plan or idea is ambitious, it needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Rebel - a person who is opposed to the political system in their country and tries to change it using force
- Unanimous - if a group of people are unanimous, they all agree about one particular matter or vote the same way
- Amnesty - a fixed period of time during which people are not punished for committing a particular crime
- Immunity - a situation in which you are protected from legal action
- Prosecution - the act of saying someone did a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Hurdle - a problem that you have to deal with before you can make progress
- Accord - agreement
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal, or unkind
- Tribunal - a special court or group of people who are officially chosen, especially by the government, to examine (legal) problems of a particular type
- Intransigence - an unreasonable refusal to change your ideas or behaviour
- Vigorous - very forceful or energetic
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Eventually - at the end of a process or period of time in which many things happen
- Ratify - to make an agreement official
- Abstained - to not do something
- Lenient - if a person or system is lenient, they punish someone less seriously than they could
- Reassure - to make someone feel less worried about something
- Demobilisation - to send members of military forces home, especially after a war has ended
- Breakthrough - an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem
- Ballast - support
- Agrarian - relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Civilian - a person who is not a member of the police or the armed forces
- Culminating - to happen or exist as the final result of a process or situation
- Negotiation - the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them, or the discussions themselves
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