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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 31st January 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "As bigotry becomes policy"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The enemy within"
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "As bigotry becomes policy"
- Bigotry - the practice of having very strong and unreasonable opinions, especially about politics, race, or religion, and refusing to consider other people’s opinions
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Vetting - make a careful and critical examination of (something)
- Via - going through one place on the way to another place
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Owing to - because of
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Indefinitely - for a period of time that has no fixed end
- Asylum - protection or safety, especially that given by a government to people who have been forced to leave their own countries for their safety or because of war
- Refugee - a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war
- Enthused - to express excitement about something or great interest in it
- Core constituency - the most important group or groups supporting an ideology, political party, officeholder, or candidate, and whose continuing support is crucial for survival and success
- Predominantly - mainly, or mostly
- Blue-collar workers - blue-collar workers do work needing strength or physical skill rather than office work
- Racial - connected with someone's race (skin colour or other physical features)
- Shock wave - a very strong reaction that spreads through a group of people when something surprising or bad happens
- Abroad - in or to a foreign country
- Sparked - to cause the start of something
- Bonanza - a situation from which large profits are made
- Counterattack - an attack intended to stop or oppose an attack by an enemy or competitor
- Overreach - to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage
- Irreparable - impossible to repair or make right again
- Enjoin - to legally force someone to do something or stop doing something
- Restrained - controlled
- Immigration - the act of someone coming to live in a different country
- Beg the question - if a statement or situation begs the question, it causes you to ask a particular question
- Constitutional - allowed by the constitution of a country or organization
- Circumscribed - to limit something such as power, rights, or opportunities
- Discriminate - to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc
- Scrambled - to compete with other people for something there is very little of
- Concern - a worried or nervous feeling about something
- Talent pool - the suitable, skilled people who are available to be chosen to do a particular type of job
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Beacon - someone or something that encourages people and gives them a good example to follow
- Humane - showing kindness, care, and sympathy towards others, especially those who are suffering
- Authoritarian - demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as they wish
- Insistence - a very firm statement that something must happen or that something is true
- Preferential - giving one person or group an advantage over others
- Bogeyman - someone or something that people believe is bad and causes problems
- Retrograde - returning to a condition or situation that is worse than the present one
- Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The enemy within"
- Ideological - based on or relating to a particular set of ideas or beliefs
- Affinity - a natural understanding and sympathy between people
- Prospect - the possibility that something good might happen in the future
- Pelf - money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonourable way
- Alliance - a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims
- A parting of ways - the point at which two people or organizations separate
- Just around the corner - coming very soon
- Urban - relating to towns and cities, or happening there
- Inevitable - certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
- Reconcile - to find a way to make ideas, beliefs, needs etc that are opposed to each other capable of existing together
- Breakdown - a division of something into smaller parts
- Negotiations - the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them, or the discussions themselves
- Resent - to feel angry because you have been forced to accept someone or something that you do not like
- Cede - to allow someone else to have or own something, especially unwillingly or because you are forced to do so
- Significant - important
- Probability - the level of possibility of something happening or being true
- Embarrassingly - making you feel nervous, ashamed, or stupid
- Indulge - to allow yourself or another person to have something enjoyable, especially more than is good for you
- Name-calling - the act of insulting someone by calling them rude names
- Consequence - to accept responsibility for your actions, whatever happens
- Played down - to try to make a problem or difficult situation seem less important than it is
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Chauvinism - the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important
- Vulnerable - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
- Poaching - to persuade someone to leave a group or organization and become a member of yours, especially by using secret or dishonest methods
- Under the threat - likely to be harmed or damaged
- Conflict - an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
- Unsurprisingly - in a way that you expected
- Flip-flop - an occasion when someone completely changes a plan
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Hostile - not agreeing with something
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