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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 October 2018. Happy reading :)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Averting polarisation: on SC pushing back Ayodhya verdict"
- Avert - to prevent something bad or harmful from happening
- Polarisation - the act of dividing something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, into two completely separate groups
- Push back - to delay something so that it happens later than planned
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Judicious - showing intelligence and good judgment
- Timeline - a plan of when something should happen or how much time something should take
- Decline - to refuse
- Hearing - a meeting of a court of law or official organization to find out the facts about something
- Diminished - reduced in amount, size, or importance
- Adjournment - a pause or rest during a formal meeting or trial, or the act of giving a pause or rest
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Run-up - to make something very quickly
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Regardless - without being affected or influenced by someone or something
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Aggressive - someone who is aggressive is very determined to win or be successful
- Proponent - someone who publicly supports an idea, policy, plan etc
- Favourable - giving someone or something an advantage or a benefit
- Tailor - to make or prepare something following particular instructions
- Stoke - to make a feeling stronger
- Exploit - to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this
- Put off - to delay doing something, especially because you do not want to do it
- Pragmatic - involving or emphasizing practical results rather than theories and ideas
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Unwise - stupid and likely to cause problems
- Equate - to consider something to be the same as something else
- Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
- Postponement - to decide that something will not be done at the time when it was planned for, but at a later time
- Preclude - if one thing precludes another, the first thing prevents the second one from happening
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Disputed - a disputed area is one that different countries claim belongs to them, so that there is a disagreement or war between them
- Clamour - to say that you want something and must have it
- Imprudent - not sensible, especially in relation to the way that money is spent or invested
- Vigilant - always being careful to notice things, especially possible danger:
- Resourceful - good at finding effective ways to deal with problems
- Ensure - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Legitimacy - the fact that something is legal
- Resolute - extremely determined
- Demolish - to deliberately destroy a building
- Acquire - to get something
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Circumvent - to find a way of avoiding a rule or law that limits you, especially using a clever trick that does not break the law
- Address - a formal speech
- Moratorium - an official agreement to stop an activity temporarily
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Spirit - a particular way of thinking, feeling, or behaving
- Legitimate - fair and reasonable
- Pre-emptive - done or said to prevent something from happening
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Zia, cornered: on BNP facing setback in Bangladesh"
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Imperil - to put someone or something in danger
- Meagre - smaller or less than you want or need
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Sentence - when a judge sentences someone, they officially state what someone’s punishment will be
- Rigorous - strict, or severe
- Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison
- Acting - someone who does a job for a short time while the person who usually does that job is not there
- Exile - a situation in which you are forced to live in a foreign country because you cannot live in your own country, usually for political reasons
- Convicted - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- In absentia - if something happens in absentia, the person involved is not present when it happens
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Grenade - a small bomb that someone throws or fires from a gun
- Rally - a public meeting that a lot of people go to in order to support someone or something or to protest against someone or something
- Cripple - to damage something severely, or to prevent it from working properly
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Minor - not very important in comparison with people or things of the same type
- Secular - not religious, or not connected with religion
- Icon - someone who is very famous and who people think represents a particular idea
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Fortunes - the things that happen to someone or something and the changing degree to which they are successful
- Lopsided - not equal
- Entrenched - entrenched attitudes or feelings have existed for a long time and are difficult to change
- League - a group of people or things that are similar in their quality, skills, or achievements
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Vengeance - the act of harming or killing someone because they have done something bad to you
- Misleading - intended or likely to make someone believe something that is incorrect or not true
- Punitive - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
- Fundamentalism - the belief that the original laws of a religion should be followed very strictly and not be changed
- Repressive - ruling or controlling people by the use of force or violence, or by laws that put unreasonable limits on their freedom
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
- Veneer - a pleasant appearance, or a polite way of behaving that is not sincere
- Illegitimacy - not legal or fair
- Contention - an opinion or statement that something is true, especially one made during a discussion or argument
- Backfire - if a plan or idea backfires, it has the opposite effect to the one that you wanted
- Creditable - good enough to deserve some praise or admiration
- Tangible - important and noticeable
- Infant - a baby, or a very young child
- Mortality - the number of deaths within a particular area, group etc
- Fertility - a woman’s ability to have babies
- Sanitation - conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
- Misgiving - a feeling of fear or doubt about whether something is right or will have a good result
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Impatient - annoyed because something is not happening as quickly as you want or in the way you want
- Critic - someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it
- Guilty - someone who is guilty has committed a crime
- Misdemeanour - an action that is bad or wrong, but not in a serious way
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Overreach - to try to do more than your ability, authority, or money will allow
- Ominous - making you think that something bad will happen
- Stringent - stringent rules or conditions are strict and make you achieve high standards
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Liberate - to make a place or the people in it free from soldiers who have been controlling it
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Chilling - making you feel suddenly very frightened or worried
- Pursue - to follow a course of activity
- Quasi - partly
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Emasculate - to reduce the power or effectiveness of something
- Delegitimise - to make something seem not valid or not acceptable
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
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