English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 12th December 2015

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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated December 12th 2015. Happy Reading :)

Topic 1 : "Headway with David Headley"

1. Headway - Progress in a forward direction.
2. Ostensible - Apparent.
3. Pardon - Forgiveness of an offence.
4. Conspiracy - An Agreement to commit a crime.
5. Testify - Give evidence.
6. Disclosure - Secret information.
7. Reconnoitring - Observing in order to gain information.
8. Assailants - Person who attacks.
9. Co-conspirator - Associate (involved in a crime)
10. Testimony - Statement or Declaration of a witness.
11. To convict - To prove / declare guilty of an offence.
12. Plot - A secret plan which is unlawful.
    
13. Accomplice - A person who knowingly helps another in a crime.
14. Competent - (Here) Suitable witness.
15. Credible - Trustworthy.
16. Albeit - Although / Even if.
17. Maim - To injure people so badly.
18. Extradited - To give up another state or nation at its request.
19. Obliged - To bind morally as by a promise.
20. Rogatory - Pertaining to asking or requesting.
21. Irony - Odd / Contrast.
22. Condemned - Strongly disapproval of.
23. Affirmed - To confirm.
24. Concurrently - Occurring simultaneously.
25. Expediting - To speed up the progress.
26. Inconsistent - Lacking Agreement.
27. Resumption - The act of resuming.

Topic 2 : "Illiberal law, roll it back"

1. Dispiriting - Causes to lose enthusiasm / Excitement.
2. Debar - To shut out or exclude from a place.
3. Web of - Complicated pattern of.
4. Exclusionary - Excludes a particular person or group.
5. Precisely - Accurately and exactly.
6. Emphatically - Strongly expressive / Expressing in a forceful way.
7. Enact - To make into an act.
8. Repeal - Withdraw.
9. Desist - Stop / To cease.
10. Refrain - Keep from doing.
11. Curbs - Control / Limit.
12. Breach - Act of breaking it.
13. Imprint - A mark.
14. Juntas - Military government taking power by force and not through elections.
15. Setback - To place in a particular position.

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