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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 11th January 2016. Happy Reading :)
Note : There were No Editorials in The Hindu on 9th & 10th January 2016.
Topic 1 : "Mehbooba Mufti’s tough task"
- Vacuum - lack of something
- Mainstream - considered normal
- Coalition - group of people who join together for a common cause
- Succession - a process in which someone automatically takes an official position or job after someone else
- Murmurs - to complain about something that you disagree with or dislike, but not in a public way
- Dissent - a difference of opinion
- Conciliatory - compromising
- Reluctance - unwillingness to do something
- Cross-section - something that has been cut in half so that you can see the inside
- Enormous - very large in size
- Mourning - the expression of sorrow for someone's death.
- Take over/up the reins - to take control of something
- Spike - a narrow, thin shape with a sharp point at one end
- Stronghold - a place where a particular belief or activity is common
- Slain - to kill in a violent way
- Fallout - to argue with someone and stop being friendly with them
- Alliance - a union or association formed for mutual benefit
- Allies - people associated with others for some common cause or purpose
- Rivals - people competing with others for the same thing or in the same area
- Slightest - smallest
- Misstep - mistake
- Temper - hardness (the tendency to become angry very quickly)
- Afloat - out of debt or difficulty.
- Assertiveness - quality of being confident to say what you want / believe
- Diplomacy - the management of relationships between countries
- Flock - group of people
Topic 2 : "Sri Lanka’s historic opportunity"
- Drafting - to prepare a preliminary version of a document
- Constitution - the set of political principles by which a state or organization is governed (especially in relation to the rights of the people it governs)
- Renew - to begin doing something again
- Owing to - because of
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Extremism - unreasonable and unacceptable political / religious views
- Entrenched - fixed for so long (you can't change now)
- Invocation - to make someone have a particular feeling or remember something
- Candid - frank / straightforward
- Protracted - lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
- Laced with something - a small amount has been added to it
- Apprehension - anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen
- Impediments - anything that slows or blocks progress
- Bogey - something that causes fear among a lot of people (without reason)
- Asserted - to say that something is certainly true
- Indigenous - naturally existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place
- Reform - to make changes in something in order to improve it
- Turn the clock back - to make things to be the way they were in the past
- Contour - an outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something
- Abolishing - to end something
- Regime - government
- Substantive - having a separate and independent existence
- Pitfalls - hidden or unsuspected dangers or difficulties
- Emergence - the process of coming into existence
- Conflict - fighting between two or more groups of people or countries
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Plantation Tamils - Tamil People who permanently settled in Sri Lanka
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