English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 28th January 2016

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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 28th January 2016. Happy Reading :)

Topic 1 : "A message in Amit Shah"

Aide - an assistant to an important person (political leader)
Crafted - arranged / designed
Campaign - work in an organized and active way towards a goal
Momentum - the force that keeps an event developing
Proximity - nearness / closeness
Conjunction - the situation in which events or conditions combine or happen together
Indeed - really or certainly (used to express that something is correct)
Patriarch - the male leader of a family / group
Stare down - to overcome something
Triumph - a great victory or achievement
Replicating - repeating / to make an exact copy of something
Three-fold - by three times
Debacle - a complete failure (especially because of bad planning and organization)
Revive - regain life / strength.
Rally the base - to get support from the people
Polarisation - to divide people into completely opposing groups
Overarching - most important
Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to influence people
Outright - completely
Mobilisation - assembling and making ready for an action
Communally - belonging to the people of a community
Divisive - causing great and unfriendly disagreement within a group of people
Rabble-rousers - people who makes speeches that make people excited or angry (usually intentionally in order to make them act in a particular way)
Contrast - difference
Lynching - to punish a person without legal process or authority
Conformity - behaviour that follows the usual standards that are expected by a group or society

Topic 2 : "Denmark’s absurd law on refugees"

Absurd - stupid and unreasonable
Confiscate - to take someone's property with authority
Asylum - protection or safety, given by a government to people who have been forced to leave their own countries because of war
Refugees - people who have been forced to leave their country in order to escape war or natural disaster
Danes - native people of Denmark
Starker - simpler
In line with - similar to
Seizing - to take something quickly and keep it
Upkeep - the process of keeping something in good condition
Fleeing - run away from a place of danger
Perilous - full of danger or risk
Mediterranean - the sea surrounded by southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia
Shore - the land along the edge of a sea
War-devastated - destroyed by war
Prosperous - wealthy
Shattered - broken into very small pieces / very upset
Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
Wall something off - to build a wall around a place
Combative - ready to fight / argue
Intruders - someone who enters a place without permission in order to commit a crime
Ethical - relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong
Destabilised - to make a government lose power or control
Waging - to carry on something
Invasion - the process of an army or country using force to enter and take control of another country
Chaos - complete disorder and confusion
Turn your back on someone/something - to ignore someone / something by turning away from them