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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 18th February 2016. Happy Reading :)
Topic 1 : "Right step on savings schemes"
- Tenure - period of time
- Countless - too many to be counted
- Retired - to leave your job or stop working because of old age or ill health
- Risk-free - does not involve any risk
- Parking - leave (something) in a convenient place until required
- Hard-earned - achieved only after a lot of effort
- Returns - profit from an investment
- Pare - to reduce something
- Vis-à-vis - in relation to
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- Core - most important part of something
- Constituency - the people who live and can vote in a particular area
- Emerging - starting to exist
- Partially - only in part; to a limited extent
- Transmitted - to pass something from one person or place to another
- Borrow - to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent
- Peculiar - unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way
- Predicament - a difficult, unpleasant or embrassing situation
- On the mat - being formally disapproved by someone in authority
- Encounter - to face something unexpectedly
- Set the stage for something - prepare the conditions for something
- Regime - a system or ordered way of doing things
- Perspective - a particular way of considering something (point of view)
- Roadblock - something that stops progress
- Eventually - in the end
- Distort - to change something from its usual, original, natural condition
- Impact - influence
- Inevitable - something that is sure to happen and cannot be prevented
Topic 2 : "J&K needs a government"
- Discontent - a feeling of wanting an improved situation (dissatisfied)
- Mounting - slowly increasing
- Patriarch - head
- Spike - to rise to a higher amount
- Fragile - damaged
- Downturn - a reduction in something
- Crossfire - gunfire from two or more directions
- Pelted - to throw a number of things quickly at someone
- Impervious to something - not influenced or affected by something
- Melee - a large noisy uncontrolled crowd
- Sedition - speech that is intended to influence other people to oppose their government
- Acquit - free someone from a criminal charge
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known
- Voiced - expressed
- Concern - a worried or nervous feeling about something
- Striking - attracting attention for unusual reasons
- Revive - restore to life
- Alliance - a union or association formed for mutual benefit
- Disaffection - feeling of being dissatisfied (especially with people in authority or a system of control)
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties for a particular purpose (for a limited time)
- Definitively - clearly
- Dissolving - close down or dismiss (an assembly or official body)
- Advancing - coming
- Framework - a system of rules, ideas that is used to plan or decide something
- Agenda - a list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Unease - a feeling of being worried about something
- Fallout - unfavourable / harmful results of a situation or action.
- Cast a shadow on something - to spoil a good situation with something unpleasant
- At stake - at risk
- Gave situation - seriously bad situation
- Interregnum - a period when a country or organization does not have a leader
- Negotiating - to deal with something difficult
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