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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 22nd March 2016. Happy Reading :)
Topic 1 : "Wise counsel needed in Uttarakhand"
- Counsel - advice
- Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
- Inevitably - unavoidably
- Delegations - a group of representatives
- Dismissal - the act of ordering someone to leave
- Majority - the difference in the number of votes between the winning person or group and the one that comes second
- Rebel - a person who rises in opposition against an established government or leader
- Unconstitutional - not allowed by the constitution (set of rules for government) of a country or organization
- Apprehensions - anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen
- Imposing - to force someone to accept something (law)
- Meanwhile - while something else is happening
- Expelled - to officially make someone leave an organization
- Revolt - take violent action against an established government (because they refuse to be controlled or ruled)
- Loyalists - strong supporters
- Portfolio - a particular job of a member of a government (his area of responsibility)
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known
- Grass-roots level - basic level
- Genuine - sincere (truly what something is said to be)
- Responsive - reacting quickly and positively
- Contrast - difference
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose
- Constituency - a group of voters in a specified area
- Stints - a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity
- Rivalry - a situation in which people compete with each other for the same thing
- Spilled over - to continue for a longer time than expected
- Outright - completely or immediately
- Front runner - the person that is most likely to win something
- Perceived - become aware or conscious of (something) / come to realize or understand
- Ambit - the range or limits of the influence of something
- Nastily - unpleasantly
- Propriety - correct moral behaviour or actions
- Sanctity - the quality of being very important
- Extraneously - coming from outside
- Lax - not sufficiently strict / careful
- Pivotal - important
- Diplomacy - the management of relationships between countries
- Various - different
- Revolution - a change in the way a country is governed (using violence or war)
- Criticism - the act of saying that something or someone is bad
- Beyond - outside of a stated limit
- Bitter foes - enemies
- Hostile - unfriendly
- Collapse - sudden failure of something
- Counterpart - a person or thing that has the same purpose / job as you
- Rapprochement - an agreement reached by opposing groups or people
- Reciprocated - to behave in the same way as someone else
- Embassy - the office of the people who represent their country in a foreign country
- Culmination - the highest or climactic point of something (after a long time)
- Animosity - strong dislike / opposition / anger
- Clinging - to stick to something (to hold something tightly)
- Stood tall - to be brave and proud
- Disintegration - the process of losing strength (to become weaker)
- Aid - help
- Blunted - weak
- Overture - a communication made to someone in order to offer something
- Imperative - an essential or urgent thing
- Grievance - a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly / wrongly
- Embargo - an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
- Dissident - a person who publicly disagrees with and criticizes their government
- Sanction - an official order (such as the stopping of trade) that is taken against a country
- Congressional - belonging or related to the US Congress
- Radical - believing that there should be great social or political change
- Overhaul - to improve something to make it work better
- Monopoly - to have complete control of something (so that others have no share)
- Cloud the Significance - to reduce the importance of something
- Breakthrough - a sudden development
- Momentum - the force that helps something to move / develop
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