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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated April 20th 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the Topic Titles to read the Editorials
Topic 1 : "Of populism and prohibition"
Topic 2 : "Deepening crisis in Brazil"
- Populism - political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people by giving them what they want
- Prohibition - the act of officially not allowing something
- Embarked - to begin an action
- Gradually - slowly over a long period of time
- Initiated - to cause something to begin
- Brew - to make beer
- Panic - sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety
- Grips - have a strong or serious effect on something
- Unanimous - fully in agreement
- Resolution - an official decision that is made
- Countered - to react to something with an opposing opinion or action
- Pledge - a serious or formal promise
- Affirming - to publicly show your support for an opinion or idea
- Grappled - to fight (especially in order to win something)
- Consequence - a result or effect
- Indebtedness - owing money to someone
- Domestic violence - the situation in which someone you live with (husband / wife / father) attacks you and tries to hurt you
- Vestige - a small part or amount of something larger
- Regime - a system or ordered way of doing things
- Abandoned - left
- Spate - a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time
- Sustain - to cause or allow something to continue for a period of time
- Creep - to move slowly, quietly, and carefully in order to avoid being noticed
- Nanny state - a government that tries to give too much advice or make too many laws about how people should live their lives, especially about eating, smoking, or drinking alcohol
- Overhang - to have a negative effect on a situation
- Inhibits - prevents
- Shedding - getting rid of something / leaving
- Hypocrisy - a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really believe
- Advocacy - public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy
- Pragmatic - solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules
- Consumption - the act of using, eating, or drinking something
- Disastrous - causing great damage
- Consequences - results / effects
- Bootlegging - making / selling something illegally
- Spurious - fake
- Complicit - involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong
- Deprives - prevents from having or using something
- For instance - for example
- Excise - a tax made by a government on some types of goods produced and used within their own country
- Splurge - an act of spending money freely
- Pioneering - involving new ideas or methods
- Virtuous - having good moral qualities and behaviour
Topic 2 : "Deepening crisis in Brazil"
- Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
- Impeachment - the process of saying that a public official is guilty of a serious crime in connection with their job
- Proceedings - a series of events that happen in a planned and controlled way
- Inflicting - causing to be suffered by someone or something
- Embattled - involved in or prepared for war
- Eroded - slowly destroyed
- Scandal - an action which is morally or legally wrong and causes public shock
- Implicated - to show someone was involved in a crime
- Backfired - to have the opposite result from the one you planned / expected
- Allies - supporters
- Rivals - opponents
- Polarise - to divide something into two completely opposing groups
- Engulfed - to powerfully affect (someone)
- Consecutive - continuous
- Stalled - stopped making progress
- Recession - a period when the economy of a country is not successful and conditions for business are bad
- Slash - to cut / reduce something
- Rein - to control
- Alienated - to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Interminable - continuing for too long (endless)
- Manipulated - handled or controlled something in a skilful manner
- Ironically - in a way that is different or opposite from the result you would expect
- Vital - extremely important / essential
- Fudging - to adjust / change something to get required results
- Machiavellian - cunning
- Coup - a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power
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