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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated April 21st 2016. Happy reading :)
Topic 1 : "Rollback redux"
Topic 2 : "Frontrunners seize the day"
- Rollback - reduction / withdraw something
- Redux - brought back
- Backed off - to stop being involved in a situation
- Enforce - to make people obey a law / to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
- Provident fund - an amount of money consisting of regular payments by an employee and an employer over a period of time that the employee receives when they leave a company or retire
- Backtracked - to go back
- U-turn - a complete change of plan to opposite one
- Implication - the effect that an action or decision will have on something else in the future
- Forfeit - to lose something
- Provision - the action of providing or supplying something for use
- Accumulation - an amount of something that has been collected
- Backlash - a strong negative reaction by a large number of people
- Notified - informed in formal / official manner
- Murmurs - complaints that are expressed privately
- Discontent - dissatisfaction
- Violent - used to describe a situation or event in which people are hurt or killed
- Protest - an action expressing disapproval of or objection to something
- Deferral - delay
- Scrapped - discarded or removed
- Ceding - give up something
- Vulnerable - exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed
- Take something for granted - to never think about something because you believe it will always be available or stay exactly the same
- Desperation - the feeling of needing or wanting something very much
- Rationale - the reasons that cause a particular set of actions
- Fritter away something - to waste something
- Undergone - experienced something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change
- Paradigm shift - a time when the usual way of doing something changes completely
- Contractualisation - replacing of regular workers with temporary workers who receive lower wages with no or less benefits
- Tenure - the right to remain permanently in a job
- Nudge - to push (to make people doing something)
- Persist - to continue in an opinion even though there is difficulty or opposition
- Micromanaging - to control every part of something
- Redoubling - make something much greater
Topic 2 : "Frontrunners seize the day"
- Frontrunners - people who are most likely to win something
- Seize - to take something quickly and keep or hold it
- Yielded - produce / provide
- Bounties - a sum paid by the state to encourage trade
- Delegates - a person sent or authorized to represent others
- Garnered - gathered or collected
- Consolidated - to become stronger
- Rivals - people competing with others for the same thing
- Convention - a large formal meeting of a political party
- Respectively - in the same order as first mentioned
- Sprinted - run at full speed over a short distance
- Scooped up something - to lift something in a quick movement
- Caucus - a meeting of a small group of people in a political party
- Prospect - the possibility of some future event occurring
- Surge - to move suddenly and powerfully forward or upward
- Offset - to balance one influence against an opposing influence, so that there is no great difference as a result
- Overwhelming - very great in amount
- Darling - a person who is very much loved or liked
- Mainstream - the ideas / beliefs shared by most people
- Maverick - a person who thinks and acts in an independent way
- Plinth - base
- Rugged - strong and simple
- Individualism - the habit of being independent
- Unbridled - uncontrolled
- Instinctively - a behaviour which is not thought about, planned, or developed by training
- Veer - to change direction suddenly'
- Potential - possible when the necessary conditions exist
- Chaotic - in a state of complete confusion and disorder
- Engender - to cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)
- Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
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