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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated May 24th 2016. Happy reading :)
- Thrown - to send suddenly into a particular state or condition
- Insurgency - an occasion when a group of people attempt to take control of their country by force:
- Crisis - a time of great difficulty or danger
- Command - control over something and responsibility for it
- Chaotic - in a state of complete confusion and disorder
- Capture - take control over some place by force
- Territory - an area of land that is considered as belonging to a particular country or person
- Troops - soldiers on duty in a large group
- Thwarted - to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
- Unify - to bring together / combine
- Bloodshed - killing and violence
- Drone - a type of aircraft that does not have a pilot but is controlled by someone on the ground
- Strike - a sudden attack, typically a military one
- Province - an area that is governed as part of a country or an empire
- Battleground - a place where a battle is being fought
- Cohesive - the situation when the members of a group or society are united
- Predecessor - someone who had a job or a position before someone else
- Breakaway - an act of separating from a group, especially because of disagreement
- Faction - a group within a larger group, especially one with slightly different ideas from the main group
- Successor - someone that comes after another person
- Resistance - the refusal to accept something
- Persuade - cause (someone) to believe something / convince
- Stage - to organize an event
- Circumstances - events that change your life, over which you have no control
- Restive - unwilling to be controlled
- State-of-play - the way in which something is happening or developing
- Negotiation - discussion aimed at reaching an agreement
- Hard-nosed - practical and determined / tough-minded
- Unleash - to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled
- Eventually - in the end
- Prompting - the act of encouraging someone to do something
- Press ahead - to start or continue doing something in a serious way, although it is difficult
- Complacent - feeling so satisfied with your own abilities or situation that you feel you do not need to try any harder
- Definite - clearly true or real
- Giant - of very great size or force
- Peer - someone at your own level
- Wares - articles offered for sale
- Barely - only just
- Heady - having a powerful effect
- Critics - someone who says that they do not approve of someone or something
- Innovations - the use of a new idea or method
- Slowdown - a decline in economic activity
- Premium - used to refer to something that is of higher than usual quality
- Maverick - a person who thinks and acts in an independent way, often behaving differently from the expected or usual way
- Stake - a share or a financial involvement in a business
- Citing - referring
- Concerns - worries
- Nurture - to take care of and protect something
- Ticked all the boxes - to fulfill all the requirements
- Calling on somebody - to ask someone in a formal way to do something
- Poised - ready to do a particular thing at any moment
- Price-sensitive - a price-sensitive product is one whose sales are influenced by price rather than quality
- Immense - extremely large or great
- Potential - having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future
- Pre-owned - previously owned by someone else
- Overruled - rejected
- Elusive - difficult to describe, find, achieve, or remember
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