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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 17th June 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials.
Topic 1 : "Nervous takeoff"
Topic 2 : "Merger makes waves, again"
Topic 1 : "Nervous takeoff"
- Nervous - worried and anxious
- Takeoff - if an aircraft, bird, or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly
- Aviation - the activity of flying aircraft, or of designing, producing, and keeping them in good condition
- Unveiled - show or announce publicly for the first time
- Ado - trouble or difficulty
- Ticks all the right boxes - fulfils all the necessary requirements
- Intent - intention or purpose
- Fast-track - the quickest route to a successful position
- Harvest - the process or period of getting results of your work
- Spurring - to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster
- Reviving - giving new strength or energy to
- Defunct - no longer existing, living, or working correctly
- No-frills - no extra or unnecessary details
- Ambitious - having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed
- Reform - make changes in something, in order to improve it
- De-politicisation - to cause something or someone to have no political connections
- Ought to - have to
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Gesture - an action that expresses your feelings or intentions
- Hinterland - a part of the country that is far away from the big city areas
- Demand-driven - operated, moved, or controlled by demand
- Subsidising - to pay part of the cost of something
- Peril - serious and immediate danger
- Swing - to change
- Dole - the money that the government gives to people who are unemployed
- Levy - impose (a tax, fee, or fine)
- Regime - a particular way of operating or organizing a business
- Hesitate - to pause before you do something
- Liberalising - remove or loosen restrictions on something
- Scrapping - removing from service
- Manoeuvre - a movement or set of movements needing skill and care
- Feasible - able to be made, done, or achieved
- Overseas - related to other countries
- Unused - to not be familiar with a particular habit or experience
- Hinge - attach or join with
- Sop - something of little importance or value that is offered to stop complaints or unhappiness
- Tariff - a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
- Trajectory - the curved path that an object follows after it has been thrown or shot into the air
- Determine - to control or influence something directly
Topic 2 : "Merger makes waves, again"
- Merger - an occasion when two or more things join together to make one larger thing
- Make waves - to cause difficulty
- Massive - large and heavy
- Black hole - a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape
- Mass - the amount of matter in any solid object or in any volume of liquid or gas
- Lasted - continued for a specified period of time
- Radiated - emited (energy, especially light or heat) in the form of rays or waves.
- Hence - as a consequence; for this reason
- Tease out something - to try to get information or understand a meaning that is hidden or not clear
- Seminal - strongly influencing later developments
- Witness - to see something happen
- Precision - the quality of being exact
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