English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 21st June 2016

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Hai  Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 21st June  2016. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials. 

Topic 1 : "The Centre’s big reform push"

• Reform - make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it
• Acknowledged - recognized as being good or important
• Edging up - going up in a list
• Ease - to make or become less serious, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc
• Time is ripe - correct time to do something
• Open the door to something - to make something possible / to allow something new to start
• Diluting - making something weaker
• Precondition - a condition that must be fulfilled before other things can happen or be done
• Norms - an accepted standard or a way of doing something
• Stickier - difficult to deal with
  
• Resilient - able to quickly return to a previous good condition
• Mercurial - changing suddenly and often
• Appetite - a strong desire or liking for something
• Fiscal - relating to government revenue, especially taxes
• Constraint - a limitation or restriction
• Purring - making a soft vibrant sound
• Evident - clearly seen or understood
• Surge - a sudden powerful forward or upward movement
• Merely - just / only
• Liberal - respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour
• Queuing up - a group of people eagerly waiting to do something
• Domestic - related to one's own country
• Booming - having a period of rapid increase in something good
• Pharmaceutical - relating to the production of medicines
• Bailout - an act of giving financial assistance to a failing business or economy to save it from collapse
• Firm - a company or business
• Entail - to make something necessary, or to involve something
• Barriers - limitations
• Deter - to prevent someone from doing something
• Watering down - to make something less serious / stronger than it was
• Stymied - to prevent something from happening or someone from achieving a purpose
• Disputing - arguing
• Irrespective of something - not taking (something) into account / regardless of something
• Devil is usually in the detail - * used for saying that "something may seem simple, but in fact the details are complicated and likely to cause problems"

Topic 2 : "Olympics in the time of Zika"

• Zika - a virus carried by mosquitoes that may be connected with birth defects such as microcephaly ( having an abnormally small head), if a pregnant woman is infected
• Notwithstanding - although / in spite of
• Convened - assembled / to bring together a group of people
• Consequence - an unpleasant result or effect 
• Intensive - involving a lot of effort or activity in a short period of time
• Amplified - to increase the size or effect of something
• Onus - something that is one's duty or responsibility
• Ensure - to make sure that something is going to happen
• Intensified - to become greater, more serious, or more extreme
• Surveillance - close observation
• Enhanced - increased / improved
• Vector-control measures - methods to limit or destroy insects (mosquitoes)
• Precautionary measures - actions that re done to prevent something unpleasant or dangerous happening
• Needlestick - an accidental puncture of the skin with an unsterilized instrument
• Infectious - likely to spread or influence others in a rapid manner
• Foetus - a young human being before birth, after the organs have started to develop
• Saliva - the liquid produced in your mouth to keep the mouth wet and to help to prepare food to be digested
• Semen - the male reproductive fluid
• Viral - relating to virus
• Onset - the beginning of something, especially something unpleasant
• Symptom - any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease
• Abstinence - not doing something (especially drinking alcohol or having sex)
• Strategy - a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
• Evolving - developing slowly (step by step)
• Caution - care taken to avoid dangers
• Prevalent - existing very commonly or happening often
• Endemic - regularly found and very common among a particular group or in a particular area (especially of a disease)

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