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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"
Topic 2 : "Olympics in the time of Zika"
- 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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