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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 2nd June 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials.
Topic 1 : "Shell shock at Pulgaon"
Topic 2 : "The challenge of sustaining growth"
- Shell shock - mental illness caused by experiences of war
- Ammunition - bullets and bombs
- High toll - huge suffering, deaths, or damage
- Dump - a place where things of a particular type are stored, especially by an army
- Appraisal - to examine something in order to judge
- Inventory - a detailed list of all the things in a place
- Eventually - in the end (after a long delay)
- Evacuated - to remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place
- Impact - effect or influence
- Debris - broken or torn pieces of something larger
- Scattered - throw in various random directions (due to explosion)
- Depot - a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment
- Virtually - nearly / almost
- Feeding - supplying with material or power
- Setback - something that happens that prevents a process from developing
- Brass - complete confidence and lack of fear
- Intense - of extreme force, degree, or strength
- Audit - an official inspection of an organization's accounts
- Procuring - to get something, especially after an effort
- Concern - a worried or nervous feeling about something
- Violation - an action that acts against something (especially a law, agreement, principle)
- Prescribed - set by a rule or order
- Disposal - the act of getting rid of something
- Tarpaulin - waterproof cloth used as a covering
- Tragedy - a very sad event or situation (especially one involving death or suffering)
- Slightest - very small in amount
- Lapse - a temporary failure
- Devastating - highly destructive or damaging
Topic 2 : "The challenge of sustaining growth"
- Sustaining - to continue for a period of time
- Statistics - a collection of numerical facts or measurements
- Sharp - happening suddenly, quickly, and strongly
- Acceleration - increase in speed or rate
- Downsized - to become smaller
- Preceding - come before (something) in time
- Significantly - in a way that is easy to see or by a large amount
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time / lengthy
- Widespread - existing or happening in many places
- Drought - a long period when there is no rain
- Dampened - to make something less strong
- Noteworthy - worth paying attention to
- Provisional - for the present time but likely to change
- Likely - probably
- Downward - towards a lower place or level
- In line with something - similar to something
- End up - to finally be in a particular place or situation
- Top of the heap - a position superior to everyone else (at the highest point)
- Fiscal - relating to government revenue
- Robust - strong
- Expenditure - the action of spending funds
- Perspective - a particular way of considering something
- Paint a more modest picture - to show / describe something in a small size / amount
- Barely - only just
- Nudging - to push something up gently
- Projection - an estimation or guess about the future based on information that you have
- Significant - sufficiently great / noteworthy
- Strips - removes something
- Thus - as a result of this / therefore
- Contraction - the process of becoming smaller
- Inflate - increase something by a large or excessive amount
- Hinge - dependent on something
- Monsoon - the season of heavy rain
- Flooding - a situation in which an area is covered with water, especially from rain
- Harvest - the time of year when crops are cut and collected from the fields
- Fillip - something that causes a sudden improvement
- Revival - an improvement in the condition
- Onus - something that is one's duty or responsibility
- Stimulus - something that causes growth or activity
- Squarely - directly
- Outlay - an amount of money spent on something
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known
- Opts to - make a choice from a range of possibilities
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