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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated June 8th 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials.
Topic 1 : "States of the Congress"
Topic 2 : "A cautionary note"
- Ordinarily - in a normal way
- Mild - not so serious (gentle and calm)
- Flutter - slightly uncomfortable
- Reputation - the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something
- Under a cloud - to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad
- Declined - decreased (became smaller)
- Meanwhile - while something else is happening
- Frittered - to waste money, time, or something
- Inordinate - much more than usual or expected
- Defend - to protect someone against attack or criticism
- String - series (a set of objects joined together)
- Controversy - a lot of disagreement or argument about something
- Regeneration - to improve a place or system, especially by making it more active or successful
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Defection - the act of leaving a country, political party, etc. to go to another one
- Entrenched - strongly established and difficult to change
- Embed - attach to a group / party
- Hasten - be quick to do something
- Succession - a process in which someone automatically takes an official position or job after someone else
- Grapples - to fight, especially in order to win something
- Peculiar - strange
- Rectifying - correcting
- Accountability - responsibility
- Coherence - the situation when the parts of something fit together (logical interconnection)
- Reassessing - to think again about something
- Periodic - happening repeatedly over a period of time
- Unsolicited - not asked for
- Empower - give (someone) the authority or power to do something
- Freer hand - a hand that make you free
- Borne - carried or moved by a particular thing
- Cedes - give up power / authority
- Turfed - force (someone) to leave somewhere
- Obligation - something that you must do
- Conglomerate - consisting a number of different parts that are grouped together
- Satraps - local rulers
- Connect the dots - bringing together information from different places
- Align - arrange
- Reform - make changes in something, in order to improve it
Topic 2 : "A cautionary note"
- Cautionary - serving as a warning
- Opted for something - chose something
- Citing - refer to something
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known
- Trajectory - the path followed by an object
- Inflation - continuous increase in prices
- Bias - the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way
- Accommodative - willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement
- Monetary policy - actions taken by a government to control the amount of money in an economy and how easily available it is (for example by changing the interest rate)
- On the table - being discussed or considered
- Various - many different
- Domestic - relating to a person's own country
- Pan out - to develop in a particular way
- Watchfulness - paying careful attention and ready to deal with problems
- Notwithstanding - although / in spite of something
- Prospect - the possibility of some future event occurring
- Disinflationary - a situation in which a country's prices go down, or do not go up as quickly as before
- Rapid - happening in a short time or at a great rate
- Acceleration - increase in speed or rate
- Pulses - seeds such as beans or peas that are cooked and eaten
- Edible - suitable or safe for eating
- Commodities - raw materials or primary agricultural products that can be bought and sold
- Crude oil - oil from underground that has not yet been made into other products
- Impact - effect or influence
- Marginally - very small in amount (slightly)
- Decline - decrease
- Elephant in the room - if you say there is an elephant in the room, you mean that there is a problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about
- Anticipated - expected / predicted
- Extent - the degree to which something happens or is likely to happen
- Fan - to encourage bad emotions or behaviour to get worse
- Payout - a large amount of money that is paid to someone
- Ultimately - finally / in the end
- Sustaining - strengthening or supporting
- Momentum - the force that keeps an object moving or keeps an event developing after it has started
- Uneven - not regular / equal
- Traction - the fact of an idea, product, etc. becoming popular or being accepted
- Floundering - to experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do next
- Weighed down - to make somebody feel worried and unhappy because of problems, responsibilities, and duties
- Slowdown - a decline in economic activity
- Turmoil - a state of great disturbance, confusion
- Adequate - satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity
- Weather - to deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem
- Volatility - sudden change
- Emerge - to appear by coming out of something
- Green shoots - signs of growth or renewal (especially of economic recovery)
- Cargo - goods carried on a ship
- Upturn - an improvement or a change to a higher level or value (especially in economics)
- Trigger - to cause something to start
- Revival - an improvement in the condition
- Hinge - attach or join
- Bolster - support or strengthen
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