English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 12th July 2016

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Hai  Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 12th July 2016. Happy reading :)

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Topic 1 : "Calming the Valley"

• Valley - an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river running through it
• Commander - a person in authority, especially over a body of troops or a military operation
• Gunned somebody down - to shoot someone and kill or seriously injure them
• Mobilising - to  prepare and organize group of people for a purpose
• Disaffected - dissatisfied
• Aftermath - the period that follows an unpleasant event or accident, and the effects that it causes
• Pitched battles - a large fight in which both sides stay in the same place
• Engulfed - to surround and cover something or someone completely
• Legend - someone very famous and admired, usually because of their ability in a particular area
• Coasted - move easily without using power
  
• Poster boy - famous person
• Homegrown - if something is homegrown, it belongs to or was developed in your own country
• Spectacularly - extremely
• Stone-pelting - to throw number of stones quickly at someone
• Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
• Paramilitary - paramilitary group is organized like an army but is not official and often not legal
• Evolved - develop gradually
• Lethal - very harmful or destructive (sufficient to cause death)
• Injured - hurt or physically harmed
• Casualties - people killed or injured in a war or accident
• Perceive - become aware or conscious of something / come to realize or understand
• Siege - the surrounding of a place by an armed force in order to defeat those defending it
• Imperative - crucial (very important)
• Disproportionate - too large or too small in comparison with something else
• Fuelling - to increase / make something stronger
• Impressionable - easily influenced
• Aggrieved - unhappy and angry because of unfair treatment
• Brute force - very strong or forceful / very harsh
• Dissuade - to convince someone not to do something
• Demonstrable - able to be proved
• Mourning - the expression of sorrow for someone's death
• Fallen - killed
• Spectrum - wide range
• Dispersed - distribute or spread over a wide area
• Pellets- bullets
• Mainstream - the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal
• Countered - speak or act in opposition to
• Fleshed out something - to add more details or information to something
• Eventually - in the end
• Illusion - a false idea or belief
• Restive - unwilling to be controlled or be patient
• Funeral - a religious ceremony for burying or burning the body of a dead person
• Mourners -  people who are very sad about somebody's death

Topic 2 : "Tournament of the underdog"

• Tournament - a competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left
• Underdog - in a competition, the person or team considered to be the weakest and the least likely to win
• Knockout - a competition in which only the winners of each stage play in the next stage, until one competitor or team is the final winner
• Triumph - a great victory or achievement
• Possess -  to have or own something / to have a particular quality
• Resolve - strong determination
• Second to none - the best (as good as or better than all others)
• Dour - unhappy and very serious
• Denying - sto say that something is not true
• By the skin of your teeth - if you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it
• Undeniably - certainly true
• Sobbing - cry noisly
• Cement - to make something stronger
• Legacy - something that is a part of your history or that remains from an earlier time
• Soul-crushing - causing a person to lose confidence, hope, and energy; discouraging
• Heal - if a bad situation or painful emotion heals, it ends or improves, and if something heals it, it makes it end or improve
• Wounds - a problem or great unhappiness
• Hauntingly - in a way that cannot be forgotten
• Arena - a large, flat area surrounded by seats used for sports or entertainment
• Poignant - causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness
• Detract from something - to make something seem less valuable or less deserving of admiration than it really is
• En route - on the way
• Massacre - an act of killing a lot of people
• Passionate - having very strong feelings or emotions
• Fervid - having or showing feelings that are very strong

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