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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 5th October 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials.
Topic 1 : "Bolstering growth amid risks"
Topic 2 : "Clinching the N-deal with Japan"
- Bolstering - to support or improve something or make it stronger
- Amid - surrounded by; in the middle of
- Monetary - relating to a country’s money and to the systems that a country uses for controlling its money supply
- Maiden - first
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Extent - the size and importance of a problem or situation
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Articulating - to express thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively
- Constitute - to form or make something
- Rationale - the set of reasons that something such as a plan or belief is based on
- Bleake - if a situation is bleak, there is little or no hope for the future
- Anticipate - to think that something will probably happen
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Downgrade - to reduce something to a lower rank or position
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Opt - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Primacy - the state of being the most important thing
- Lucidity - the way something clearly expressed and easy to understand
- Hit the ground running - to immediately work hard and successfully at a new activity
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Volatility - a situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Stimulus - something that causes growth or activity
- Warranted - to make a particular activity necessary
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- Sowing - to cause a bad emotion or condition to begin somewhere so that it will grow or continue
- Cautious - careful to avoid problems or danger
- Flagging - marking for attention or treatment in a specified way
- Trajectory - the way in which a process or event develops over a period of time
- Panel - a group of people who make decisions or judgments
- Furthering - to help the progress of something so that it is more likely to be successful
- Spillover - the effects of an activity that have spread further than was originally intended
- Augur - to be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future
- Offset - to balance the effect of something
- Decisive - able to make decisions quickly and confidently
- Deliberation - long and careful thought or discussion
- Weather - to deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem
- Harsher - unpleasant and difficult to deal with
- Emerge - to become known
Topic 2 : "Clinching the N-deal with Japan"
- Clinching - to get or win something
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or suffered as the result of a crime
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders
- Non-Proliferation - a policy of preventing any increase in the number of chemical weapons that countries have
- Hardened - became harder
- Convey - to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
- Multilateral - involving more than two groups or countries
- Knocking at somebody's door - to ask somebody's permission to join with them
- Reform - to make an improvement
- Cutting-edge - extremely modern and advanced
- Actualise - to make something happen / to achieve something
- Contingent - a group of people representing an organization or country, or a part of a military force
- Baffling - impossible to understand
- Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
- Sticking point - a sticking point in a discussion is a point on which it is not possible to reach an agreement
- Haste - great speed in doing something because of limited time
- Adhere - believe in and follow
- Moratorium - an official agreement to stop an activity temporarily
- Insistence - a very strong statement that something must happen or that something is true
- Nullification - the act of cancelling something
- Generous - showing a readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is strictly necessary or expected.
- Liability - legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something
- Enormous - very large in size or quantity
- The devil is in the detail - used for saying that something may seem simple, but in fact the details are complicated and likely to cause problems
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