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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 7th October 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials.
Topic 1 : "Chief Minister in a hurry"
Topic 2 : "Stamping down on prejudice"
- Leave no stone unturned - to do everything possible to solve a problem or to find something out
- Prohibition - the action of officially preventing something from being done
- Legislative - relating to laws or to the process of creating new laws
- Striking a blow - to do something that harms something severely
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Notified - to inform someone officially about something
- Prohibition - a law or rule that stops people from doing something
- Excise - a tax that a government charges on services used and goods sold inside its country
- Haste - great speed in doing something because of limited time
- Throws some light on something - something that throws light on a situation provides an explanation for it or information that makes it easier to understand
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Distinguishing - a distinguishing feature, mark etc makes something clearly different from other similar things
- Crowded - containing a lot of people
- Campaign - work in an organized and active way towards a goal.
- Outreach - an effort to bring services or information to people where they live or spend time
- Aura - quality
- No-holds-barred - without any limit on what you are allowed to do
- Ally - someone who helps and supports you (friend)
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
- Potent - powerful, or effective
- Empathetic - able to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- Dignified - having or showing a composed or serious manner that is worthy of respect
- Empowered - stronger and more confident
- Allied - connected by a political or military agreement
- Plank - something that is important to the success or failure of something
- Overtone - a quality or feature that is noticeable but not obvious
- Arrogate - to take power that is not legally yours
- Mantle - the authority or responsibility connected with someone’s position, duties, or beliefs
- Campaigner - a person who takes part in organized activities that are intended to change something in society
- Set someone apart - to make someone or something different and special
- Emitting - sending
- Briefly - for a short time
- Overcome - to succeed in dealing with or controlling a problem
- Underlined - to show clearly that something is important or true
- Assertiveness - the quality of behaving in a confident way in which you are quick to express your opinions and feelings
- Outline - to give the main ideas of a plan or a piece of writing without giving all the details
- Deployment - if a government or army deploys soldiers or police, it uses them
- Mindful - careful about or conscious of something
- Policing - the control of an area or a problem by police
- Alienate - to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Footprint - the amount of space on a surface that something needs
Topic 2 : "Stamping down on prejudice"
- Stamping down - to put down by force or authority
- Prejudice - an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Prevention - to stop something from happening
- Provision - a part of an agreement or law that deals with a particular problem
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Constraint - something that limits your freedom to do what you want
- Underfunded - does not have enough money to run properly
- Monitoring - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
- Ensuring - to make sure that something is happening
- Acquiring - to get a disease, illness, or infection
- Hinges - depends
- Inquiry - an official examination of a problem in order to get information or the truth
- Ombudsmen - someone whose job is to deal with complaints that people make about an organization or particular type of business
- Intended - aimed
- Antiretroviral - antiretroviral drugs are used to treat certain types of virus, especially HIV (the virus that causes AIDS)
- Diagnosis - a statement about what disease someone has, based on examining them
- Address - to try to deal with a problem
- Redress - to fix a problem and make changes
- Funding - money that a government or organization provides for a specific purpose
- Come up with something - to think of something such as an idea or a plan
- Ensure - to make sure that something happens or is done
- Prospective - likely or expected to happen
- Confidentiality - a situation in which important information must be kept secret
- Enforce = to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
- Breach - an act of breaking a law
- Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison (Jail)
- Actuarial calculations - the calculations to find various sorts of risk that insurance companies insure people against
- Initiative - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem
- Palpably - something you can easily see or understand
- Embrace - to completely accept something
- Decline - to gradually become less, worse, or lower
- Prevalence - very common in a particular place or among a particular group
- Antenatal - relating to the medical care of pregnant women, or to the time before a baby is born
- Get down to business - to start doing something that you need to do
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