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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 12th November 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Punjab’s legislative adventurism"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The Tower of Song"
- Adventurism - a way of managing a business, government, or the armed forces that is considered dangerous and might have negative results
- Legislative - relating to laws
- Enacting - to make a proposal into a law
- Terminate - to end or stop
- Survive - to continue to exist, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Reneged - to decide not to do something that you promised to do
- Solemn - involving serious behaviour or serious attitudes
- Obligation - something that you must do
- Decree - an official decision or order made by a leader or government
- Expeditiously - quickly and effectively
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Reiterating - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Finality - the fact or feeling that something has ended and has no possible future
- Validate - to officially prove that something is true or correct
- Illegalities - behaviour or actions that are illegal
- Federalism - the system of giving power to a central authority
- Usurp - to take a job or position that belongs to someone else without having the right to do this
- Nullifying - to make something lose its legal effect
- Rendered - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- Posturing - to do things only because you want people to notice you, admire you, or be afraid of you
- Tendency - a strong chance that something will happen in a particular way
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Zeal - great enthusiasm or eagerness
- Grievance - a complaint about being treated in an unfair way
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Litigation - the process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made
- Brokered - to arrange the details of a deal, plan etc so that everyone can agree to it
- Wriggle out of something - to avoid doing something by making excuses
- Backed - supported
- Aggrieved - feeling angry and unhappy because you think you have been treated in an unfair way
- Conciliation - a process that is intended to end an argument between two groups of people
- Unilaterally - done or decided by one country, group, or person, often without considering what other grous etc think or want
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The Tower of Song"
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge in court to a person or organization after they have been found guilty of doing something wrong
- Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison (jail)
- Fused - joined together
- Blended - mixed
- Sacred - connected with religion
- Profane - showing a lack of respect for God or religious objects, places, or beliefs
- Emerge - to become known
- Liturgical - involving or used in religious ceremonies
- Reference - used to describe books or places where you can find information
- Troubadour - a male poet and singer
- Render - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- Conversational - a conversational style of writing or speaking is informal, like a private conversation
- Brooding - making you feel as if something bad or dangerous is about to happen
- Arrestingly - attracting your attention
- Sensual - expressing or suggesting physical, especially sexual, pleasure or satisfaction
- Unlike - different from someone or something else
- Fade away - to disappear slowly
- Suffused - to spread over or through something
- Witty - clever and funny
- Self-deprecatory - showing that you think you are not very good or important
- Intimation - a suggestion or sign that something is likely to happen
- Mortality - death
- Verses - a group of words or sentences that form one section of a poem or song
- Deviating - to start doing something different from what is expected or agreed
- Divine - like a god, or relating to a god
- Wandered - to travel from place to place, especially on foot, without a particular direction or purpose
- Blurred - to (make something or someone) become difficult to see / understand clearly
- Rebellion - a refusal to obey your leader, especially in politics
- Morality - principles of right or wrong behaviour
- Leave-taking - a situation in which you say goodbye to someone
- Chords - musical notes
- Sparsely - small in numbers or amount
- Dejection - the feeling of unhappy, disappointed, or without hope
- Tinge - small amount of
- Befitted - to be suitable for someone or something
- Holocaust - a war in which very many ordinary people are killed
- Muse - to say something in a way that shows that you have been thinking carefully about it
- Overture - a suggestion or offer that you make to someone
- Realm - a particular area of knowledge, experience, interest etc
- Perfectionist - someone who always wants things to be done perfectly
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