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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 26th November 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Appointing a Lokpal"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The gathering crisis in Seoul"
- Lokpal - (caretaker of people in Sanskrit) He is an anti-corruption authority who represents the public interest
- Admonishing - to tell someone that they have done something wrong
- Cleanse - to make something completely clean
- Relevant - connected with what is happening or being discussed
- Minor - very small / having little importance
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Enable - to make something possible
- Endorsed - to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone
- Vigilance - the activity of watching a person or situation very carefully so that you will notice any problems or signs of danger immediately
- Inoperative - not having effect or power,
- Indefinitely - for a period of time with no fixed end
- Evoking - to make someone remember something or feel an emotion
- Apprehension - a feeling of worry or fear that something bad might happen
- Amendment - a change to a law that is not yet in operation and is still being discussed
- Promulgated - to spread beliefs or ideas among a lot of people
- Re-examine - to look at something in detail again
- Panel - a small group of people chosen to give advice, make a decision, or publicly discuss their opinions as entertainment
- Ombudsman - someone who works for a government or large organization and deals with the complaints made against it
- Comprising - to form something
- Eminent - famous, respected, or important
- Hitch - a temporary difficulty that causes a short delay
- Provision - a statement within an agreement or a law that a particular thing must happen or be done
- Concerning - about
- Office-holder - someone who has an important official position in an organization or in the government
- Expedite - to make something happen more quickly
- Magnanimity - to forgive people / willing to be kind and fair
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The gathering crisis in Seoul"
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Taking to the streets - when people take to the streets, they express their opposition to something in public and often violently
- Exploded - to break up into pieces violently
- Aide - a person whose job is to help someone important, such as a member of a government or a military officer of high rank
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Covertly - secretly, or in a hidden way
- Extorted - to illegally get money or information from someone by using force
- Giant - a very large and successful company
- Conglomerates - a large business organization formed when several different businesses join together
- Chaebols - one of the several large, powerful groups of companies in South Korea that are involved in various different types of business
- Charitable - intended to help people who are poor or ill
- Stood her ground - to continue in her beliefs in an argument
- Clung on to something - to try very hard to keep something
- Presidency - the job of being president, or the period when someone is a president
- Sacked - to remove someone from their job
- Regain - to get something again that you lost
- Mounting - gradually increasing
- Impeaching - to make a formal statement saying that a public official is guilty of a serious offence in connection with their job
- Breach - an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship
- Constitution - the set of political principles by which a state or organization is governed
- Backing - support
- Unravelling - destroying
- Macroeconomic - the study of financial systems at a national level
- Paradigm - a model of something, or a very clear and typical example of something
- Under a cloud - not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad
- Hard-fought - achieved after a lot of difficulty or fighting
- Revitalisation - the process of making something grow, develop, or become successful again
- Sustainable - able to continue over a period of time
- Immense - extremely large in size or degree
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Hostile - unfriendly and not liking something
- Prospect - the possibility that something good might happen in the future
- Deploying - to move soldiers or equipment to a place where they can be used when they are needed
- Rhetoric - clever language that sounds good but is not sincere or has no real meaning
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders
- Ally - a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war
- Turmoil - a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder
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