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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 29th November 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Two-pronged war in Iraq"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Lessons from another jailbreak"
- Two-pronged - two sided
- Pilgrims - people who make a journey, to a special place for religious reasons
- Reinforces - to make something stronger
- Potent - very powerful, forceful, or effective
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Setback - something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
- Holiest place - very religious place
- Commemorate - to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event
- Martyrdom - an occasion when someone suffers or is killed because of their religious or political beliefs
- Troops - soldiers on duty in a large group
- Aided - helped or supported
- Massive - very large in size, amount, or number
- Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport, or the skill of planning for such situations
- Faraway - a long way away
- Needless to say - used for saying that something is already known or understood
- Pilgrimage - a journey that a religious person makes to a holy place
- Worrisome - causing you to feel worried
- Battlefield - a place where groups of people violently oppose each other
- Conventional - of the usual, traditional, or accepted type, instead of being new and different
- Unleashing - to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled
- Guerrilla - a member of an unofficial military group that is trying to change the government by making sudden, unexpected attacks on the official army forces
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Substantial - large in size, value, or importance
- Territorial - (an area of) land, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country
- Casualties - people injured or killed in a serious accident or war
- Exploiting - to use something in a way that helps you
- Feeble - weak and without energy, strength, or power
- Credibility - qualities that someone has that make people believe or trust them
- Sectarian - (a person) strongly supporting a particular religious group and not willing to accept other beliefs
- Accused - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Civilians - people who are not a member of the police or the armed forces
- War-ravaged - seriously damaged by a long war, especially between different groups from the same country
- Get a grip on something - to begin to understand a difficult situation and start to find a way of dealing with it
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Lessons from another jailbreak"
- Jailbreak - an escape from prison
- Daring - brave and taking risks
- Self-styled - given a name or title by yourself without any official reason for it
- Wake-up call - if something that happens is a wake-up call, it should make you realize that you need to take action to change a situation
- Prisoner - a person who is kept in jail as a punishment
- High-profile - attracting a lot of attention and interest from the public and newspapers, television, etc
- Executed - to do or perform something, especially in a planned way
- Aided - helped / supported
- Gunned down - to shoot someone and kill or seriously injure them
- Alleged - said or thought by some people to be the stated bad or illegal thing, although you have no proof
- Nabbed - to catch or arrest a criminal
- Mastermind - someone who plans a difficult or complicated operation, especially a crime
- Dreaded - frightening or worrying
- Evident - easily seen or understood
- So-called - used for showing that you think a word used for describing someone or something is not suitable
- Fool-proof - a foolproof method, plan, or system is so well designed that it cannot go wrong or is certain to succeed
- Incarcerated - to put or keep someone in prison
- Conspiracy - the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal
- Accomplices - a person who helps someone else to commit a crime or to do something morally wrong
- Meticulous - very careful and with great attention to every detail
- Overtones - something that is suggested, but is not clearly stated
- Run-up - the final period of time before an important event
- Suspicion - a belief or idea that something may be true
- Connivance - to plan secretly, especially to do something that is illegal or immoral
- Retaliatory - intended to do something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- Ineffective - not producing the effects or results that are wanted
- Breakdown - a failure to work or be successful
- Complicity - involvement in a crime or some activity that is wrong
- Probe - to try to discover information that other people do not want you to know, by asking questions carefully and not directly
- Unravel - to make something known or understood
- Laxity - not serious or strong enough
- Shortcoming - a fault or a failure to reach a particular standard
- Regimen - set of rules
- Loophole - a small mistake in an agreement or law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something
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