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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 8th December 2016. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The Reserve Bank of India’s big surprise"
- Opting - to make a choice or decission
- Benchmark - a level of quality that can be used as a standard when comparing other things
- Outlook - an idea about what a situation will be like in the future
- In the wake of something - if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and often because of it
- Legal tender - coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment
- Denomination - a unit of value, especially of money
- Bimonthly - happening or appearing every two months
- Monetary policy - actions taken by a government to control the amount of money in an economy and how easily available it is, for example by changing the interest rate
- Heightened - to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion or effect
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known
- Imminent - coming or likely to happen very soon
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Endanger - to put someone or something into a situation where they might be harmed or damaged
- Federal Reserve - the central bank of the US
- Homeward-bound - towards home (incoming)
- Buoy - to prevent someone or something from sinking
- Intermittently - not happening regularly or continuously; stopping and starting repeatedly or with periods in between
- Intervene - to intentionally become involved in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse
- Volatility - to suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Exert - to use influence, authority, or power in order to affect or achieve something
- Commodity - something that can be bought and sold, especially a basic food product or fuel
- Crude oil - oil that is still in its natural state and has not yet been refined for use by chemical processes
- Alibi - an excuse for something bad or for a failure
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Stubbornly - strongly (very difficult to change or to defeat)
- Downward - moving towards a lower position
- Inflexibility - not easily changed
- Turbulence - a state of confusion without any order
- Jeopardise - to risk damaging or destroying something important
- Basis points - used in relation to interest rates to mean one-hundredth of one percent
- Momentum - progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Cash-intensive - involving a lot of cash
- Resultant - caused by the event or situation that you have just mentioned
- Disruption - a situation in which something cannot continue because of a problem
- Drag down - to cause someone’s social position or standards of behaviour to become worse
- Persistence - a situation in which something unpleasant continues to exist
- Rebound - to return to a better level or position
- Transient - lasting for only a short time (temporary)
- Reiterating - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear
- Stance - a way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly stated opinion
- Wit - the ability to use words in a clever and humorous way
- Analyst - someone whose job is to study or examine something in detail
- Satirist - a person who criticizes people or ideas in a humorous way
- Enliven - to make something more interesting
- Morality - a set of personal or social standards for good or bad behaviour and character
- Temper - to make something less strong
- Veteran - a person who has had a lot of experience of a particular activity
- Playwright - a person who writes plays / dramas
- Dramatist - a person who writes plays / dramas
- Commentator - someone whose job is to give a description of an event or sports competition on television or radio as it happens
- Chiefly - mainly
- Cow - to make someone do what you want by frightening them
- Cow down - to bend before somebody and do whatever they wants you to do because you have fear on them
- Numerous - many
- Upstart - a new competitor
- Angst - strong worry and unhappiness, especially about personal problems
- Hold a dim view - to disapprove of something
- Loyalty - support that you always give to someone or something because of your feelings of duty and love towards them
- Coincided - to happen at the same time as something else
- Authoritarian - demanding that people obey completely and refusing to allow them freedom to act as they wish
- Resonance - an emotional effect produced by something that reminds you of something else
- Nationalist - a person who wants their country to be politically independent
- Right-of-centre - slightly conservative in your political views (not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society)
- Disdainful - the feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect
- Aspiration - something that you hope to achieve
- Fierce - strong and powerful
- Critic - someone whose job is to give their opinion about something
- Dominant - more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the same type
- Lampooner - a person who publicly criticize someone or something by making jokes about them
- Liberal - respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour
- Streak - an element of a specified kind in someone's character
- Conservatism - the quality of not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change
- Outlook - a person's way of understanding and thinking about something
- Ultimately - finally
- Inimitable - so good or unusual that no one else can do the same
- Withering - serious and extremely critical
- Sarcasm - the activity of saying or writing the opposite of what you mean
- Vigorous - very forceful or energetic
- Espousal - support for an idea, principle, or belief
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Ethics - a set of principles that people use to decide what is right and what is wrong
- Gossip - unimportant subjects, especially people’s private lives
- Baseless - not based on facts or evidence
- Middle-class - a social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are neither very rich nor very poor
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