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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 13th January 2017. Happy reading :)
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Note : Hindu Vocabulary from 14th to 16th and Daily Current Affairs from 13th to 16th will be available soon.
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Surviving the drought"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Strategic partnership. Really ?"
- Surviving - continuing to live or exist
- Drought - a long period when there is little or no rain
- Ironically - in a way that is different or opposite from the result you would expect
- Harvest - the time of year when crops are cut and collected from the fields, or the activity of cutting and collecting them, or the crops that are cut and collected
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Agrarian - relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming
- Distress - a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain
- Sweeping - affecting many things or people; large
- Desperation - the feeling of needing or wanting something very much
- Spate - a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time
- Cauvery - kaveri river
- Postponement - to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later date or time
- Waiver - an agreement that you do not have to pay or obey something
- Infuse - to fill someone or something with an emotion or quality
- Reform - an improvement, especially in a person's behaviour or in the structure of something
- Mitigation - a reduction in how harmful, unpleasant, or bad something is
- Intensively - involving a lot of effort or activity in a short period of time
- For instance - for example
- Scarce - not easy to find or get
- Conservatively - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Cattle - cows and bulls that are kept for their milk
- Livestock - animals and birds that are kept on a farm, such as cows, sheep, or chickens
- Irreparable - impossible to repair or make right again
- Cascading - to fall quickly and in large amounts
- Marginal - very small
- Overstate - to talk about something in a way that makes it seem more important, impressive, or serious than it really is
- Vagaries - unexpected events or changes that cannot be controlled and can influence a situation
- Successive - happening one after the other without any break
- Obligation - something that you must do for legal or moral reasons
- Asset - something valuable belonging to a person or organization that can be used for the payment of debts
- Ensure - to make something certain to happen
- Manual - a book that gives you practical instructions on how to do something or how to use something
- Chiefly - mainly
- Deficit - lack of something
- Reliance - the state of depending on or trusting in something or someone
- Cultivation - the process of growing crops or plants
- Millets - small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Strategic partnership. Really ?"
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Strategic partnership - an arrangement between two companies or organizations to help each other or work together, to make it easier for each of them to achieve the things they want to achieve
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Diplomatic - acting in a way that does not cause offence
- Nicety - the fact that something is based on very slight differences
- Invariably - always
- Flowery - if a speech or writing style is flowery, it uses too many complicated words or phrases in an attempt to sound skilful
- Nevertheless - despite what has just been said or referred to
- Excessive - too much
- Parse - to examine and describe the grammar of a sentence or a particular word in a sentence
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Imply - to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly
- Convergence - a situation in which people or things gradually become the same or very similar
- Vital - extremely important
- Warrant - to make a particular activity necessary
- Land-locked - surrounded by the land of other countries and having no coast
- Subsistence - the state of having what you need in order to stay alive, but no more
- Mass murder - the act of killing a lot of people
- Delegation - a group of people who represent a country, government, or organization
- Window-dressing - things that are of no real importance and are said or done in order to make an attractive effect
- Imbuing - to fill someone or something with a particular quality or emotion
- Successive - happening one after the other without any break
- Nomenclature - a system for naming things
- Neighbour - someone who lives near you
- Genuinely - honestly, or in a sincere way
- Cogent - reasonable and sensible
- Clear-cut - definite and easy to understand, recognize, or make a decision about
- Convergence - a situation in which people or things gradually become the same or very similar
Note : Hindu Vocabulary from 14th to 16th and Daily Current Affairs from 13th to 16th will be available soon.
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