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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 18th January 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "In the nick of time"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A wake-up call"
- In the nick of time - only just in time
- Council - a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject
- Breakthrough - an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem
- Outstanding - clearly very much better than what is usual
- Negotiables - a proposal, agreement, or amount of money that is negotiable can be changed through discussion by the people involved before a final agreement is reached
- Regime - a particular way of operating or organizing a business, etc
- Subsume - to include something or someone as part of a larger group
- Myriad - a very large number of something
- Levy - an amount of money, such as a tax, that you have to pay to a government or organization
- Administer - to control the operation or arrangement of something
- Turnover - the amount of business that a company does in a period of time
- Leeway - freedom to act within particular limits
- Rreform - to make an improvement, especially by changing a person's behaviour or the structure of something
- Inevitable - certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
- Laying to rest - to end something
- Rollout - the act of making something, especially a product or service, available for the first time
- Eyeing - look at closely or with interest
- Stimulus - something that causes growth or activity
- Flurry - a sudden, short period of activity, excitement, or interest
- Downgrade - to reduce something to a lower rank or position
- Tricky - difficult to do
- Concerns - a feeling of worry about something
- Stakeholder - a person or company that has invested in a business and owns part of it
- The minutiae - small and often not important details
- Finesse - great skill or style
- Penal - of or relating to punishment given by law
- Provision - a statement within an agreement or a law that a particular thing must happen or be done, especially before another can happen or be done
- Profiteer - to make large profits by charging high prices for things that people need and cannot get anywhere else
- Framework - a system of rules, ideas, or beliefs that is used to plan or decide something
- Envisage - to imagine or expect that something is a likely or desirable possibility in the future
- Exponential - increasing or growing very fast
- Scuttled - to make a plan, agreement, attempt etc fail or stop
- Raj - the period when Britain ruled India. It ended in 1947.
- Meticulously - very carefully and with great attention to every detail
- Intent - giving all your attention to something
- Worthwhile - useful, important, or good enough to be a suitable reward for the money or time spent or the effort made
- Fortnight - a period of two weeks
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A wake-up call"
- Wake-up call - a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave
- Flurry - a short period of activity or emotion
- Emerge - to become known
- A host of - a large number of something
- Diet - the food that a person or animal usually eats
- Colonial-era - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Disciplinary - connected with the punishment of people who do not obey rules
- Breach - a failure to follow a law or rule
- Lentil - a round flat seed that you boil before you eat it. You normally buy lentils in dried form
- Line of Control (LOC) - the military control line between the Indian and Pakistani controlled parts of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir
- Open the floodgates - to suddenly make it possible or easier for a lot of things to happen
- Infantry - soldiers who fight on foot, not on horses or in tanks or other vehicles
- Brigade - a large group of soldiers in an army
- Grievances - a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly
- Allege - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Victimised - to treat someone in a deliberately unfair way
- Court martial - a military court for trials of members of the armed forces who have broken military laws
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Buddy system - an arrangement in which two people look after each other or help each other to do something
- Deputed - to give someone official authority to do something that you are responsible for doing
- Chore - an ordinary job that must be done regularly
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Paramilitary - organized and operating like an army
- Outright - completely or immediately
- Breach - an act of breaking a law
- Rampant - (of something bad) getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way
- Malaise - a general feeling of being worried, unhappy, or not satisfied
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