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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 21st January 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Living in a hotter world"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A deserved commutation"
- Turned the page - to leave an event or series of events behind and continue (to make a fresh start)
- Revelation - the act of making something known that was secret
- In a row - one after another, without anything different happening in between
- Aggravate - to make a bad situation worse
- El Nino - a change in the currents of the Pacific Ocean off the South American coast that can seriously affect the weather in the region, often causing major problems such as floods
- Phenomenon - an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist
- Intensive - involving a lot of something
- Emission - the act of sending out gas, heat, light, etc
- Atmosphere - the mixture of gases around the earth
- Declining - becoming less or worse
- Compounding - to make a problem or difficult situation worse
- Vicious - extremely violent
- Accelerate - to happen or make something happen at a faster rate
- Consequence - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient
- Coastal - on land beside a sea
- Altered - to become different
- Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die
- Biodiversity - the variety of different types of plant and animal life in a particular region
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Heartening - to make someone feel happier and more hopeful
- Virtually - used for emphasizing that a statement is almost completely true
- Cautioned - to tell someone about a danger or problem that they need to know about or avoid
- Reneging - to decide not to do something that you promised to do
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Unambiguous - clear and with only one possible meaning
- Scaling up - to make something larger in size, amount etc than it used to be
- Renewable energy - renewable energy and natural materials replace themselves by natural processes, so that they are never completely used up
- Measurable - large enough to be measured, noticed, or important
- Fossil - an animal or plant, or a part of one, that lived many thousands of years ago and is preserved in rock or as a piece of rock
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Domestic - relating to people’s homes and family life
- Upgrade - to improve the quality of a service or product
- Enhanced - made better, especially by artificial methods
- Livestock - animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs that are kept on farms
- Vulnerable - someone who is vulnerable is weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A deserved commutation"
- Commutation - the action of changing a punishment to one that is less severe
- Whistle-blower - a person who tells someone in authority about something illegal that is happening, especially in a government department or a company
- Classified - classified information is officially secret and allowed to be known by only a few people connected with the government or armed forces
- Outgoing - leaving a job
- Gender dysphoria - a condition in which someone believes that he or she was born with the wrong gender and would prefer to be the other gender
- Undergoing - to experience something, especially something that is unpleasant but necessary
- Gender reassignment - a medical operation or series of operations that change a man into a woman or a woman into a man
- Sentence - a punishment given by a judge, usually involving a period of time that a person must spend in prison
- Pardon - to officially forgive someone for committing a crime and free them from prison
- Federal - relating to the central government
- Insist - to say very strongly that something must happen or must be done
- Pleading guilty - if you plead guilty to a criminal offence (charge) it means you accept that you committed the offence
- Espionage - attempts to discover your enemy’s political, military, or industrial secrets using secret methods
- Fraud - the crime of getting money by deceiving people
- Diplomatic cable - a confidential text message exchanged between countries
- Dossiers - a set of documents about a person or situation
- Assuage - to make unpleasant feelings less strong
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
- In the face of something - despite having to deal with a difficult situation or problem
- Uncomplimentary - rudely criticizing
- Diplomats - an official whose job is to represent one country in another
- Fraught - very worried and with a lot of problems
- Juncture - a particular point in time
- Embassy - the building where diplomats work
- Extradite - to send someone accused of a crime back to the country where the crime was committed for a trial
- Abide - to continue
- Allege - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Malfeasance - illegal actions
- Derail - to prevent something from continuing in the way that it was planned
- Debacle - a complete failure
- Mitigate - to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad
- Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
- Superpower - a country that has great military, economic, and political power
- Preaches - to give people advice, or to tell them how to behave, in a way that annoys them
- Democratic - based on the principle that all people are equal and should be able to share in making decisions
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Come down with an iron fist - to control a group of people very firmly, having complete power over everything they do
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