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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 6th January 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A mid-term referendum"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Being factual in the post-truth era"
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A mid-term referendum"
- Mid-term - in the middle of the period when a government is in office
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Barely - used for saying that something almost does not happen or exist, or is almost not possible
- Beyond - outside a particular area
- Halfway - in the middle of a period of time
- Overstate - to talk about something in a way that makes it seem more important, impressive, or serious than it really is
- Federalisation - the state of being under central government's control
- Regionalisation - the way that an area of the world containing several countries becomes more economically or politically important than the particular countries within that area
- Bagger - winner
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done
- Sidelight - a less important issue connected with the main subject of something such as a report or a discussion
- Unveiled - to announce something officially that was previously a secret
- Tripartite - involving three people or organizations
- Bracing - preparing
- Revolt - to refuse to accept something such as a law or a decision
- Chunk - a part of something, especially a large part
- Forge - to make or produce something, especially with some difficulty
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
- Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport
- Polarisation - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other
- In the wake of something - if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and often because of it
- Throw down the gauntlet - to make it clear that you want to argue or fight with someone about something
- Clinching - to finally get or win something
- Staked - to risk losing or damaging something valuable in order to obtain or achieve something
- Precipitated - to make something happen or begin to exist suddenly and quickly, especially something bad
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Volatile - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Ignited - to cause a dangerous, excited, or angry situation to begin
- Fray - to separate
- Reverberations - effects that spread and affect a lot of people
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Being factual in the post-truth era"
- Factual - using or consisting of facts
- Post-truth - relating to a situation or system in which facts are neglected in favour of emotions and beliefs
- Threatened - warned
- Retaliatory - a retaliatory action is one that is harmful to someone who has done something to harm you
- Pizzeria - a restaurant that sells pizza
- Trafficking - the business of buying and selling things such as drugs or weapons illegally
- Deliberate - intentional or planned
- Imperative - extremely important or urgent
- Perpetually - continuing for ever in the same way
- Proliferation - to increase a lot and suddenly in number
- Clickbait - articles, photographs, etc. on the internet that are intended to attract attention and encourage people to click on links to particular websites
- Impact - a powerful effect that something has on a situation or person
- Far-reaching - affecting a lot of people or things in an important way
- Abundance - a very large quantity of something
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something
- Combat - to try to stop something unpleasant or harmful from happening or increasing
- Muzzle - to stop a person or organization from expressing independent opinions
- Vital - necessary
- Regulate - to control something
- Rigorous - controlling behaviour in a serious way
- Adherence - the fact of someone behaving exactly according to rules, beliefs, etc
- Charter - an official statement that makes rules for something
- Falling short - to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for
- Meanwhile - at the same time
- Contours - limits
- Deliberately - intentionally
- Misrepresent - to describe falsely an idea, opinion, or situation, often in order to get an advantage
- Inhabit - to live in a place
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