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Friends, based on the readers' interest, THE HINDU News Paper has released Top 10 Editorials of the year 2016. Here I am presenting those editorials links with word to word meanings. Just click on the editorial title to read the complete editorial. Happy Reading :)
- Surgical strike - a military attack, especially by air, that is designed to destroy something specific and to avoid wider damage
- Uncharted - an uncharted place or situation is completely new and therefore has never been described before
- Terrain - an area of land, usually one that has a particular physical feature
- Abandoning - to leave a place, thing, or person, usually for ever
- Self-proclaimed - used for saying what a particular person, organization etc describes themselves as, even though other people might not agree
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal, especially in war, business, or politics
- Restraint - the limit or control of the expression of strong emotion or opinion
- Provocation - something that causes you to react in an angry or violent way
- Backed - supported
- Early hours - the period of time between midnight and the very early morning
- Claimed - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Injury - physical damage done to a person or a part of their body
- Para-commando - a soldier trained to jump out of planes wearing a parachute
- Evidently - used for showing that a statement is based on known facts
- Pre-emptive - if something is pre-emptive, it is done before other people can act, especially to prevent them from doing something else
- Convey - to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly
- Poised - about to do or achieve something after preparing for it
- Wreak - to cause very great harm or damage
- Shelling - attacks by soldiers who are firing shells
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Escalate - to make something become greater or more serious
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Briefings - a meeting or document in which people receive information or instructions
- Envoy - an official who represents their country in another country, with a rank below an ambassador
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Pulled out - to stop being involved in an activity, event, or situation
- Articulate - able to express your thoughts, arguments, and ideas clearly and effectively
- Dissuade - to make someone not to do something
- Scholar - a person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university
- Testimony - evidence or proof of something
- Feudal - a society that is organized according to rank (in which people of lower level of society receive land to live and work for those higher than them in rank)
- Roil - to upset (someone or something) very much
- Harbour - keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind / especially secretly
- Delusion - belief in something that is not true
- Meritocracies - a social system / organization in which people have power because of their abilities, not because of their money or social position
- Blatant - done openly without shame
- Punitive - intended as a punishment
- Affiliate - officially attached to an organization
- Culminated - reached a climax or point of highest development
- Cut short - to stop doing something before it is finished
- Abetment - to encourage / force to do something
- Violation - doing something that is not allowed by a law or rule
- Atrocity - an extremely cruel, violent, or shocking act
- Circumstances - events that change your life, over which you have no control
- Sparked - a first small event or problem that causes a much worse situation t
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable
- Onerous - a task involving a great effort, trouble, or difficulty
- Futile - having no effect or achieving nothing
- Discrimination - treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people (because of their skin colour, sex etc)
- Damning - a report which includes a lot of criticism or shows clearly that someone is wrong
- Indictment - a sign that a policy, system, society, etc. is bad or wrong
- Ghetto - very poor area, where people of a particular race or religion live closely together and apart from other people
- Virulent - extremely poisonous or injurious
- Hostile - unfriendly
- Prejudice - an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling
- Exclusion - the act of not allowing someone to take part in an activity or to enter a place
- Rot - unacceptable behavior
- Stalking - the crime of illegally following and watching someone over a period of time
- Brutal - cruel, violent, and completely without feelings
- Hacking - killing somebody with knife
- In broad daylight - if a crime is committed in broad daylight, it happens during the day, when it could have been seen and prevented
- Shone a harsh light on something - to show / say directly that something is very bad
- Reinforced - to make something stronger
- Nabbing - catching someone who did something wrong
- Engage - involve
- Tragic - very sad (often involving death and suffering)
- Countless - so many to be counted
- To address - to give attention to / to deal with a problem
- Continuum - a continuous sequence
- Extreme - very great
- Cracking down - to start dealing with bad or illegal behaviour in a more serious way
- Harassment - behaviour that annoys or upsets someone
- Essential - necessary or needed
- Definitively - surely (without any doubt)
- Hindsight - the ability to understand a situation only after it has happened
- Mildly - not seriously
- Playful way - funny and not serious
- Preventable - able to be stopped from happening
- Mourned - to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death
- Corrosive - harmful and causing bad feelings
- Potentially - possibly
- Nudged-out - to force someone come out of something
- Amendment - a minor change to improve something
- Dignity - the importance and value that a person has, that makes other people respect them
- Imprisonment - to put someone in jail
- Offence - an illegal act / crime
- Subsequent - happening after something else
- Conviction - a formal diclaration by the court that someone is guilty of a criminal offence
- Foster - to encourage the development or growth of feelings
- Disinterest - lack of interest
- Empowered - to give someone freedom / authority to do something
Editorial 4 : "ISRO makes India proud again"
- Milestone - an event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process
- Equipped - having the necessary tools / equipment, etc
- Indigenous - developed in a place or country without the help of other
- Cryogenic - low temperature
- Departure - an occasion when someone leaves a place
- Workhorse - a very useful piece of equipment that you use a lot
- Consecutive - following one after another in order
- Elite - the best in a group
- Mastered - acquire complete knowledge or skill in something (a subject, technique, or art)
- Structural - related to the structure of something
- Thermal - relating to heat
- Integrity - the quality of being whole and complete
- Combustion - the chemical process in which substances mix with oxygen in the air to produce heat and light
- Likewise - in the same way
- Igniting - to make something start to burn
- Sustaining - to provide the conditions in which something can happen or exist
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Daunting - very difficult
- Payload - the equipment or people in a space vehicle
- Soil - a country
- Unlike - different from someone or something else
- Propellant - a substance used for making something move forwards, for example fuel for sending a rocket into space
- Impulse - something that is the driving force behind something else
- Thrust - to put something somewhere with a quick hard push
- Lack of something - a situation in which you do not have something
- Take place - to happen
- Rely on something - to depend on something
- Tremendously - extremely /very much
- Curious - strange and unusual
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Suspect - a person believed to have committed a crime or done something wrong
- Given rise to - cause to happen
- Claim - to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might not believe it
- Lone - single / only
- Assailant - someone who violently attacks another person
- Stalked - to hunt a person or animal by following them without being seen
- Unusual - not normal, common, or ordinary
- Tendency - if someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or like it
- Slash - to cut in a violent way
- Warder - someone whose job is to guard prisoners in a prison
- Counselling - advice and help that you give someone with their problems
- Ought to have (done something) - used when you realize that someone did not do the right thing in the past
- Overtones - something that is suggested, but is not clearly stated
- Dispensary - a place in a hospital where you can get medicines and drugs
- Lapse - a temporary failure
- Incarceration - to keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it
- Overcrowded - containing too many people or things
- Understaffed - not having enough workers to do a job quickly or effectively
- Electrocution - to kill or injure someone with electricity
- Determined - wanting to do something very much and not allowing anyone or any difficulties to stop you
- Inescapable - impossible to avoid or ignore
- Resistant - not harmed or affected by something
- Auditing - to examine something carefully, especially to decide on its effectiveness
- Reassurance - the act of making someone feel less worried about something
- Purported - said by some people to be real or true, but not proved to be real or true
- Lacunae - an empty space where something is missing
- Speculation - the activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough information to be certain:
- Culprit - someone who is responsible for doing something bad or illegal
- Judicial - involving a law court
- Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident
- Credibly - capable of being believed; believable
- Extra-judicially - done without the permission of or without using the official legal system
- Gathering - the process or activity of collecting information
- Evidence - one or more reasons for believing that something is true or not true
- Stormed - to use force to enter a place and take control of it
- Army base - a centre from which military activities are coordinated
- Explicitly - fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated
- Establishment - organization
- Persistent - lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid of
- Reportedly - according to what many people say
- Probability - a measure of how likely something is to happen
- Line of Control - the military control line between the Indian and Pakistani controlled parts of the former princely state of Kashmir and Jammu
- Grenade - a small bomb that someone throws or fires from a gun
- Markings - a pattern of marks painted on the surface of something
- Statecraft - the skill of governing a country
- Unleashed - to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled
- Attain - to succeed in achieving something
- Objective - something that you plan to achieve
- Provocation - something that causes you to react in an angry or violent way
- Manoeuvrability - ability to be moved easily in situations that need care or skill
- Restrained - controlled and not emotional
- Firm - strong / hard
- Reckless - not thinking about the possible bad effects of your actions
- Condemning - to criticize something or someone strongly
- Cowardly - lacking courage
- Unpunished - not punished for having done something wrong or illegal
- Heavy-lifting - difficult work that needs a lot of effort
- Diplomatically - acting in a way that does not cause offence
- Emerged - to become known
- Comprehensive - complete
- Domestic Militancy - violent acts committed by citizens or permanent residents of a place against their own people or property
- Cross-border - between different countries, or involving people from different countries
- Inconsistent - not always behaving in the same way or producing the same results
- Adversary - an enemy or opponent
- Exploit - to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this
- Poke fun at - to make unkind jokes about someone or something
- Robust - strong
- Doctrine - a set of principles or beliefs, especially religious or political ones
- Sophisticated - knowing and understanding a lot about a complicated subject
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Blame game - a situation in which one party blames others for something bad or unfortunate rather than attempting to seek a solution
- Infiltration - the process of secretly joining an organization or go into a place in order to find out information about it or damage it
- Went up in flames - to burn or be destroyed by fire
- Gradual - slowly (step by step)
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Strife - fighting or disagreement between people or groups
- Bias - to influence someone’s opinions, decisions etc so that they behave or think in an unfair way
- Myopia - lack of intelligence, understanding or careful thought
- Assuring - to tell someone that something will definitely happen or is definitely true, especially in order to remove doubt about it
- Nationalism - patriotic feeling
- Agenda - a list of aims or possible future achievements
- Discerned - recognize or find out
- First flush - at the start of something
- Pick fights - to start a fight or argument with someone on purpose
- Unfolded - became clear to other people
- Condemnable - deserving strong disapproval
- Gravity - seriousness
- Parody - to copy the style of someone or something in a humorous way
- Unmoved - not affected by emotion or excitement
- Obstinate - a problem / situation, that is difficult to deal with
- Condemnation - the expression of very strong disapproval
- Outrage - an extremely strong reaction of anger
- Seditious - the crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government
- Convicted - to decide officially in a law court that someone is guilty of a crime
- Equivalence - the condition of being equivalent (equality)
- virtually - nearly / almost
- Essential - necessary or needed
- Citizenry - the citizens of a place
- Enforce - to make people obey a law
- Utterance - the action of saying or expressing something aloud
- Anxiety - a feeling of worry
- Touchstone - an established standard or principle by which something is judged
- Dispensation - exemption from a rule (special permission)
- Excess - an amount of something that is more than necessary
- Insinuated - suggest or hint something bad in an indirect and unpleasant way
- Curious - strange / unusual
- Overlay - to cover something
- Agitations - the situations in which people protest or argue in public, in order to achieve a particular type of change
- Menace - something that is likely to cause harm
- Instances - examples
- Thin-skinned - sensitive to criticism (easily hurt by criticism)
- Fend off somebody - to push or send away an attacker or other unwanted person
- Speak up - to express one's opinions frankly and publicly
- Curb - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Unaccounted - missing / unpaid
- Legal tender - the money that can be officially used in a country
- Invoked - to use a law in order to achieve something
- Provocative - intended to start arguments between people
- Imagery - the use of words or pictures in books, films, paintings, etc. to describe ideas or situations
- Stashing - storing or hiding something, especially a large amount
- Ill-gained - to get something in an illegal way
- Illicit - illegal or disapproved of by society
- Fuelling - to increase something
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Seldom - not often (almost never)
- Disproportionate - too large or too small in comparison to something else, or not deserving its importance or influence
- Counterfeit - counterfeit bank notes, products, tickets etc are illegal copies made in order to cheak people
- Purge - to remove a bad or unpleasant condition or feeling from someone or something
- Amassed - to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period
- Hardship - (something that causes) difficult or unpleasant conditions of life
- Scramble - to compete with other people for something there is very little of
- Expenditure - the total amount of money that a government or person spends
- Outweigh - to be greater or more important than something else
- Stash - to store or hide something, especially a large amount
- Dramatic - very sudden or noticeable, or full of action and excitement
- Amnesty - a fixed period of time during which people are not punished for committing a particular crime
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Saddled - burdened
- Reform - to make an improvement
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Spawning - to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly
- Cauvery - Kaveri river of South India
- Monsoon - rainy season
- Falling short - to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for, causing disappointment
- Deficient - not good enough
- Rushing - moving quickly
- Citing - to mention something as a reason why something has happened
- Crisis - a time of great suffering
- Erupting - to start suddenly with a lot of violence or noise
- Sporadic - happening sometimes; not regular or continuous
- Litigation - the process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made
- Ad hoc - done only when needed for a specific purpose, without planning or preparation
- Adjudication - to act as judge in a competition or argument, or to make a formal decision about something
- Mutual - belonging to two or more people
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want
- Distress - 1 a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Ensure - to make sure that something happens or is done
- Award - a judgment given by a court of law
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- Deficiency - a state of not having, or not having enough, of something that is needed
- Pro rata - calculated according to the individual situation
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Regulatory - controlling
- Authority - a group of people with official responsibility for a particular area of activity
- Oversee - to watch or organize an activity to make sure that it is being done correctly
- Comprising - consisting
- Representative - someone who speaks or does something officially for another person or group of people
- Approach - to meet someone in order to do something such as make a request or business agreement
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Counterpart - a person, who has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization
- Contend - to compete in order to win something
- Betraying - if someone betrays something such as a promise, they do not do what they promised
- Desire - a strong feeling of wanting to have or to do something
- Empathy - the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation
- Dilly-dally - to waste time
- Notifying - to tell someone officially about something
- Devise - to invent a plan, system, object, etc., using your intelligence
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Depleting - reducing
- Acreage - an area of land, often measured in acres
- Intensive - involving
- Hold the key - to have control of something
- Initiative - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Hold sway - to be the main influence on people’s opinions or behaviour
- Demilitarised - to reduce a nation's army, weapons, or military vehicles
- Avalanche - a large amount of snow falling quickly down from the side of a mountain
- Glacier - a large amount of ice that moves slowly
- Stark - complete / extreme
- Inhospitable - an environment which is harsh and difficult to live in
- Isolated - far away from other places
- Troops - soldiers
- Infantry - soldiers marching on foot
- Massive - large and heavy
- Terrain - an area of land
- Strategic - used to provide military forces with an advantage
- Clinch - confirm
- Comprehensive - complete and including everything that is necessary
- Redeployment - the process of sending soldiers to work in a different place
- Conflict - a serious disagreement or argument
- Conform - to behave according to the socially acceptable standards
- Durable - able to last a long time without becoming damaged
- The status quo - the present situation
- To pay a very high price - to experience very bad result of something you have done
- Remote - far away from any towns or cities
- Outpost - a small military camp or position at some distance from the main army
- Delineation - the action of indicating the exact position of a border or boundary
- Demarcating - making a dividing line
- Low-hanging fruits - Targets or goals which are easily achievable and which do not require a lot of effort
- Doable - it can be achieved / performed
- Sacrifice - to give up something valuable
- Put in harm’s way - in a dangerous situation
- Seized - to take something quickly and keep or hold it
- Vagaries - unexpected changes that cannot be controlled
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