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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 2nd February 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
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- Purge - to remove a bad or unpleasant condition or feeling from someone or something
- Dampen - to make something such as a feeling or hope less strong
- Informal - not official and has no fixed rules
- Imperative - extremely important or urgent
- Soothed - to make someone feel calm or less worried
- Frayed - used to describe someone's mood when they are feeling worried, upset, or annoyed
- Nerves - worry or anxiety
- Glimpse - an experience that gives you an idea of what something is like
- Regeneration - to grow again
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Resorting to something - to do or use something because it is the only thing available
- Blatant - very obvious and intentional, when this is a bad thing
- Populism - political ideas and activities that are intended to get the support of ordinary people by giving them what they want
- Apart from - except for someone or something
- Sop - something of little importance or value that is offered to stop complaints or unhappiness
- Vulnerable - very weak
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Turnover - the value of the goods and services that a company sells in a particular period of time
- Bulwark - something that protects you from dangerous or unpleasant situations
- Road map - a plan for how to achieve something
- Nudge - to encourage someone in a gentle way to do something
- Redistributive - used to describe an action that is intended to share money more fairly between rich and poor people
- Surcharge - a charge in addition to the usual amount paid for something, or the amount already paid
- Tax-evaders - people who avoid or escape paying taxes
- Disclose - to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden
- Remarkable - unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Dodger - someone who illegally avoids paying something such as a tax or a rail or bus fare
- Rationalising - to try to find a reasonable explanation for behaviour that does not seem reasonable or suitable
- Incentivise - to give someone a reason for wanting to work hard
- Subventions - an amount of money given as support by an organization or government for a particular purpose
- Spur - something that encourages someone to do something
- Irrigation - to supply land with water so that crops and plants will grow
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Refrained - to stop yourself from doing something
- Tinkering - to make small changes to something in order to improve or repair it
- Deviation - a difference in the usual or expected way of doing something
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters, especially taxes
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Deviate - to start doing something different from what is expected or agreed
- Consolidation - to cause something to become, stronger, and more certain
- Alter - to make something or someone different
- Macroeconomic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Unfettered - without limits or controls
- Flip side - opposite side
- Confiscate - to officially remove someone’s possessions for legal reasons or as a punishment
- Defaulter - someone who does not pay interest or other money that they owe, or who fails to do something that they should do by law
- Flee - to escape from a dangerous situation or place very quickly
- Potent - powerful, or effective
- Red herring - something that is not relevant that makes you confused or takes your attention away from what you should be concentrating on
- Anonymously - made or done by someone whose name is not known or not made public
- Electoral - relating to elections
- Donor - someone who gives things such as money or goods to an organization
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Leaning - a particular set of beliefs, opinions, etc. that someone prefers
- Subsume - to include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character
- Acquisition - something such as a building, another company, or a piece of land that is bought by a company, or the act of buying it
- Level crossing - a place where a road crosses a railway and gates are used to stop cars when a train is coming
- Tariff - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Obligation - something that you must do
- Corridor - a long passage in a building or train, especially with rooms on either side
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford (not expensive)
- Freight - goods that are carried by vehicles
- Apart from - in addition to someone or something
- Dovetail - to fit together, or to work together well
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Extensively - very large in amount or degree
- Deftly - quickly and with skill
- Workmanlike - done or made in a professional way
- Optimism - a tendency to be hopeful and to expect that good things will probably happen
- Legislative - relating to laws or to the process of creating new laws
- On the ground - in the place being discussed, especially a place where there is a war or another serious situation
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