English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 13th November 2017

Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of Today's Hindu News Paper dated 13th November 2017. Happy reading :)

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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Justice in tumult: on the turmoil in Supreme Court"

Tumult - a confused and excited situation or mental state
Turmoil - a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder
Probe - an attempt to find out the truth about an issue, problem, or accident, made by an official group
Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
Plot - a secret plan to do something bad
Roster - a list of people's names, often with the jobs they have been given to do
Dispute - a serious disagreement
Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
Potential - someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, or succeed
Diminish - to make something become less
Lustre - a bright, shiny appearance
Amidst - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
Worrisome - causing you to feel worried
Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
Conflict of interest - a situation in which someone cannot make fair decisions because they will be affected by the results
Overrule - to officially change a decision that someone else has made
Delineate - to describe something very exactly
Writ - an official document that tells someone to do something or to stop doing something
Perverse - determined to behave in an unreasonable way, especially by doing the opposite of what is expected or wanted
Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
Propriety - behaviour that follows accepted social or moral standards
Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
Fraternity - feelings of friendship, trust, and support between people
Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
Sidestepping - to avoid something difficult or unpleasant
Grim - worrying, without hope
Susceptible - easily influenced or affected by something
Substantive - important or serious

Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Hit refresh: on the slashed GST rates"

Slash - to reduce something by a large amount
Rationalise - to make a company, way of working, etc. more effective
Regime - a system of rules that control something
Impact - an effect, or an influence
Far-reaching - affecting a lot of people or things in an important way
Council - an official group of people who have been chosen to make decisions or provide advice
Tweak - to make small changes in order to improve something
Ambit - the range within which something, especially a rule or law, is effective or has power
Turnover - the value of the goods and services that a company sells in a particular period of time
Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
Spur - something that encourages someone to do something
Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
Inventory - the amount of goods a shop has, or the value of them
Mandarin - a senior official in the government departments
Exchequer - the government department responsible for a country’s financial matters
Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
Bandwidth - the ability to deal with work, problems etc
Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
Rang truer - to sound true or sincere
Curious - strange and unusual
Tactfully - in a careful and cautious way
Degenerate - to become worse
Constituency - the voters in a division of a country who elect a representative to parliament
Transparent - open and honest, without secrets
Explicit - said or explained in an extremely clear way, so that you cannot doubt what is meant
Rationale - the set of reasons that something such as a plan or belief is based on
Wistful - sad and thinking about something that is impossible