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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of Today's Hindu News Paper dated 22nd November 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Born to rule — On Rahul Gandhi's elevation"
- Elevation - the act of giving someone higher status or a more important position
- Sound - complete
- Face-off - if people or groups face off, they compete or fight with each other
- For the asking - available if you ask for it
- Step down - to leave an official position or job, especially so that someone else can take your place
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Succession - the process by which one person comes after another as a king, queen, or leader
- Fractious - causing problems and difficult to control
- Formalise - to make something such as a plan, system, or agreement official
- De facto - actual, even though not official
- Resurgent - quickly becoming popular, important, or successful again
- Elevation - the act of giving someone higher status or a more important position
- Significant - very important
- Devastating - very shocking or upsetting
- Unflattering - making someone seem unpleasant or not attractive
- Dominant - more important, powerful, or successful than the other people or things of the same type
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
- Entitlement - the right to receive something or to do something
- Torn up (tear up) - to destroy something such as a piece of paper or cloth by pulling it into pieces
- Ordinance - an official order
- Promulgate - to make an official announcement introducing a law or rule
- Negate - to make something have no effect
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Beholden - feeling an obligation to do something for someone who has helped you in the past
- Cowed - to frighten with threats, violence, etc
- Troll - someone who writes negative and hostile comments on a website in order to provoke people
- Dynasty - a family whose members rule a country or region for a long period of time
- Articulate - able to express your thoughts, arguments, and ideas clearly and effectively
- Mess up - to make a mistake, or to do something badly
- Reflexive - a reflexive movement or action is one that you do without thinking
- Critic - a member of an opposition party whose job is to follow and comment on a particular government ministry
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Helter Skelter — On the legacy of Charles Manson"
- Helter Skelter - in a hurry and without planning or organization
- Legacy - something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
- Caution - a warning that you should be careful
- Convict - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- Diminish - to become less / to make something become less
- Profound - very great
- Quasi - used to show that something is almost, but not completely, the thing described
- Commune - a group of families or single people who live and work together sharing possessions and responsibilities
- Abuse - to treat someone in a cruel or violent way
- Intensifyi - to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this
- Counterculture - a way of life and set of attitudes that is deliberately different from the main culture in society
- Hippie - someone in the 1960s who was opposed to war and the traditional attitudes of society, and who showed this by having long hair and wearing very informal clothes
- Notoriety - a situation in which someone or something is famous for something bad
- Posh - looks expensive and attractive
- Slaughter - the violent killing of a large number of people
- Scrawled - to write something carelessly or in a hurry, so that it is difficult to read
- Paranoid - worrying that people do not like you and are trying to harm you, although you have no proof of this
- Delusion - an idea or belief that is not true
- Foment - to encourage people to have angry feelings or to protest or fight
- Gruesome - involving or describing death or injury in a very unpleasant way
- Spree - a short period that you spend doing a particular activity
- Acquaintance - someone you know a little, who is not a close friend
- Convicted - proved to be guilty of a crime by a court of law
- Capital punishment - the punishment of being legally killed
- Outlaw - to make something illegal
- Depravity - behaviour that is immoral or evil
- Notion - an opinion or belief, especially one that is wrong or silly
- Infamy - a reputation for something bad
- Antics - behaviour that is funny or silly in an enjoyable way
- Spawn - to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly
- Bigoted - someone who is bigoted has opinions that most people think are unreasonable, especially about politics, race, or religion, and refuses to consider other people’s opinions
- Mushroomed - to increase or develop very quickly
- Lapped up - to enjoy something and be keen to get more of it
- Indulging - to allow yourself to have or do something that you enjoy
- Apocalyptic - describing or expecting a time when very bad things will happen or the world will be destroyed
- Interprete - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Impending - an impending event or situation, especially an unpleasant one, is one that will happen very soon
- Renaissance - new interest in something that makes it popular again
- Vitriolic - vitriolic language or behaviour is cruel and full of hate
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Embolden - to give someone more confidence to do something
- Wink-and-nod - to signal that you agree to something, without leaving any record that you ever agreed to it
- Poignant - giving you feelings of sadness
- Pluralist - related to the idea that people can and should live together without fighting, despite differences in race, religion, culture, politics etc
- Taken for granted - to expect something always to happen or exist in a particular way, and to not think about any possible problems or difficulties
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