sponsored links
Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of Today's Hindu News Paper dated 24th November 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Politics and Padmavati"
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Curb - to control or limit something
- Free expression (freedom of expression) - the right to express your opinions
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Voluntarily - done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to do it
- Defer - to arrange for something to happen at a later time than you had planned
- Irrespective - despite a particular fact, situation, or quality
- Plays out - to develop or end in a particular way
- Conduct - behaviour
- Cynical - willing to let other people be harmed so that you can get an advantage
- Unmindful - not remembering, noticing, or being careful about something
- Fatwa - an official order by a Muslim religious leader
- Verse - a group of words or sentences that form one section of a poem or song
- Customs - a government department that collects taxes on goods that people bring into a country
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Detract from something - to make something seem less good, attractive, or important
- Resist - to oppose or fight against someone or something
- Extremist - someone who has beliefs or opinions that are considered to be extremely unreasonable by most people
- Benchmark - an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Row - a noisy argument or fight
- Threaten - to tell someone that you might or you will cause them harm, especially in order to make them do something
- Requisite - necessary for a particular purpose
- Perfunctory - done without much effort or interest
- Rally - to join other people in order to support someone or something
- Whip up - to encourage strong emotions or behaviour in people
- Absurd - completely stupid, unreasonable, or impossible to believe
- Take a cue from - to take notice of someone's words or behaviour so that you know what you should do
- Disregard - the attitude of someone who does not respect something or consider it important
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Mindful - careful about or conscious of something
- Foreboding - a strong unpleasant feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon
- Narrative - a story or a description of a series of events
- Uphold - to show that you support something such as an idea by what you say or do
- Intimidate - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Fury - a feeling of very strong anger that usually does not last very long
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Going universal — On Karnataka's universal health coverage"
- Universal - involving all the members of a group or society
- Road map - a plan or set of instructions that makes it easier for someone to do something
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Debate - a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
- Mandate - to give an official order or make a law stating that something must be done
- Transparency - an honest way of doing things that allows other people to know exactly what you are doing
- Charter - an official document describing the aims, rights, or principles of an organization
- Empower - to give someone more control over their life or more power to do something
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Imprisonment - the punishment of being put into prison
- Parity - a situation in which different people or things are equal
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Dropped the ball - to fail to do something that you are responsible for doing
- Devise - to invent a method of doing something
- Out-of-pocket - to have lost money as the result of a business deal
- Streamline - to improve a business, organization, process etc by making it more modern or simple
- Procurement - the process of buying supplies or equipment for a government department or company
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Fragmentation - the process of breaking into many pieces or separate parts
- Lose sight of - to forget an important fact, or to forget what your main aim is, because you are thinking too much about other things
- Infectious - an infectious disease is one that can spread from one person to another
- Non-communicable - not able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another
sponsored links
No comments:
Post a Comment