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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 16th December 2017. Happy reading :)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Stalemate at WTO: On U.S. obstructionism"
- Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
- Obstructionism - actions or behaviour that is intended to slow down or stop the progress of something, especially in a parliament
- Worsen - to become worse, or to make something worse
- Developing countries - countries that are poor and do not have much industrial development.
- Biennial - a biennial event happens once every two years
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Offensive - unpleasant or insulting, and likely to make people upset or embarrassed
- Defensive - used to protect someone or something against attack
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Stockpiling - to collect large amounts of things that may be needed
- Thwart - to prevent someone from doing something that they want to do
- Fast-track - a way of achieving something more quickly than usual
- Rift - a disagreement between two people or groups
- Apparent - easy to see or understand
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done or that need to be thought about or solved
- Contend - to compete against someone, for example for a victory or for power
- Presumably - used for saying that you think something is true based on what you know, although you are not really certain
- Per capita - based on calculations that show the average amount for each person affected
- Trade-distorting - used to describe a tax or action that changes the normal characteristics of trade
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Disdain - the feeling that someone or something is not important and does not deserve any respect
- Multilateral - involving three or more groups, especially the governments of three or more countries
- Vacuum - a lack of something
- 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
- Appellate - relating to a legal appeal
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Poverty - a situation in which someone does not have enough money to pay for their basic needs
- Multi-pronged - having several aspects or elements
- Sovereign - having the highest power or being completely independent
- Cure - a medicine or treatment that makes someone who is ill become healthy
- Enhanced - made better
- Oversight - the job of checking that a process or system is working well
- Diagnose - to find out what physical or mental problem someone has by examining them
- Offset - to balance the effect of something, with the result that there is no advantage or disadvantage
- Nutrition - food considered as something that keeps you healthy
- Malnutrition - a medical condition in which you are weak or ill because you do not eat enough or do not eat enough of the right foods
- Prisoner-of-war - someone, usually a soldier, who is held as a prisoner by the enemy during a war
- Inmate - someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital, or other institution
- Ration - the food given to someone at one time, esp. to soldiers
- Counterpart - a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization
- Deficiency - a lack of something that your body needs
- Piled up - to put a large number of things on top of each other
- Vicious - extremely violent
- Appetite - the natural feeling of wanting to eat
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Small-scale - smaller or less important than other things of the same kind
- Inaction - the failure to do anything, especially when you should do something
- Extensive - very large in amount or degree
- Contract - to catch or become ill with a disease
- Intake - the amount of something that you eat or drink
- Fine-tune - to make small changes to something in order to make it as good or as effective as possible
- Precisely - exactly / clearly
- No-brainer - a question or problem that is very easy to deal with
- Constitute - to form or make something
- Straightforward - clear and honest
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