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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 27th December 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Change & continuity: what lies ahead for Rupani, Thakur"
- Criterion - a standard that is used for judging something or for making a decision about something
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Concede - to admit that something is true
- Wrest - to get land, power, or possessions from someone, usually by fighting
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Deputy - someone whose job is the second most important in a department or organization
- Allegiance - strong loyalty to a person, group, idea, or country
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Groundwork - work that you do in order to prepare for something
- Disaffection - the state of no longer feeling loyal towards a group or organization
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Out of contention - not able to achieve or win something
- Vacate - to leave a room, seat, or house so that it is available for someone else to use
- Opt for - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Evidently - used for saying that something is obvious
- Interprete - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Detractor - someone who publicly criticizes someone or something
- Verdict - an opinion that you have or a decision that you make
- Constituency - a division of a country that elects a representative to a parliament
- Ideological - related to a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based
- Mentor - an experienced person who helps someone who has less experience, especially in their job
- Endorsement - an occasion when someone gives official or public support to a particular person or thing
- Pro-active - taking action and making changes before they need to be made, rather than waiting until problems develop
- Backing - supporting
- Likely - probably going to happen, or probably true
- Freer - free
- Incumbency - an official position
- Retaining - to keep or continue to have something
- Re-gaining - to get something again that you lost
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "After the sanctions: on North Korea"
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Diplomacy - the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations
- Disarmament - a process by which a country reduces or gets rid of its weapons or armed forces
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Unanimously - without opposition; with the agreement of all people involved
- Predictable - if something is predictable, it happens in the way that you would expect
- Mounting - increasing, especially in a way that makes a situation worse
- Stand-off - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Echoing - repeating
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Refined - a natural substance that is refined is now pure because other things have been removed from it
- Import - a product from another country, that is bought with money from your country
- Expulsion - an occasion when someone is officially forced to leave an organization or activity permanently because of their bad behaviour
- Crippling - causing severe damage or problems
- Imbroglio - a difficult, complicated, or embarrassing situation
- Destabilising - to cause problems for a country, government, or person in authority so that they become less effective
- Counterproductive - having the opposite result to the one you intended
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Ballistic missile - a missile with a high, arching trajectory, which is initially powered and guided but falls under gravity on to its target
- Sophisticated - complicated and advanced in design
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Warhead - the front part of a bomb or missile that explodes
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Exert - to use influence, authority, or power in order to affect or achieve something
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Detonate - to explode, or to make something such as a bomb explode
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Scathing - criticizing someone or something in a very strong way
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Distrust - to not trust someone or something
- Redouble - to make something much more than before; to increase something
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Lobby - to try to persuade a politician, the government, or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed
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