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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 28th December 2017. Happy reading :)
Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the HINDU News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Unseemly spat: on the Kulbhushan Jadhav reunion"
- Unseemly - unseemly behaviour is embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Spat - a short argument
- Reunion - a situation in which people meet each other again after a period of time when they have been separated
- Step back - to stop for a moment in order to consider something
- Accusatory - intended to show someone that you think they have done something wrong
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Adhere to - to obey a rule, law, agreement etc
- Norms - standards of behaviour that are accepted in a particular society
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Espionage - attempts to discover your enemy’s political, military, or industrial secrets using secret methods
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Deteriorate - to become worse
- On several counts - on a number of ways
- Trial - the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone is guilty or innocent
- Sham - something that people pretend is good, serious, or honest but is really not
- Consular - relating to an official chosen by a government to live in a foreign city, in order to take care of people from the official's own country who travel or live there, and to protect the trade interests of that government
- Execution - the act of killing a person as a punishment for a crime
- Humanitarian - relating to efforts to help people who are living in very bad conditions and are suffering
- Gaggle - a group of people, especially a noisy and uncontrolled group
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Hurled - to shout at someone in a very angry way
- Undignified - embarrassing or silly, in a way that will make people not respect you
- Crass - stupid and offensive because of not being sensitive to other people’s feelings
- Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
- Frisking - ] to search someone with your hands in order to see if they are carrying anything illegal
- Attire - the clothes that someone is wearing
- Obscure - to cover something so that it cannot be seen
- Egregious - extremely bad
- Mandate - to give official permission for something to happen
- Denominational - relating to a particular religious group
- Tinge - a small amount of a colour, feeling, or quality
- Summoning - to officially order someone to come to a place, especially a court of law
- Diplomacy - the ability to deal with people in a sensitive way that does not upset or offend them
- Coerce - to persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do
- Imprudence - unwise, by failing to consider the likely results of your actions
- Face-saver - something that you do in order to stop people losing respect for you
- Counterproductive - having the opposite result to the one you intended
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The diagnostic lens: on encephalitis"
- Diagnostic - used for finding out what physical or mental problem someone has
- Encephalitis - a very serious disease affecting your brain that is caused by an infection
- Inflammatory - causing or related to swelling and pain in the body
- Recurring - happening again, especially several times
- Outbreak - the sudden start of war, disease, violence etc
- Toxin - a poisonous substance that causes disease
- Fatal - with very serious negative effects
- Dysfunction - any medical condition in which a part of your body does not work normally
- Scourge - something that causes a lot of trouble or harm
- Scrub typhus - a rickettsial disease transmitted to humans by mites and found in parts of eastern Asia
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Lychee - a small round white fruit
- Emaciated - extremely thin because of serious illness or lack of food
- Symptom - a sign that someone has an illness
- Incidence - the number of cases of an illness or a medical condition in a particular place, group, or situation
- Forefront - a leading or important position
- Persist - to continue to do or say something in a determined way
- Archaic - old and no longer used
- Relic - something such as a system or rule that remains from an earlier time or situation
- Acute - very serious or severe
- Diagnosis - a statement about what disease someone has, based on examining them
- Pinpoint - to discover or explain exactly what something is
- Fixation - a very strong interest in something that prevents you from paying attention to anything else
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