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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 23rd March 2018. Happy reading :)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "CA, Facebook & you"
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Wake-up call - a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave
- Press ahead - to continue doing something in a determined way, despite difficulties, opposition, or interruptions
- Robust - strong and successful
- Firm - a business or company
- Harvest - to collect or obtain something
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Whistle-blower - someone who reports dishonest or illegal activities within an organization to someone in authority
- Revelation - the process of letting people know or see something that was previously hidden or secret
- Warfare - the activity of fighting a war
- Alt-right - a group of people with various far-right and often racist opinions who are active especially online
- Sway - to influence or change someone’s opinion
- Undercover - working or done secretly in order to catch criminals, get secret information etc
- Dubious - not completely good, safe, or honest
- Honeytrap - an occasion when an attractive person tricks another person into revealing secret information or behaving in an illegal or immoral way
- Consent - permission to do something
- Tailoring - to make or prepare something following particular instructions
- Slander - the crime of saying something about someone that is not true and is likely to damage their reputation
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Potent - powerful, or effective
- Corrosive - causing gradual damage to something such as a society, an institution, or a relationship
- Cocktail - a combination of substances, especially ones that are harmful when used together
- Scrape - to use a computer program to copy data from a website
- Academic - relating to education, especially education in colleges and universities
- Apology - a statement that tells someone that you are sorry for doing something wrong or for causing a problem
- Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
- Brought to light - to cause something to be known
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Prickly - covered with sharp points that cut or sting
- Consent - permission to do something
- Rapid - happening, moving, or acting quickly
- Opt-out - to decide not to take part in something or to stop taking part in it
- Opt-in - to decide that you want to do something or be involved in something
- Implication - a possible effect or result
- Privacy - the freedom to do things without other people watching you or knowing what you are doing
- Legitimate - fair and reasonable
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Curbing misuse: on SC ruling on the anti-atrocities law"
- Curbing - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Atrocity - a cruel and violent act
- De-fang - make (something) harmless or ineffectual
- Safeguard - to protect something or someone from being harmed or having problems
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Oppressed - worried and uncomfortable
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Perception - a particular way of understanding or thinking about something
- Rampantly - in an uncontrolled way
- Harass - to keep annoying or upsetting someone
- Adversary - an enemy or opponent
- On the face of it - used when you are describing how a situation seems on the surface
- Invalidate - to make something such as a document, contract, or process no longer legally effective
- Precisely - exactly / clearly
- Anticipatory - relating to the feelings that you get when you are expecting something to happen
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Violate - to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Strike a balance (between something and something) - to accept neither of two extreme positions or things but find a solution that is reasonable and fair
- Grim - grim news, situations, or events are unpleasant and make you feel upset and worried
- Necessitate - to make something necessary
- Amend - to make changes to a document, law, agreement etc, especially in order to improve it
- Lackadaisical - doing something in a lazy or careless way that shows that you are not really interested in it
- Perpetrator - someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Scrutinise - to examine something very carefully
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Disempower - to reduce the amount of control that someone has over a situation or over their life
- Word of caution - a warning that you should be careful
- De-fang - to make someone or something less harmful
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