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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 March 2018. Happy reading :)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Karnataka elections: homestretch before Lok Sabha 2019"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Karnataka elections: homestretch before Lok Sabha 2019"
- Homestretch - the last part of a race or other activity
- Preparedness - the state of being ready for something
- Contain - to keep something within limits
- In the face of - in a situation where you have to deal with something unpleasant or difficult
- Defensive - intended or used for protecting a place during an attack
- Savvy - the ability to understand and judge people and situations well
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- Faction - a small group within a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions from the rest
- -ridden - full of something unpleasant or bad
- Resist - to oppose or fight against someone or something
- Polarisation - to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups
- Witness - to see something happen
- Face-off - if people or groups face off, they compete or fight with each other
- Mounted - riding on a horse
- Warhorse - someone who has a lot of experience of dealing with difficult problems, for example an experienced politician or soldier
- Asset - a major benefit
- Arguably - used for stating your opinion or belief, especially when you think other people may disagree
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Handpicked - chosen very carefully for a particular purpose
- Meddle - to become involved in a situation that you have no right to be involved in, in a way that is annoying
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Aid - to help something to happen more easily or with fewer problems
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Unveil - the act of officially announcing something such as a plan or a new product that was previously a secret
- Irrespective - despite a particular fact, situation, or quality
- Reap dividends - to get something good as a result of something that you do
- Agitation - a feeling of being worried or upset
- Refurbish - renovate and redecorate
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Run-up - to make something very quickly
- Dampener - depressing
- Morale - the amount of enthusiasm that a person or group of people feel about their situation at a particular time
- Booster - something that makes you feel more confident
- Nose ahead - to get into a position that is slightly in front of someone or something else
Hindu Editorial Topic 21 : "Russia, a rogue nation ?"
- Rogue - someone who is dishonest
- Negotiating table - a time, place, or situation in which people discuss something in order to try to reach an agreement
- Expel - to officially force someone to leave a place or organization
- Diplomat - an official whose job is to represent their government in a foreign country
- Suspicion - a feeling that someone has done something wrong
- Nerve agent - a chemical that affects the nervous system by disrupting the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs
- Defector - a person who leaves his or her own country or group to join an opposing one
- Expulsion - an occasion when someone is officially forced to leave an organization or activity permanently
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Purge - to remove people suddenly or violently from an organization, group etc
- Cold War - the unfriendly relations that existed between the Soviet Union and the West from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Alleged - claimed to be true, even though this has not been proved
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Arming - to provide people with weapons
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Reclaim - to get something back that someone has taken from you
- Inconsistent - not always behaving in the same way or producing the same results
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- Multilateral - involving more than two groups or countries
- Scarcely - only just
- Apparently - based only on what you have heard, not on what you are certain is true
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Hawk - a politician who prefers using military force to more peaceful methods
- Collude - to work secretly with someone to do something dishonest
- Naive - lack of experience of life and tends to trust other people and believe things too easily
- Undermining - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Manoeuvre - a clever or dishonest action that you do to get something that you want
- Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Contrary - completely different or opposed to something else
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Corollary - something that will also be true if a particular idea or statement is true, or something that will also exist if a particular situation exists
- Eschew - to avoid doing something, especially for moral reasons
- Subversion - the action of trying to destroy a government or an established belief, especially by attacking it indirectly in written or spoken material
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