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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 24th September 2018. Happy reading :)
Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 23rd September 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The plane truth: on Rafale deal row"
- Plane - an aircraft with wings and at least one engine
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Clear the air - to discuss a problem or difficult situation with someone in order to make it better
- Heated - a heated discussion or argument is one in which people get angry and excited
- Claim - to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof
- Counter - something that you say to reply to a criticism or argument
- Broad - including many different things or people
- Grossly - extremely
- Overvalue - to give something a higher price than it should have
- Tainted - something that is tainted is spoilt by an unpleasant feature or quality that often makes people not want to be involved with it
- Crony - a friend or supporter, especially of someone powerful
- Capitalism - an economic system in which property, businesses, and industry are owned by individual people and not by the government
- Ammunition - bullets, bombs etc that can be fired from a weapon
- Defence - the system of weapons, equipment, and people that is used to protect a country
- Offset - to balance the effect of something, with the result that there is no advantage or disadvantage
- Squarely - in a clear and definite way
- Contradict - to say that the opposite of what someone has said is true
- Insist - to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- Manufacturer - a person or company that manufactures a product
- Aviation - the practice of flying planes
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Bolster - to make something stronger or more effective
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Ensue - to happen after something else, often as a result of it
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Merely - only / just
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Reaffirm - to formally and officially state something again
- Beg the question - to make you want to know the answer to a particular question
- Nudge - to make something move gradually or a little way in a particular direction
- Whisper - to say something very quietly so that other people cannot hear you
- Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
- Persist - to continue to do or say something in a determined way
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Headline-grabbing - reported as a very important story in the news
- Negotiation - formal discussions in which people or groups try to reach an agreement, especially in a business or political situation
- Clear the air - to discuss a problem or difficult situation with someone in order to make it better
- Briefing - a meeting or document in which people receive information or instructions
- Disclosure - the process of giving information to people, especially information that was secret
- Jeopardise - to risk damaging or destroying something important
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Modernisation - the process of starting to use the most recent methods, ideas, equipment, etc
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "On edge: on the volatility in Indian markets"
- On edge - nervous and unable to relax because you are worried
- Volatility - liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse
- Panic - a sudden strong feeling of fear or worry that makes you unable to think clearly or calmly
- Sell-off - a situation in which a business or part of a business is sold
- Indices - a plural of index
- Extraordinary - very unusual and surprising
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Non-banking financial company - financial institution that offer various banking services, but does not have a banking license
- Extreme - very great in degree
- Witness - to see something happen
- Steep - sudden
- Attribute - to believe that something is the result of a particular situation, event, or person’s actions
- Yield - to produce something
- Precursor - something that exists before something else, and is related to it or influences its development
- Adverse - negative, unpleasant, or harmful
- Liability - legal responsibility for causing damage or injury, or for paying something
- Scrip - extra shares that are given to someone who already has shares in a company, instead of a dividend
- Fuel - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Optimism - a tendency to be hopeful and to expect that good things will probably happen
- Warrant - to make an action seem reasonable or necessary
- Breadth - the distance from one side of an object to the other
- Midcap - used to describe a company whose shares have a middle-size total value
- Smallcap - a term used to classify companies with a relatively small market capitalization
- Replicate - to do or make something again in the same way as before
- Raise the alarm - to tell people about something dangerous that is happening
- Stretched - having difficulty doing everything that you should because you lack the necessary time, money, people, or equipment
- Valuation - the process of deciding how much money something is worth
- Depreciate - to become less valuable than before
- Fiscal deficit - a fiscal deficit occurs when a government's total expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates, excluding money from borrowings
- The run-up to something - the period of time just before an important event
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
Read Previous Posts of THE HINDU English Vocabulary from here
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