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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 10th October 2018. Happy reading :)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Target 1.5: tackling global warming"
- Tackling - to try to deal with something or someone
- Global warming - a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by gases such as carbon dioxide that are collecting in the air around the earth and stopping heat escaping into space
- Run out - to finish, use, or sell all of something, so that there is none left
- Intergovernmental - between two or more governments
- Consensus - a generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people
- Reversal - the act of changing or making something change to its opposite
- Greenhouse gas - a gas that causes the greenhouse effect, especially carbon dioxide
- Emission - the act of sending out gas, heat, light, etc
- Severe - causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; very serious
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Accumulating - to get more and more of something over a period of time
- Follow-up - to do something in addition to what you have already done, in order to be certain of achieving your aim
- Extreme - very great in degree
- Pull back - to decide not to do something that will probably have bad effects
- Beyond - outside the range or limits of a subject, quality, or activity
- Pursue - to follow a course of activity
- Intensity - strength
- Severity - the seriousness of something bad or unpleasant
- Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die
- Coastal - land beside a sea
- Submergence - to go completely under water
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Moderate - neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength
- Degradation - the process of changing into a worse condition
- Worsen - to become worse, or to make something worse
- Prognosis - a statement about what is likely to happen in a particular situation
- Heatwave - a continuous period of very hot weather, especially when this is unusual
- Pointer - something that shows the development or progress of a situation
- Fast-track - a way of achieving something more quickly than usual
- Pledge - to promise seriously and publicly to do something
- Scale-up - to make something larger in size, amount etc than it used to be
- Cutting down - to reduce an amount of something
- Conservation - the careful use of energy, water, and other resources, so that they are not wasted or lost
- Afforestation - the process of planting many trees on an area of land
- Carbon sink - an ocean, forest, or other area of vegetation (=plants and trees) that helps to protect the environment by taking in large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
- Crucial - something that is crucial is extremely important because it has a major effect on the result of something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Arrest the exodus in Gujarat"
- Exodus - a situation in which a lot of people leave a place or activity at the same time
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Horrific - so shocking that it upsets you
- Toddler - a very young child who is learning how to walk
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Revenge - something that you do to hurt or punish someone because they have hurt you or someone else
- On account of - because of someone or something
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Discontent - the unhappy feeling that you have when you are not satisfied with something
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Survey - an examination of opinions, behaviour, etc., made by asking people questions
- Disquiet - a feeling of being very worried or nervous
- Bubble up - to increase and become more obvious
- Resentment - an angry unhappy feeling that you have when you think you have been treated unfairly or without enough respect
- Mandatory - ordered by a law or rule
- Hire - to pay someone to work for you, especially for a short time
- Workforce - the total number of people who work in a particular company, industry, or area
- Domicile - the place where a person lives
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Greasing the wheels - to facilitate, ease, or aid something or some process
- Enterprise - a business company or organization
- Looming - (of something unwanted or unpleasant) about to happen soon and causing worry
- Holistic - thinking about the whole of something, and not just dealing with particular aspects
- Incentive - something that makes you want to do something or to work harder, because you know that you will benefit by doing this
- Merely - only / just
- No exception - if someone or something is no exception, they are the same as all others so they can be included in a general statement
- Nativist - a person who supports the idea of nativism (= the idea that people who were born in a country are more important than people who have come to the country from somewhere else)
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Resentment - an angry unhappy feeling that you have when you think you have been treated unfairly or without enough respect
- Paucity - a small amount of something that is not enough
- Neither...nor - used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas
- Concerned - involved in something, or affected by something
- Apart from - except for someone or something
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