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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 1st November 2018. Happy reading :)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Ending impunity: on Hashimpura massacre"
- Impunity - freedom from any risk of being punished for doing something wrong or bad
- Massacre - the action of killing of a lot of people
- Retrieve - to get something back, especially something that is not easy to find
- Convict - to prove in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Personnel - the people who work for a company or organization, or who are members of a military force
- Provincial - of or relating to the parts of a country outside the capital or the large cities
- Armed - involving the use of weapons
- Constabulary - the police of a particular place
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Sentencing - the system for punishing people who have been found guilty in a court of law
- Seemingly - in a way that appears to have a particular quality, even though this is probably not true
- Perfunctory - done without much effort or interest
- Abduct - to take someone away from their home, family etc using force
- Canal - an artificial river
- Communal - relating to a particular community
- Rifle - a large gun with a long barrel that you hold against your shoulder to fire
- Rioter - one of a group of people who meet in a public place and behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way, often as a protest
- Establish - to discover, prove, or decide that something is true
- Charge sheet - an official record in which the police write down the names of people they have accused of a crime
- Battalion - a large group of soldiers that consists of three or more smaller groups called companies
- Prosecution - the process or act of accusing someone of a crime and asking a court of law to judge them
- Backed - supported
- Testimony - a formal statement about something that you saw, know, or experienced, usually given in a court of law
- Survive - to continue to exist, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation
- Waterbody - a sea or a reservoir
- Acquit - to state officially that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Accused - a specific person that is accused of a crime in a court of law
- Evidence - facts or physical signs that help to prove something
- En masse - all together as a group
- Acquittal - an official judgment in a court of law that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Travesty - a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it should be or because it seems very unfair
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Nail - to catch someone, especially when they are doing something wrong, or to make it clear that they are guilty
- Weed out - to remove a person or thing that is not suitable or good enough, especially from a group or collection
- Not content with - used to say that someone is not satisfied with something which most people would consider to be enough or too much, but wants or does more
- Merely - only / just
- Plea - a statement that someone makes in a court of law to say whether they are guilty of a crime or not
- Pinpoint - to discover or explain exactly what something is
- Occupant - someone who uses a room, building, area of land, seat, bed, vehicle or other place during a period of time
- Culpability - responsibility for doing something bad or illegal
- Custodial - relating to putting or keeping someone in prison
- Unconscionable - more than a reasonable or acceptable level or amount
- Habituated - very familiar with something as a result of experiencing it regularly
- Reassurance - the act of making someone feel less worried about something
- Prejudice - an unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially the feeling of not liking a particular group of people
- Victory - the fact of winning a competition or battle, or an occasion when someone wins
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Firebrand - someone who has strong feelings, especially about politics, and wants to change things or encourage other people to feel the same
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Runoff - a second election or competition that is organized when the first one does not have a winner
- Left-of-centre - used to describe a political belief that contains some socialist ideas but is not extreme
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Evoke - to bring a particular emotion, idea, or memory into your mind
- Mismanagement - the process of managing something badly
- Crack down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- Resonate - to produce an emotional effect on someone
- Regressive - relating to behaviour that is not responsible or controlled, or is like that of a child
- Outburst - a sudden spoken expression of a strong feeling, especially anger
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Denigrate - to criticize something in a way that shows you think it has no value at all
- Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
- Pollster - a person or organization that prepares a poll
- Pundit - someone who is an expert in a subject, and is often asked to talk to the public about that subject
- Baffle - if a problem, someone’s behaviour etc baffles you, you cannot understand it or solve it
- Professed - admitting publicly that you have a particular feeling or belief
- Dictatorship - government by someone who takes power by force and does not allow elections
- Soar - to quickly increase to a high level
- Meteoric - becoming very successful very quickly
- Comprehend - to understand something
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Legacy - something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Alleviate - to make something less painful, severe, or serious
- Descend - to go or come down
- Recession - a period when trade and industry are not successful and there is a lot of unemployment
- Far-reaching - affecting a lot of people or things in an important way
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Toppling - to make someone in authority lose their power
- Elite - a small group of people who have a lot of advantages and keep the most power and influence
- Culminate - to happen or exist as the final result of a process or situation
- Controversial - a controversial subject, opinion, or decision is one that people disagree about or do not approve of
- Impeachment - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job
- Money-laundering - to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal businesses
- Succour - to help someone
- Vulnerable - a thing, person, or place that is vulnerable is easy to attack
- Backlash - a strong, negative, and often angry reaction to something that has happened, especially a political or social change
- Extensive - very large in amount or degree
- Exploit - to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself
- Disdain - the feeling that someone or something is not important and does not deserve any respect
- Accord - a formal agreement between countries or groups
- Intact - not harmed, damaged, or lacking any parts as a result of something that has happened
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