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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 18th February 2019. You can download the pdf version of this vocabulary from below given link. Happy reading :)
Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 17th February 2019 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Strange emergency: Donald Trump's plan to build the Mexico border wall"
- Emergency - an unexpected situation involving danger in which immediate action is necessary
- Undermine - to make something or someone become gradually less effective, confident, or successful
- Democracy - a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them
- Trivial - not very important, serious, or valuable
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Exigency - something difficult that you must deal with as part of a situation or job
- Opt for - to make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities
- Invasion - a situation in which a large number of people or things come to a place at the same time, especially in an annoying way
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Strident - holding firm opinions or beliefs and tending to express them frequently, in a way that offends some people
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Federal - a federal country or system is one in which individual states make their own laws, but a national government is responsible for areas such as defence and foreign policy
- Furlough - a period of time during which someone is allowed to be away from a job or the armed forces
- Congressional - relating to US congress
- Appropriation - the action of taking something, especially when you have no right to take it
- Soared - to quickly increase to a high level
- Back down - to stop asking for something, or to stop saying that you will do something, because a lot of people oppose you
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Beg the question - to make you want to know the answer to a particular question
- Devote - to spend a lot of time or effort doing something
- Allude - to mention someone or something in an indirect way
- Migration - the process by which people or animals migrate to another place or country
- Engulf - to cover or surround something in a way that harms or destroys it
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Pander - to do or say what someone wants in order to please them, even though you know it is not right
- Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
- Wobbly - moving from side to side in a way that is not steady
- Status quo - the present situation, or the way that things usually are
- Chutzpah - strong confidence in yourself so that you can say or do rude or shocking things without becoming ashamed or embarrassed
- Coexistence - a situation in which people live together, or things exist together, at the same time or in the same place
- Pluralism - the idea that people can and should live together without fighting, despite differences in race, religion, culture, politics etc
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Delhi dilemma: Centre vs State"
- Dilemma - a situation in which you have to make a difficult decision
- Inherent - an inherent quality is a basic or essential feature that gives something its character
- Acrimony - angry and unpleasant words and feelings
- Framework - a set of principles, ideas etc that you use when you are forming your decisions and judgments
- Abide by - to follow a rule, decision, or instruction
- Uphld - if a court of law upholds something such as a claim, it says that it is correct
- Prosecutor - a lawyer whose job is to prove in court that someone accused of a crime is guilty
- Deploy - if a government or army deploys soldiers or weapons, it uses them
- Imply - if one thing implies another thing, the other thing is likely to exist or be true
- Inapplicable - not relevant
- Council - the elected officials who govern a local area such as a city or county: can be followed by a singular or plural verb
- Dispute - a serious disagreement, especially one between groups of people that lasts for a long time
- Prevail - to exist at a particular time or in a particular situation
- On the other hand - used for giving two different opinions about something
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Federalism - the system of giving power to a central authority
- Constituent - one of the parts that form something when they combine
- Regulate - to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
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