English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were No Editorials in The Hindu on 17th April 2016
Topic 1 : "Country without a pause"
Topic 2 : "Chew on this: the risks of smokeless tobacco"
- Closed-door meeting - Not open or accessible to the public (held in privacy)
- Office-bearer - a person holding a position of authority in an organization
- Legislatures - the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws
- Advocated - publicly recommended or supported
- Manifesto - a public declaration of policy and aims, especially one issued before an election by a political party or candidate
- Evolve - develop slowly (step by step)
- Expenditure - the action of spending funds
- Impart - make (information) known
- Stability - a situation in which something is not likely to change
- Simultaneity - the property of two events happening at the same time
- Populism - the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Code of conduct - a set of rules about how to behave and do business with other people
- Firmly - forcefully
- Inkling - a feeling that something is true or likely to happen, although you are not sure
- Mandating - giving (someone) authority to act in a certain way
- Square up - assume the attitude of a person about to fight
- Mop up something - to finish the last part of a job after most of it has been completed
- Untenable - not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection
- Militate against something - to make something less likely to happen or succeed
- Partisan - a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person
- Inhibiting - to prevent someone from doing something by making them feel nervous or embarrassed
- Envisaged - to imagine or expect something in the future (especially something good)
- Persuade - to make someone to believe something
- Sporadic - happening sometimes (not regular or continuous)
- Overlapping - partly coincide in time
- Rejig - organize (something) differently / rearrange
- Aspirant - a person who has ambitions to achieve something
Topic 2 : "Chew on this: the risks of smokeless tobacco"
- Chew - to crush food into smaller, softer pieces with the teeth so that it can be swallowed
- Chew on something - to think about something carefully for a long time, before making a decision about it
- Consumption - to eat something
- Ingredients - main part of something (especially food)
- Besides - in addition to / also
- Areca nut - suparee
- Sidestepped - avoid something
- Sachet - a small sealed bag or packet containing a small quantity of something
- Rampant - (of something bad) getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way
- Surrogate - replacing something else
- Mockery - the act of making fun of someone or something
- Amendment - a minor change or addition to improve something
- Contravention - to do something that a law or rule does not allow (to break a rule / law)
- Convention - an agreement between states covering particular matters
- Monograph - a long article on a particular subject (detailed written study)
- Carcinogenic - something that causes cancer
- Cunning - clever
- Amend - make minor changes to something
- Alarming - causing worry or fear
- Lancet - a small knife with two cutting edges and a sharp point
- Oral - relating to the mouth
- Diagnosed - identify the nature of an illness by examination of the symptoms
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