English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Managing the Cauvery dispute"
Topic 2 : "Putin tightens his grip"
- Cauvery - Kaveri river
- Dispute - a disagreement or argument
- Judicial - involving a law court
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Resolves - to solve or end a problem or difficulty:
- Executive - someone in a high position
- Constitute - if several people or things constitute something, they combine to form it
- Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
- Prescribed - decided by a law or a rule
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- Award - a judgment given by a court of law
- Irrigation - to supply land with water
- Agronomist - the study of crops and the types of soil they grow in
- Basin - the area of land from which streams run into a river, lake, or sea
- Formulate - to develop a plan, system, or proposal carefully, thinking about all of its details
- Distress - an unpleasant and difficult situation caused by a lack of basic things
- Exposes - to make something publicly known
- Helplessness - unable to do anything to help yourself or anyone else
- Inter-State - existing or taking place between states
- Instance - an example of something happening
- Pave the way - to create a situation that makes it possible or easier for something to happen
- Interim - temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists
- Gazette - an official newspaper that publishes lists of people in government, legal, military, or university jobs
- Significant - very important / noticeable
- Nudging - to push something or someone gently
- Framework - a system of rules, laws, agreements etc that establish the way that something operates in business, politics, or society
- Equitable - fair and reasonable because everyone is treated in the same way
- Supervisory - in charge of people or activities
- Quantum - the smallest amount or unit of something
- Apart from - except for someone or something
- Adjudication - to make an official decision about a problem or disagreement
- Accommodation - a change in behaviour or attitude that helps people work together or end a disagreement
- Yield - to make a profit
- Take a hard look at something - to examine something very carefully in order to improve it in the future
- Cultivation - the use of land for growing crops or plants
- Water-intensive - involving a lot of water
- Surfacing - raising / appearing
Topic 2 : "Putin tightens his grip"
- Tighten your grip on something - to begin to control someone or something more strictly
- Outcome - the final result of a process / activity
- In question - if something is in question, there are doubts about it
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Attrition - the process of making an enemy physically and mentally weaker by continuously attacking them
- Neighbourhood - the people who live near each other
- Sanction - an official order to stop communication, trade, etc with a country that has broken international law
- Contracted - to become smaller in amount or quantity
- Shrink - to become smaller in size
- Conventional - of the usual, traditional, or accepted type, instead of being new and different
- Wisdom - the ability to make good decisions based on knowledge and experience
- Hardship - something that makes your life more difficult or unpleasant
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Incumbency - an official position
- Retained - to keep or continue to have something
- Partly - mostly or usually
- Hardly - only just; almost not
- Hindered - to stop someone or something from making progress or developing
- Electorate - all the people who are allowed to vote in an election
- Protest - a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition
- Barred - to officially say that someone must not do something
- Anarchic - not showing respect for official or accepted rules, behaviour, organizations, leaders, etc
- Era - a period of time that has a particular quality or character
- Prompting - the action of encouraging or reminding someone to do something
- Stick by someone - to continue to support someone who is in a difficult situation
- Credited someone with something - to say or believe that someone is responsible for a particular achievement
- Stable - not changing frequently and not likely to suddenly become worse
- Under his watch - under his control
- Self-imposed - self-imposed rules, punishments etc are ones that you have chosen for yourself
- Strategic - carefully planned in order to achieve a particular goal
- Retreat - to change your ideas, opinion, or decision because of criticism or opposition from other people
- Annexation - to take control of a country or region by force
- Combative - ready to fight, argue with, or oppose someone
- Elsewhere - some other place
- Persist - to continue to exist
- Muscular - very strong and attractive
- To pay a heavy price - to experience the bad result of something you have done
- Shambles - something that is very badly organized and that does not operate effectively
- In the wake of something - if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and often because of it
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Stormy - involving a lot of anger or arguments
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