English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 14th October 2016

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Hai  Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 14th October 2016. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials. 

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Triumph of the troubadour"

• Triumph - a great victory or achievement
• Troubadour - poet and singer
• Sprung - to happen or appear somewhere suddenly or unexpectedly
• For instance - for example
  
• Awkward - difficult to deal with and embarrassing
• Astounding - very surprising or shocking
• Pedestrian - someone who is walking, especially in a town or city, instead of driving or riding
• Intended - aimed
• Justify - to show that there is a good reason for something, especially something that other people think is wrong
• Persisted - to continue to exist
• Genre - a particular style used in cinema, writing, or art, which can be recognized by certain features
• Oft - often
• Extensive - very large in amount
• Non-fiction - swriting that is about real people and events, not imaginary ones
• Sweepstakes - a competition for a prize, esp. for money, in which those who win are chosen by chance
• Idiosyncratic - unusual or strange
• Purist - someone who believes in and follows very traditional rules or ideas in a subject
• Aghast - shocked and upset
• Clinch - to manage to win or achieve something
• Chronicle - a written record of historical events
• Angst - a strong feeling of worry about what you should do, how you should behave, or what will happen in the future
• Counterculture - a way of life and set of attitudes that is deliberately different from the main culture in society
• Contemporary - alive or existing at the same time as a particular event or person
• Contradictory - if two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. are contradictory, they are very different from each other
• Merged - combined / joined together
• Sheer - completely
• Underrated - if a person or thing is underrated, especially a performer, writer, or sports player, most people do not recognize how good that person or thing really is
• Profoundly - extremely / greatly
• Odes - poems written about a particular person, thing, or event
• Closure - the feeling that an unpleasant experience has ended or been settled
• Subterranean - under the ground
• Reinvented - to change something that already exists and give it a different form or purpose
• Stir - to make someone think about something
• Plumbing - connecting
• Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something
• Solitary - tending to spend a lot of time alone
• Slain - killed in a violent way (in war)
• Awry - in the wrong position

Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Of politics and administration"

• Administration - the activities involved in managing a business, organization, or institution
• Bifurcation - to divide something into two parts
• Statehood - the status of a place as an independent country / state
• Commentary - a discussion of something such as an event or theory
• Geographically - relating to an area or place
• Alienation - the feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
• Intended - aimed to do something
• Subcommittee - a small group of people who are part of a larger committee and who meet to discuss one particular thing
• Draft - something such as a plan, letter, or drawing that may have changes made to it before it is finished
• Revenue - income from business activities or taxes
• Carved out - to successfully create or get something
• Monitoring - to regularly check something or watch someone in order to find out what is happening
• Bottom-up - starting with details rather than a general idea
• Stakeholder - a person or company that has invested in a business and owns part of it
• Morphed - to change from one thing into another by small and interconnected steps
• Spiralling - show a continuous and dramatic increase.
• Agitation - a feeling of being worried or upset
• Replication - the action of copying or reproducing something
• Hardly - only just / almost not
• Suffice - to be enough
• Redeploy - to move someone or something to a different place or a different job
• Incur - to lose money
• Expenditure - the total amount of money that a government or person spends
• Bureaucratic - involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes
• Road map - a plan or set of instructions that makes it easier for someone to do something

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