English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 25th October 2016

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Hai  Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 25th October 2016. Happy reading :)

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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The perils of plastic"

• The perils of something - danger or problems connected with a particular thing / activity
• Breach - an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship
• Wake-up call - a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave
• Fraudulently - dishonestly and illegally
• Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
• Acknowledge - to accept or admit that something exists, is true, or is real
• Initiate -  to make something start
  
• Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
• Galling - annoying
• Urging - to advise someone very strongly about what action they should take
• Accord - to treat someone specially
• Infiltrate - to secretly join an organization or go into a place in order to find out information about it or damage it
• Malware - software such as a virus that is designed to damage or destroy information on a computer
• Third-party - a third person or organization less directly involved in a matter than the main people or organizations that are involved
• Vendor - a company or person that sells a particular product or service
• Coordinating - to make many different things work effectively as a whole
• Forensic - relating to the use of scientific methods to solve crimes and to find out who committed them
• Audit - an official examination of the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
• Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
• At stake - at risk
• In concert - together
• Harness - to control something
• Financial inclusion - the delivery of FINANCIAL services at affordable costs to the sections of disadvantaged and low income groups
• Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
• Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
• Evasion - the practice of avoiding doing something that you should do
• Context - situation
• Instructive - giving useful information about something
• Clogging - to slow down progress or an activity
• Unaware - not realizing that something exists or is happening
• Catastrophic - causing a lot of damage, or making a lot of people suffer
• Embraced - to accept and include something
• The onus is on someone to do something - if the onus is on someone to do something, it is their responsibility or duty to do it
• Integrate - to connect or combine two or more things so that together they form an effective unit or system
• Inter-generational - relating to more than one generation
• Legacy - something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
• Seamless - changing or continuing very smoothly and without stopping
• Coordinated - to organize the different parts of a job or plan so that the people involved work together effectively
• Widespread -  existing or happening in many places and/or among many people
• Reveal - make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others.
• Sophisticated - complicated and advanced
• Gestate - develop over a long period.
• Manifest - to show something clearly, through signs or actions
• Can ill-afford something - used for saying that someone should definitely not do something because it will cause problems
• Complacent - too confident and relaxed because you think you can deal with something easily, even though this may not be true
• Band-aid - a temporary way of dealing with a problem that will not really solve it
• Reappraise - to examine and judge something or someone again
• Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
• Promptly - immediately
• Shortcoming - a fault or problem that makes someone or something less effective

Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Bird flu and what we must do"

• Flu - an infectious disease that makes you hot and cold, tired and weak
• Bird flu - a type of flu that affects chickens and some other birds and animals and can also infect humans
• Strain - pressure caused by a difficult situation
• Avian - relating to birds
• Influenza - flu
• Capable - able to do something
• Inflicting - to cause something unpleasant to happen
• Poultry - birds such as chickens that are used for meat or eggs
• Scare -  to feel frightened
• Elsewhere - other places
• Triggered - started (something bad)
• Painted stork - a type of bird
• Containment - the process of controlling a situation that could become harmful or dangerous
• Formulate - to develop a plan, system, or proposal carefully, thinking about all of its details
• Husbandry - the activity of farming and caring for animals
• Dairying - he business of producing, storing, and distributing milk and its products.
• Fisheries - a place where fish are reared for commercial purposes
• Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
• Preventive - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
• Outbreak - the sudden start of war, disease, violence etc
• Compensating - to pay someone money because they have suffered an injury or loss
• Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
• Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
• Endemic - (a disease or a condition) regularly found and very common among a particular group or in a particular area
• Mutate - to change from one thing or type of thing into another
• Vigilant - watching a person or situation very carefully so that you will notice any problems or signs of danger immediately
• Monitoring - to regularly check something in order to find out what is happening
• Overstate - to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is
• Migratory - having the characteristic of moving regularly to another place
• Waterfowl - a bird that lives or swims on water
• Waterbody - a body of water forming a physiographical feature (sea or a reservoir)
• Combat - fight
• Apex - the most important or successful
• Alacrity - quickly and with enthusiasm
• Apparatus - a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose
• Sound the alarm - to tell people about something dangerous that is happening
• Imminent - coming or likely to happen very soon
• Impact -  an effect, or an influence
• Quell - to stop something, especially by using force

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