English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 20th November 2016 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Getting real on climate"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rising dollar, falling rupee"
- Getting real - to understand the true facts of a situation and not hope for what is impossible
- Emphasis - the particular importance or attention that is given to something
- Greenhouse gas - a gas that causes the greenhouse effect, especially carbon dioxide
- Emission - an amount of gas, heat, light, etc. that is sent out
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Untenable - impossible to continue because of serious problems, opposition, or criticism
- Cumulative - developing or increasing gradually as a result of more and more additions
- Renege - to decide not to do something that you promised to do
- Vulnerable - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
- Presidency - the job of being president, or the period of time that someone has this job
- Proclamation - an official announcement, especially about something important, or something that affects everyone
- Intended - an intended target, victim etc is the one that an action is aimed at or trying to reach
- Forge - to work hard to achieve something
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Accumulated - to get more and more of something over a period of time
- Mobilisation- act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency
- Mitigation - a reduction in the harmful effects of something
- Adaptation - the process of changing something so that it can be used for a different purpose
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve
- Per capita - based on calculations that show the average amount for each person affected
- Signatory - a person or organization that has signed an official agreement
- Provisions - plans or preparation for future needs
- Monitor - to regularly check something to find out what is happening
- Convention - a large formal meeting of people who do a particular job or have a similar interest
- Intergovernmental - involving governments of different countries
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Pegged - to keep the amount of something at a particular level
- Pledge - a serious or formal promise
- Forecast - to say what you expect to happen in the future
- Accumulate - to increase in quantity over a period of time
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something
- Spur - something that encourages someone to do something
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about (local)
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Rising dollar, falling rupee"
- Soared - to rise very quickly to a high level
- Spur - to encourage an activity or development
- Inflation - a general, continuous increase in prices
- Prospect - the idea of something that will or might happen in the future
- Updraught - an upward movement
- Streak - to move somewhere extremely quickly, usually in a straight line
- Congressional - relating to the US Congress
- Testimony - evidence that something is true
- Appreciable - if an amount or change is appreciable, it is large or noticeable enough to have an important effect
- Acceleration - the increase in the speed at which something happens
- Projection - a calculation or guess about the future based on information that you have
- Deregulation - to remove national or local government controls or rules from a business or other activity
- Backing - support
- Initiatives - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem
- Optimism - the quality of being full of hope
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters, especially taxes
- Reflate - to improve the economy of a country by increasing the amount of money that people are earning and spending in the country
- Benchmark- an amount, level, standard etc that you can use for judging how good or bad other things are
- Anticipation - a feeling of excitement about something enjoyable that is going to happen soon
- Slump - sudden fall in price
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Inflict - to force someone to experience something very unpleasant
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Exacerbated - to make something that is already bad even worse
- Denomination - a unit of value, especially of money
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Equity - the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders
- Offload - to get rid of something that you do not want by giving it to someone else
- Demonetisation - the process to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Infusing - to give someone or something a particular quality
- Surge - a sudden increase in something such as price, value, or interest
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Decline - to become less or worse
- Arbitrage - the method on the stock exchange of buying something in one place and selling it in another place at the same time, in order to make a profit from the difference in price in the two places
- Predict - to say that an event or action will happen in the future, especially as a result of knowledge or experience
- In the wake of something - if something happens in the wake of something else, it happens after and often because of it
- Appetite - the feeling of wanting or needing something
- Policymaker - a member of a government department, legislature, or other organization who is responsible for making new rules, laws, etc
- Robust - strong and successful
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