English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Chasing a grand alliance"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Solutions after the smog"
- Alliance - a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims
- Stared down - to pressure someone
- Resurgent - increasing again, or becoming popular again
- Replication - doing something again in exactly the same way
- Rife - if something unpleasant is rife, it is very common or happens a lot
- Buzz - the feeling of excitement
- Strategist - someone with a lot of skill and experience in planning
- Festivity - a happy feeling that people get when they celebrate a special event
- Assembled - to bring together for a particular purpose
- Fellow-traveller - someone who supports a political party, but is not a member of it
- Secular - not religious, or not connected with religion
- Significant - very important
- Enigmatic - mysterious and difficult to understand
- Tight-lipped - refusing to comment on something
- Uninhibited - free and natural, without embarrassment or too much control
- Fungible - easy to exchange or trade for something else of the same type and value
- Essentially - necessarily (needed)
- Strike the best deal - to reach an agreement
- Also-ran - someone who is not successful, especially someone who loses an election or competition
- Optimistic - based on beliefs that are too confident
- Projection - a calculation or guess about the future based on information that you have
- Opponents - people who are competing against you
- Buried - to stop yourself from having a feeling or memory by not allowing yourself to think about it
- Embrace - to include something, often as one of a number of things
- Formidable - causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, or difficult
- Feud - an angry disagreement between two people or groups that continues for a long time
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Solutions after the smog"
- Smog - a mixture of smoke, gases, and chemicals, especially in cities, that makes the atmosphere difficult to breathe and harmful for health
- Crippling - causing serious damage or problems
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Adopt - to accept or start to use something new
- Two-pronged - two sided
- Crop - plants grown for food, usually on a farm
- Urbanisation - the process by which towns and cities grow bigger and more and more people go to live in them
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Pollutants - a particular type of liquid, solid, or gas that is harmful to the environment
- Post-monsoon - before the period of heavy rain in India
- Persist - if an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist
- Inversion - a situation in which something is changed so that it is the opposite of what it was before
- Retarding - to slow down or delay the development or progress of something
- Dispersal - to spread acros a large area
- Foul - extremely unpleasant
- Residue - the part that is left after the main part has gone or been taken away
- Eminent - famous, respected, or important
- Straw - the dried, yellow stems of crops such as wheat
- Harvesting - the process of collecting crop from fields
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Paddy - a field of rice growing in water
- Livestock - animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs that are kept on farms
- Compost - decaying plant material that is added to soil to improve its quality
- Biofuel - a fuel that is made from living things or their waste
- Substrate - the material that a plant or an animal that does not move much feeds on or uses as support
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Molasses - a thick, dark brown liquid that is produced during the process of making sugar, used in cooking
- Legume - a seed such as a pea or bean that grows in a pod
- Severe - very serious and worrying
- Owing to - because of
- Kiln - a type of oven used for baking clay, bricks etc to make them hard
- Zero tolerance - a policy of punishing people for even very minor offences by using the law in a very strict way
- Civic - relating to a town or city, especially to its government and public activities
- Diffused - to spread in many directions
- Unavoidable - impossible to stop from happening
- Fleet - a number of buses, aircraft, etc. under the control of one organization
- Augment - to increase the size or value of something by adding something to it
- Efficiency - the ability to work well and produce good results by using the available time, money, supplies etc in the most effective way
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
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