English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic : "Jayalalithaa, 1948-2016"
- Adversity - a difficult or unpleasant situation
- Spring back - to recover quickly and completely after difficult situation
- Taunts - to intentionally annoy and upset someone by making unkind remarks to them, laughing unkindly, etc
- Adventurist - a person who is willing to take risks in order to gain an unfair advantage in business or politics
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Mentor - an experienced person who helps someone who has less experience
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Anoint - to decide that someone should be given a particular important job
- Successor - someone who has an important position after someone else
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
- Reuniting - to bring together again
- Factions - a small group within a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions from the rest
- Retrieving - to get something back
- Reviving - to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Rural - relating to the countryside
- Peasants - a person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops (especially one who has a low income, very little education, and a low social position)
- Unorganised - without any particular plan, structure, or order
- Unorganised workers - unorganized workers do not belong to a trade union
- Subsidies - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Unlike - different from someone or something else
- Cauvery - kaveri river
- Toe her line - to do what she ordered or expected to do
- Term - the fixed period of time that something lasts for
- Enmeshed - to involve someone in something unpleasant or dangerous from which it is difficult to escape:
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Perceive - become aware or conscious of (something) / come to realize or understand
- Alienate - to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Drove away - to make someone stop wanting something or stop wanting to be with someone
- Allies - supporters
- Drubbing - serious defeat
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information
- Reinvent - to change something that already exists and give it a different form or purpose
- Swiftly - quickly or immediately
- Slew - a violent or uncontrollable sliding movement
- Eepitaph - a short piece of writing that is written on the grave of dead person
- Turned the tables - to change from being in a weaker position in relation to someone else to being in a stronger position
- Survive - to continue to live or exist, especially after difficult situation
- Haughty - proud and unfriendly
- Aloofness - not friendly or willing to take part in things
- Stitch together - to create or form something quickly or roughly
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
- Sheer - used for emphasizing the amount or degree of something
- Pitchforking - to put someone into a new and unpleasant situation when they were not expecting it
- Resemblance - if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar
- Survival - continuing to live or exist
- Squandered - to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage
- Insisting - to say very strongly that something must happen or must be done
- Evidently - easily seen or understood:
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Premature - happening too soon or before the usual time
- Dissolution - the act or process of ending an official organization or legal agreement
- Arch-rival - the main person, company etc that you compete with in sport, business etc
- Eventually - happening or existing at a later time or at the end, especially after a lot of effort, problems, etc
- Hard-fought - achieved after a lot of difficulty or fighting
- Frittered away something - to waste money, time, or an opportunity
- Nascence - the event of being born (began or formed recently)
- Roped in - to make someone to do something that they do not really want to do
- Incumbency - an official position
- Propensity - the fact that someone is likely to behave in a particular way, especially a bad way
- Drive away - to make someone stop wanting to be with someone
- Foes - enemies
- Setback - something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
- Unseat - to remove someone from power, especially as a result of an election
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Overturned - to change a legal decision
- By-election - an election in one particular area to choose a new representative in parliament or on a council, or to replace someone who has died or left the job
- Disproportionate - if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else
- Remarkable - unusual or special and therefore surprising and worth mentioning
- Thanks to - used for saying that someone or something is responsible for something good that happened
- Unflinching - not changing or stopping
- Loyalty - support that you always give to someone or something because of your feelings of duty and love towards them
- Adulation - great praise or admiration, especially for someone who is famous
- Unenviable - difficult and not at all enjoyable
- Acumen - the ability to make good quick decisions and judgments
- Charisma - a strong personal quality that makes other people like you and be attracted to you
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