English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 22nd January 2017 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "In fruitless pursuit of permanence"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "America’s era of anger"
- Fruitless - failing to achieve the desired results (useless)
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- Ordinance - a law or rule made by a government or authority
- Surge - a sudden increase of an emotion
- Taming - to control something dangerous or powerful
- Enormous - extremely large
- Momentum - the force that keeps an event developing after it has started
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Exempt - allowed to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Purview - the limit of someone's responsibility, interest, or activity
- Implacable - used to describe (someone who has) strong opinions or feelings that are impossible to change
- Litigation - the process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made
- Incur - to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken
- Wrath - extreme anger
- Consent - permission or agreement
- Promulgating - to announce something publicly, especially a new law
- Protest - a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition
- Spearhead - to lead something such as an attack or a course of action
- Fructify - to produce a good or useful result
- Obviously - in a way that is easy to understand or see
- Intend - to have as a plan or purpose
- Convene - to bring together a group of people for a meeting, or to meet for a meeting
- Scrutiny - the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information about it
- Repugnant - if behaviour or beliefs, etc. are repugnant, they are very unpleasant, causing a feeling of disgust
- Inherently - in a permanent way
- Contrary - the opposite
- Invalidate - to make something such as a document, contract, or process no longer legally effective
- Meanwhile - until something expected happens, or while something else is happening
- Uprising - an act of opposition, sometimes using violence, by many people in one area of a country against those who are in power
- Gone beyond something - to be more than something
- Attained - succeed in achieved something, especially after a lot of effort
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Metamorphosed - to change into something very different
- Mainstream - considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people
- Tragically - very badly
- Injured - hurt or physically harmed
- Legitimise - to make something legal or acceptable
- Mindless - stupid and meaning nothing
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "America’s era of anger"
- Era - a period of time that has a particular quality or character
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Belligerence - anger (in very unfriendly way)
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Inaugural address - a speech made by someone to celebrate the start of an important new job
- Divisive - likely to cause arguments between people
- Trumped - to win or to succeed
- Omission - someone or something that has not been included, either deliberately or because someone forgot
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Humility - a way of behaving that shows that you do not think that you are better or more important than other people
- Embrace - to accept something enthusiastically
- Emphasis - the particular importance or attention that is given to something
- Predecessor - someone who had a job or a position before you
- Vowing - promising
- Carnage - the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in war
- Eradicate - to get rid of something completely or destroy something bad
- Radical - believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change
- Terror - violent action that causes extreme fear
- Roll back - to remove something, or to reduce the influence of something
- LGBT - lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
- Put something together - to put the parts of something in the correct places and join them to each other
- Buttress - to make support for an idea or argument stronger by providing a good reason for it
- Protectionism - the actions of a government to help its country's trade or industry by taxing goods bought from other countries
- Liberalism - to make laws, systems, or opinions less severe
- Crisis - an extremely difficult or dangerous point in a situation
- Thronged - to be or go somewhere in very large numbers
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Disdain - the feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect
- Multilateralism - a situation in which several different countries or organizations work together to achieve something or deal with a problem
- Confrontational - causing or involving angry disagreement
- Diplomacy - the management of relationships between countries
- Anxious - worried and nervous
- Unleashed - to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled
- Bygone era - belonging to or happening in a past time
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