English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "National health policy 2017: A road map for health"
- Road Map - a plan for how to achieve something
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Nudge - to make someone to do something
- Incidence - an event, or the rate at which something happens
- Non-communicable - that cannot be passed from one person to another
- Diabetes - a disease in which the body cannot control the level of sugar in the blood
- Bring up the rear - to be the last in a group
- Laggardly - slow to do something or slow to make progress
- Deficiency - a state of not having, or not having enough, of something that is needed
- Glaring - used to say that something bad is very obvious
- Lacunae - an empty space where something is missing
- Initiative - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem
- Unlikely - not likely to happen
- Abysmal - bad or low quality
- Deploy - to move people (here doctors) to a place where they can be used when they are needed
- Infant - a baby or a very young child
- Mortality - the number of deaths within a particular society and within a particular period of time
- Maternal - relating to being a mother
- Exceed - to be greater than a number or amount, or to go past an allowed limit
- Inevitable - certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
- Outpatient - a person who goes to a hospital for treatment, but who does not stay any nights there
- Inpatient - a person who goes into hospital to receive medical care, and stays there one or more nights while they are being treated
- Accountability - a situation in which someone is responsible for things that happen and can give a satisfactory reason for them
- Regulatory - controlling
- Accreditation - official approval, esp. in order to maintain satisfactory standards
- Oversight - a mistake made because of a failure to notice something
- Backdoor - relating to something that is done secretly or in a way that is not direct or honest
- Backed - supported
- Mandatory - something that is mandatory must be done, or is demanded by law
- Accredited - officially recognized or approved
- Prevailing - existing in a particular place or at a particular time
- Asymmetry - the quality of being different or strange
- Footing - the basic conditions in which something operates or develops
- Robust - strong
- Fragmented - consisting of several separate parts
- Reconcile - to find a way in which two situations or beliefs that are opposed to each other can agree and exist together
- Out-of-pocket - used about money that you have to spend yourself rather than having it paid for you, for example by your employer or insurance company
- Diagnostic - used for finding out what physical or mental problem someone has
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Netherlands elections: Beyond the vote"
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Rival - a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area
- Elsewhere - in or to another place or other places
- Sweep - to quickly spread through and influence an area
- Relentlessly - continuing in a severe or extreme way
- Belied - to show something to be false, or to hide something such as an emotion
- Retained - to keep or continue to have something
- Primacy - the state of being the most important thing
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Proportional - if two amounts are proportional, they change at the same rate so that the relationship between them does not change
- Bicameral - a bicameral parliament consists of two separate groups of people involved in making laws
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time, or a government that is formed in this way
- Inevitable - certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Consolidate - to become, or cause something to become, stronger, and more certain
- Spectacle - an unusual or unexpected event or situation that attracts attention, interest, or disapproval
- Addressing - speaking to someone (group)
- Notable - important and deserving attention, because of being very good or interesting
- Pro - supporting or approving of something
- Refugee - a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war
- Populism - politics that represents the interests and opinions of ordinary people
- Tolerance - willingness to accept behaviour and beliefs that are different from your own, although you might not agree with or approve of them
- Empathy - the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation
- Precipitous - if a reduction or increase is precipitous, it is fast or great
- Decline - to gradually become less, worse, or lower
- Stitch something together - to create or form something quickly or roughly
- Navigate - to deal effectively with a complicated situation
- Turbulent - involving a lot of sudden changes, arguments, or violence
- Legitimate - reasonable and acceptable
- Concern - a worried or nervous feeling about something
- Austerity - a situation in which economic conditions are bad and people’s living standards fall
- Immigrant - a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently
- Islamophobia - unreasonable dislike or fear of Muslims or Islam
- Scapegoating - the act of blaming a person or group for something bad that has happened or that someone else has done
- Minority - any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race, religion, or political beliefs
- Respectable - a respectable amount or quality is large enough or of a good enough standard to be acceptable
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