English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Tough times: containing violence crucial for peaceful Kashmir"
- Violence - actions or words that are intended to hurt people
- Crucial - extremely important
- Coordinated - to organize things into a system
- Valley - a low area of land between mountains or hills, usually with a river flowing through it
- Indication - a sign that something will happen, is true, or exists
- Turn out - to develop in a particular way, or to have a particular result
- Deadly - able or likely to kill people
- Pilgrim - someone who travels to a holy place that is important in their religion
- Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
- Clear-eyed - having or showing an ability to think clearly
- Vulnerability - the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally
- Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
- In spite of something - used for referring to a fact that makes something else surprising
- Dense - containing a lot of things or people close together
- Convoy - a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, often with other vehicles or ships providing protection for them
- Casualty - someone who is injured or killed in an accident or military action
- Intelligence - information collected about the secret plans and activities of a foreign government, enemy etc
- Sustained - continuing at the same level or rate for a long time
- Infiltration - to secretly join an organization or go into a place in order to find out information about it or damage it
- Finger-pointing - a situation in which someone is blamed for something that goes wrong
- Lapse - a short or temporary period when you fail or forget to do something in the right way
- Significantly - in a way that is relevant or that has an important effect on something
- Fallout - the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Escalate - to become much worse or more serious
- In the wake of something - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Authentic - real, accurate or based in fact
- Spike - a sudden increase
- Coincided - to happen at the same time as something else
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Intimidatory - to deliberately make someone feel frightened, especially so that they will do what you want
- Tactic - a particular method or plan for achieving something
- Standstill - a situation in which something stops moving or happening
- Coherent - reasonable and sensible
- Outreach - an effort to bring services or information to people where they live or spend time
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Containing - controlling
- Ominous - making you think that something bad will happen
- Retreat - to avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation
- Weaning off - to make someone gradually stop depending on something
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Treasury - the government department responsible for a country’s financial matters
- Auction - a public occasion when things are sold to the people who offer the most money for them
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Walk back - to take back a comment or reverse a decision
- Hike - to suddenly increase the amount or level of something
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Hawkishness - preferring to deal with political problems by using military force instead of more peaceful methods
- Bearish - expecting the prices of shares to fall
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Sole - only / single
- Widespread - happening or existing in many places, or affecting many people
- Coincide - to happen at the same time as something else
- Sovereign - an old unit of money in the form of a gold coin worth one pound
- Spell doom for - to cause the end, death, or destruction of someone or something
- Equity - the value of a company’s shares
- Betting - the activity of trying to win money by placing a bet (=guessing the result of a race, game etc)
- Incur - to lose money, owe money, or have to pay money as a result of doing something
- Collapse - to suddenly fail or fall down
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Unavoidable - impossible to stop from happening
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Step back - to temporarily stop being involved in an activity or situation in order to think about it in a new way
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