English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Towards a clean-up: on meeting sanitation goals"
- Clean-up - the process of removing pollution or waste from a place
- Sanitation - conditions and processes relating to people’s health, especially the systems that supply water and deal with human waste
- Investment - the process of spending money in order to improve something or make it more successful
- High-profile - attracting a lot of attention and interest from the public and newspapers, television, etc
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
- Rigorous - thorough and careful
- Fare - to succeed
- Lapsed into something - to start speaking or behaving in a less active or acceptable way
- Disuse - the condition of not being used (any longer)
- Rural - relating to the countryside
- Deficit - the total amount by which money spent is more than money received
- Assessment - the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something, or the judgment or decision that is made
- Exceed - to go above an official limit
- Substantial - large in size, value, or importance
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
- Comprehensive - complete and easily achieved
- Affluent - used about a place where people have a lot of money
- Sewage - waste matter from houses
- Segregation - to keep one thing separate from another
- Compost - a mixture of decaying plants and vegetables that is added to soil to improve its quality
- Landfill - a large hole in the ground where waste from people’s homes or from industry is buried
- Pernicious - very dangerous or harmful
- Campaign - to try to achieve political or social change by persuading other people or the government to do something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Race for Nairobi: controversies surrounding Kenya presidential election"
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
- Fierce - involving very strong feelings such as determination, anger, or hate
- Contestation - the act of arguing or disagreeing about something
- Trailing - to be losing to your competitor in a competition
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Disputed - a disputed fact, statement, or judgment is one that many people argue about
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Tabulation - a way of processing information or data by putting it in a table
- Variance - differences between two or more similar things
- Alleging - to say that something is true or that someone has done something wrong or illegal, even though this has not been proved
- Insisting - to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- Overhaul - to take apart and repair a machine in order to make it work better
- Linger - to last or continue for a long time
- For instance - for example
- Grist to the mill - something that can be used for achieving an aim
- Exude - if you exude a particular quality, people notice easily that you have a lot of it
- Cautious - careful to avoid problems or danger
- Optimism - a tendency to be hopeful and to expect that good things will probably happen
- Reshuffle - the process of changing the jobs or responsibilities of the people in a particular group or organization
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something
- Condemnation - a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
- Marred - to spoil something
- Dispute - an argument or disagreement
- Pre-requisite - something that must exist or happen before something else is possible
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Deteriorate - to become worse
- Bloodshed - a situation in which people are killed or injured, especially during fighting
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