English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 24th September 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Afghan overture — On India’s assistance"
- Overture - a suggestion or offer that you make to someone
- Assistance - help given to someone or help that allows something to be done
- Nuanced - taking account of or including small but important differences
- Set the stage for something - to create the conditions in which something is likely to happen
- Assess - to carefully consider a situation, person, or problem in order to make a judgment
- Significant - very important
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Cadet - a young person who is training to be a police officer or military officer
- Casualty - someone who is injured or killed in an accident or military action
- Invasion - an occasion when one country’s army goes into another country to take control of it by force
- Crucial - extremely important
- Irrigation - the supply of water to land or crops to help growth
- Deter - to make someone decide not to do something
- Reinforce - to make an idea, belief, or feeling stronger
- Refurbish - to improve something by cleaning and painting it
- Back on your feet - well or successful again after being ill or having problem
- Boots on the ground - a situation in which a country's armed forces are physically present in an area of conflict, as opposed to attacking from the air or surveying the situation remotely
- Enhance - to improve something
- Optics - the way a situation looks to the general public
- Obstacle - a difficulty or problem that prevents you from achieving something
- Pose - to present a difficult or dangerous situation
- Trilateral - involving three groups or countries
- Circumvent - to find a way of avoiding a rule or law that limits you, especially using a clever trick that does not break the law
- Reassure - to make someone feel less worried about something
- Faltering - becoming less effective and successful
- Capitalise - to sell something you own for money that you need
- Scrambling - to hurry or try very hard to get something, often competing with others
- Appropriate - suitable or right for a particular situation or purpose
- Revive - to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- In store - going to happen soon
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters, especially taxes
- To the tune of - used for emphasizing how large an amount is
- Retail price - the price that customers pay for goods in stores
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Stimulus - anything that encourages something to happen, develop, or improve
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Proximate cause - something that is considered to be the direct cause of damage, loss, or injury
- Lacklustre - not lively, exciting, or impressive
- Decelerate - to move, progress, or drive more slowly
- Merely - used to emphasize that something is not large, important, or effective when compared to something else
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem:
- Bottleneck - a specific problem in part of a process, that causes delays to the whole process
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Investor - a person or organization that invests money
- Resorting to - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Antidote - something that helps to improve the effects of something bad or negative
- Rigidity - the quality or characteristic of not permitting any change
- Unease - a feeling of being nervous, uncomfortable, or unhappy about a situation
- Uncertainty - a nervous feeling that you have because you think bad things might happen
- Looming - to appear as a large shape that is not clear, usually in a threatening way
- Sluggish - not performing or reacting as well as usual
- Relatively - in comparison with someone or something similar
- Successive - coming or happening one after another in a series
- Enact - to make a proposal into a law
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Macroeconomic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
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