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September 07, 2017

English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 7th September 2017

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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of Today's Hindu News Paper dated 7th September 2017. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials 

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Death of an activist: on Gauri Lankesh"
  • Activist - someone who takes part in activities that are intended to achieve political or social change
  • Embolden - to give someone more confidence to do something
  • Stifle - to prevent something from happening, being expressed, or continuing
  • Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
  • Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
  • Fool’s game - an effort that is unlikely to be successful
  • Hazard - something that could be dangerous or could cause damage or accidents
  • Brutally - in extremely violent way
  • Point-blank -  with the gun held very close to the person who is shot
  • Temple - the flat area on either side of your forehead next to your eyes
  • Hallmark - a typical feature
  • Pre-meditated - a premeditated crime, bad action, unpleasant remark etc has been deliberately planned
  • Assassination - the murder of a famous or important person, especially for political reasons
  • Draw attention -  to make people notice
  • Constituency - a group of people with similar attitudes or interests who are likely to support a particular idea
  • Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
  • Consciousness - the knowledge or understanding that something exists or is important
  • Creeping - happening very slowly so that people do not notice
  • Progressive - supporting social and political change that aims to make a system fairer
  • Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
  • Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
  • Tabloid - a newspaper with fairly small pages mostly containing stories about famous people and not much serious news
  • Intensely - to an extreme degree
  • Mourn - to feel extremely sad because someone has died, and to express this in public
  • Rationalist - someone who believes that ideas and actions should be based on practical reasons and knowledge, rather than on emotions or religious beliefs
  • High-profile - often seen in public, mentioned in newspapers, or appearing on television
  • Transcend - to become free of negative attitudes, thoughts, or feelings that limit what you can achieve
  • Formidable - causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, or difficult
  • Howsoever - showing how a sentence is related to what has already been said
  • Brutal - extremely violent
  • Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
  • Complainant - in a court of law, the person who has asked the court to judge their case
  • Sniffing around - to try to find out information
  • Eventual - happening or existing at the end of a process or period of time
  • Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
  • Defenceless - weak and unable to protect yourself
  • Expeditiously - with speed and efficiency
  • Embolden - to give someone more confidence to do something
  • Dissent -  strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
  • Reassurance - the act of making someone feel less worried about something
  • Garbage - waste material or unwanted things that you throw away
  • Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
  • Ignore - to not consider something
  • Notify - to inform someone officially about something
  • Collapse - if a building or other structure collapses, it suddenly falls down
  • Stark - used for describing an unpleasant fact or situation that is very obvious or impossible to avoid
  • Consequence - a result or effect of something
  • Comply with - act in accordance with a wish or command.
  • Stipulation - to say exactly how something must be or must be done
  • Segregation - to keep one thing separate from another
  • Potential - possible or likely in the future
  • Extraction - the process of removing something
  • Recycle -  to change waste materials such as newspapers and bottles so that they can be used again
  • Quantum - the smallest amount or unit of something
  • Concurrent - happening or done at the same time
  • Stakeholder - someone who has an interest in the success of a plan, system, or organization
  • Discard / Dump - to get rid of something that you no longer want or need
  • Compost - a mixture of decaying plants and vegetables that is added to soil to improve its quality
  • Ironic - the opposite of what you really think
  • Stiff - more severe or difficult than usual
  • Flimsy - light
  • Suburban - an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live
  • Paradigm - a typical example or model of something
  • Demonstrable  - clear or obvious
  • Segregated - separated
  • Periodic - happening regularly though not frequently
  • Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
  • Preparedness - the state of being ready for something
  • Run-up -  to make something very quickly
  • Rigorous - strict and careful
  • Merely - only / just
  • Fester - starts to decay and smell bad
  • Choke - to fill a place so that it is difficult to move
  • Threatened - to be likely to be affected by something bad




3 comments:

  1. mam please vocab ko pdf me bi availble karaye daily

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  2. Good iniative.It would be very useful if you can continue dailly.

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  3. *Hazard(verb) = say (something) in a tentative way

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