English Vocabulary from
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Note : Click on the title to read the Editorial from the News Paper
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Darjeeling deadlock: On elusive peace"
- Deadlock - a situation in which neither person or group involved in a disagreement is willing to change their opinions or position
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
- Sink your differences - to stop arguing and come to an agreement
- Tripartite - involving three countries or organizations
- Shutdown - an occasion when a machine or factory stops working temporarily
- Determine - to officially decide something
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Deployment - if a government or army deploys soldiers or weapons, it uses them
- Troops - soldiers, especially in large numbers
- Fluid - if situations, ideas, or plans are fluid, they are not fixed and are likely to change, often repeatedly and unexpectedly
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Misappropriation - to steal something that you have been trusted to take care of and use it for your own good
- Proclaim - to announce something publicly or officially
- Offender - someone who has committed a crime
- Exploit - to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this
- Prop up - to help a government, system, organization etc to continue to exist, especially by providing financial or military support
- Autonomous - an autonomous state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Elevation - the act of giving someone higher status or a more important position
- Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
- Faction - a small group within a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions from the rest
- Uncertainty - the fact that something is not known or has not been decided
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Harvest - to collect a crop from the fields
- Trickle back - to arrive or move somewhere slowly and gradually, in small numbers
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Retract - to say that something that you previously said or wrote is not true
- Conciliatory - trying to end an argument and make people feel less angry
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Back to the ballot: On Kenyan polls"
- Ballot - the process of voting secretly to choose a candidate in an election or express an opinion about an issue
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Annul - to state officially that something such as a marriage, an agreement, or an election has no legal authority
- Fray - an energetic and often not well-organized effort, activity, fight, or disagreement
- Principal - main, or most important
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Contender - someone who competes with other people for a prize or job
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Overhaul - to completely change a system in order to make it work more effectively
- Persuade - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Gamble - to do something that involves risks but may result in benefits if things happen as you hope they will
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
- Prompt - to cause something to happen or be done
- Postponement - to decide that something will not be done at the time when it was planned for, but at a later time
- Prevailing - existing at a particular time or in a particular place
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Turmoil - a state of excitement or uncontrolled activity
- Fragile - easy to break or damage
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Ethnic - relating to a group of people who have the same culture and traditions
- Embrace - to completely accept something such as a new belief, idea, or way of life
- Diversity - the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place
- Exemplary - excellent or done in a way that other people should try to copy
- Assertion - a definite statement or claim that something is true
- Overturn - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Indictment - something that shows how bad or wrong something is
- Consistent - continuing or developing steadily in the same way
- Lend credence - to make people think that something is likely to be true
- Manipulation - behaviour that influences someone or controls something in a clever or dishonest way
- Apparently - used for saying what seems to be true when people do not yet know all the facts of a situation
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Enact - to make a proposal into a law
- Circumscribe - to limit something such as power, rights, or opportunities
- Robust - strong and successful
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Accountable - in a position where people have the right to criticize you or ask you why something happened
- Err - to make a wrong judgment or decision
- Diplomat - an official whose job is to represent their government in a foreign country
- Unambiguous - expressed in a way that makes it completely clear what is meant
- Volatile - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
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