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January 31, 2018

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary - 31st January 2018

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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu News Paper dated 31st January 2018. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on titles to read Editorials

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A wider net: on the expanding tax base"
  • Expanding - to increase in size, number, or importance
  • Indirect tax - a tax charged on goods before they reach their final buyer
  • Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
  • Advent - the fact of an event happening
  • Regime - a system of rules that control something
  • Triggered - to make something happen
  • Surge - a sudden increase in something
  • Stride - an important positive development
  • Formalizing - to make something such as a plan, system, or agreement official
  • Bias - a special interest or ability in a particular thing, or a particular tendency
  • Assess -  to carefully consider a situation, person, or problem in order to make a judgment
  • Threshold - a level at which something happens
  • Swell - to become larger than normal
  • Exchequer - the government department responsible for a country’s financial matters
  • Potential - someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, or succeed
  • Glacial - extremely slow
  • Tipping point - a time when important things start happening in a situation, especially things that you cannot change
  • Reckon - to believe that something is true
  • Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
  • Chink - a small amount of a quality
  • Macro-economic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
  • Inertia - a situation in which something does not change for a long time
  • Underlying - underlying causes, facts, ideas etc are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
  • 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
  • Exacerbate - to make a problem become worse
  • Former - used for referring to the first of two people or things that you have mentioned
  • Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
  • Deter - to prevent someone from doing something
  • Road map - a plan or set of instructions that makes it easier for someone to do something
  • Pruning - to get rid of something that you do not need or want
  • Blanket - including or affecting everything
  • Exemption - permission to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
  • Vocation - a trade or profession
  • Proactive - taking action and making changes before they need to be made, rather than waiting until problems develop
  • Evader - someone who avoids or escapes from something or someone
  • Compliant - designed to follow a particular law, system, or set of instructions
  • Slash - to reduce something by a large amount
  • Duty - a tax that you must pay on something that you buy, or on something that you bring into one country from another country
  • Siege -  an attack
  • Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
  • Expose -  to allow something that is usually covered or hidden to be seen
  • Inability - the fact of not being able to do something
  • Backer - someone who gives help or money to a plan or organization
  • Claim - to say that someone’s actions are the cause of something,
  • Intercontinental - between / related to continents
  • Charity - an organization to which you give money so that it can give money and help to people who are poor or ill, or who need advice and support
  • Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
  • Destabilise - to cause problems for a country, government, or person in authority so that they become less effective
  • Chaos - a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess
  • Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
  • Cracking down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
  • War-torn - a war-torn country or place has been badly damaged by a war
  • Enclave - an area of a country or city where a particular group of people live
  • Orchestrate - to plan and organize a complicated event or course of action
  • Minority - a small number of people or things that are part of a larger group but different in some way from most of the group
  • Firepower - the weapons available to use against an enemy
  • Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
  • Contrary - completely different or opposed to something else
  • Stepping up - to incrase something
  • Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
  • Crises - plural of crisis (= a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering)
  • Protracted - continuing for a long time, especially longer than is normal or necessary
  • Indiscriminate - done without considering who or what you harm or damage
  • Substantial - large in amount or degree
  • Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
  • Outright - used for emphasizing that something happens or is done completely at one time or in a single process
  • Unseat - to remove someone from a position of power
  • Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
  • Troop - soldiers, especially in large numbers
  • Logjam - a situation in which one problem is stopping anything else from being done
  • Apparent - easy to see or understand
  • Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
  • Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other
  • Withholding - to refuse to give something or to keep back something
  • Impact - an effect, or an influence
  • Cohesive - combining well to form a strong well-organized unit
  • Plague - to cause a lot of problems for someone or something for a long period of time
  • Infighting - disagreements over who has power or control among the members of a group or organization
  • Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen


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