English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 11th February 2018 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "States of health: On NITI Aayog’s first Health Index"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "States of health: On NITI Aayog’s first Health Index"
- Trigger - to cause something to start
- Debate- a serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part
- Unsurprisingly - in a way that you expected
- Investment - the process of spending money in order to improve something or make it more successful
- Nutrition - food considered as something that keeps you healthy
- Bring up the rear - to be the last in a line or group
- Sustainable development - the development of a country or region that does not use more natural resources than can be replaced and so does not harm the environment
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Hardly - used for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all
- Uneven - not of the same quality in all its parts
- Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
- For instance - for example
- Neonatal - relating to the first weeks of a baby’s life
- Mortality - the number of deaths within a particular area, group etc
- Remedial - intended to improve or correct something
- Notch up - to win something, or to achieve something
- Intra-State - existing or happening within one state
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Tuberculosis - a serious infectious disease affecting your lungs
- Immunisation - to prevent someone from getting a particular illness by putting a substance into their body, especially using a needle
- Out-of-pocket - to have lost money as the result of something
- Expenditure - money spent by a government, organization, or person
- Imperative - something that is very important and urgent
- Rigorous - careful to look at or consider every part of something to make certain it is correct or safe
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Non-communicable - disease that can not be passed from one person or animal to another
- Integrity - the quality of behaving according to the rules and standards of your job or profession
- Composite - made up of separate parts
- Scale up - to make something larger in size, amount etc than it used to be
- Ambitious - determined to be successful, rich, famous etc
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Reliance - the state of depending on a particular person or thing
- Taxation - the system that a government uses for collecting money from people in the form of taxes
- Bedrock - the ideas and principles on which a belief or system is based
- Mainstreaming - the process of becoming accepted as normal by most people
- Outcome - the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Turf war: On Indian bourses and overseas trade"
- Turf war - arguments between people or groups who each want to control a particular area
- Bourses - stock markets
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Offshore - away from or at a distance from the coast
- Peer - someone who belongs to the same social or professional group as another person
- Derivative - something that has developed or been obtained from something else
- Indices - a plural of index
- Migration - movement from one region to another
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Ambitious - an ambitious plan, aim, or attempt is difficult and will need a lot of effort to succeed
- Endeavour - an effort to do something, especially something new or difficult
- Patronage - help or money that is given to a person or organization
- Crackdown - strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity
- Unlikely - not likely to happen / not likely to be true
- Vast - extremely large
- Investor - a person who puts money into something in order to make a profit or get an advantage
- Jurisdiction - a country or area in which a particular legal system operates
- In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Incidentally - used for adding related but less important information to what has just been said, or for suddenly introducing a new subject
- Spur - to cause something to happen
- Catering to - to satisfy a need or to provide what is wanted or needed by a particular person or group
- Unmet - used for saying that what is needed or wanted has not been done or provided
- Policymaker - a member of a government department, legislature, or other organization who is responsible for making new rules, laws, etc
- Knee-jerk - a knee-jerk reaction is immediate and not carefully considered
