English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Ramallah recall: On India’s Palestine policy"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Ramallah recall: On India’s Palestine policy"
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Delicate - a delicate situation needs to be dealt with carefully so that people do not get upset or annoyed
- Adopt - to decide to start using a particular idea, plan, or method
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Intractable - very difficult or impossible to deal with
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Aspiration - something that you want to achieve, or the wish to achieve something
- 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
- Vast - extremely large
- Reiterate - to repeat something in order to emphasize it or make it very clear to people
- Sovereign - having the highest power or being completely independent
- Bilateral - a bilateral agreement or activity is one that involves two groups or countries
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- Isolation - the state of being separated from other people, or a situation in which you do not have the support of other people
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Overwhelmingly - very great or very large
- Nuance - a slight difference that may be difficult to notice but is fairly important
- Stop short - to suddenly stop what you are doing or saying
- Specifics - the details of something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Woods and trees: On the state of Indian forests"
- Revive - to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Monoculture - the practice of growing only one crop in an area
- Imagery - pictures, photographs, or objects that represent an idea
- Broad-brush - very general and without many details
- Assessment - the act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something
- Dense - with a lot of trees, plants, or leaves growing close together
- Moderately - to some degree but not to a great degree
- Scrub - (an area of land covered with) short trees and bushes, growing on dry ground of low quality
- Insight - a chance to understand something or learn more about it
- Integrity - the quality of being complete or whole, without any missing parts
- Emphasis - special importance or attention that is given to one thing in particular
- Yield - to produce something useful such as information or evidence
- Dividend - profit
- Baseline - a quantity, value, or fact used as a standard for measuring other quantities, values, or facts
- Biodiverse - having many different types of animals and plants
- Ecosystem - all the plants and animals in a particular area, considered as a system with parts that depend on one another
- Plantation - a large farm where crops such as tea, coffee, cotton, and sugar are grown
- Assemblage - the process of building something by putting all its parts together
- Endow with - to give a particular quality to something, or to say that something has a particular quality
- Colonial - relating to a system or period in which one country rules another
- Exploitation - unfair treatment of someone, or the use of a situation in a way that is wrong, in order to get some benefit for yourself
- Latter-day - existing now as a modern example of someone or something from the past
- Restoration - the act or process of returning something to its earlier good condition or position
- Vegetation - plants that are found in a particular area
- Audit - a careful examination of something, especially one done to find the amount, size, or effectiveness of something
- Cumulative - developing or increasing gradually as a result of more and more additions
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Hotspot - a popular and exciting place
- Remediation - the process of improving a situation or of correcting a problem
- Compensate - to change or remove the bad result of something
- Adequate - in a way that is good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Flood - a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry
- Erode - to gradually reduce the strength or importance of something
- Monoculture - the practice of growing only one crop in an area
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Canopy - the branches and leaves that spread out at the top of a group of trees forming a type of roof
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Indigenous - indigenous plants and animals belong to a region because they developed there
- Renaissance - new interest in something that makes it popular again
