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Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 24th May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Thoothukudi firing: Entirely preventable"
Download PDF Version of Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 24th May 2018 from HERE
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Thoothukudi firing: Entirely preventable"
- Preventable - capable of being prevented
- Thorough - including everything that is possible or necessary
- Inquiry - an official examination of a crime, accident, problem etc, in order to get information or the truth
- Lead-up - the period that comes before an important event
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Smelter - a factory or machine which gets metal from rock by heating it to a very high temperature
- Witness - to see something happen
- Bench - the position of being a judge in a court of law
- Predict - to say what you think will happen in the future
- Trigger - to make something happen
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Gauge - a fact or event that can be used for judging someone or something
- Intensity - strength
- Tragic - causing or involving great sadness, because someone suffers or dies
- Irony - a strange, funny, or sad situation in which things happen in the opposite way to what you would expect
- Demonstration - an occasion when a large group of people protest about something
- Stage - to organize an event
- Operational - working correctly and able to be used
- Renew - to arrange for something to continue for a longer period of time
- Consent - permission to do something
- Drive something home - to tell people about something in a way that makes them understand and accept it
- Intent - the intention to do something
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Compensate - to pay someone money because they have suffered an injury or loss
- Alienation - the act of making someone stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Brutally - in a violent way
- Snuff out - to make something end quickly, especially by using force
- Chilling - making you feel suddenly very frightened or worried
- Accusation - a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong
- Sniper - someone who shoots at people from a hidden place
- Deploy - if a government or army deploys soldiers or weapons, it uses them
- Premeditated - a premeditated crime, bad action, unpleasant remark etc has been deliberately planned
- Commensurate - intended to be suitable for the quality, status, or value of someone or something
- Gravity - the seriousness or importance of something
- Heavy-handedness - using too much force, or not considering people’s feelings enough when dealing with a situation
- Disproportionate - if something is disproportionate, it is bigger or smaller than it should be in comparison to something else
- Intervene - to become involved in a situation in order to try to stop or change it
- Head of steam - a situation in which a person or an activity starts to become very active or successful
- Stakes claim - if you stake a claim to something, you say or show that you have a right to it and that it should belong to you
- Consistent - continuing or developing steadily in the same way
- Injunction - an order from a court that prevents someone from doing something
- Restrain - to prevent someone or yourself from doing something
- Expansion - the process of making a business, organization, or activity grow by including more people, moving into new areas, selling more products etc
- Infuse - to give someone or something a particular quality
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Audit - a careful examination of something, especially one done to find the amount, size, or effectiveness of something
- Polluter - a person or company responsible for causing pollution
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Verifiable - able to be checked or proved
- Viable - able to be done, or worth doing
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Writer Philip Roth: Everyman"
- Everyman - an ordinary person
- Unmatched - better than all others
- Unflinching - not changing or stopping, despite difficulties
- Depiction - a description of something using words or pictures
- Titan - a person or organization that is very important or successful
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Chronicle - to make a record of events in the order in which they happened
- Flawed - spoiled by something such as a fault or mark, or lacking something
- Nightmare - an extremely difficult or frightening situation
- Predicament - a difficult or unpleasant situation that is not easy to get out of
- Betrayal - an act of betraying someone or something
- Betray - if you betray your country, or if you betray someone who needs your support, you deliberately do something that harms them or helps their opponents
- Alienation - the process of making someone dislike you, or not want to help or support you
- Correctness - accuracy; care
- Desire - a strong feeling of wanting to have or to do something
- Let go of someone / something - to stop holding someone or something
- Inhibition - a feeling of being embarrassed or not confident that makes it difficult to relax and do or say what you want to
- Oeuvre - all the books, films, paintings etc that a particular person has produced
- Acerbic - showing criticism in a way that is clever and funny, but rather cruel
- Trilogy - a series of three books, films, or plays
- Pastoral - relating to the work that a priest or other religious leader does to help and advise people
- Resurgence - the start of something again that quickly increases in influence, effect etc
- Critique - to express your opinion about something after examining and judging it carefully and in detail
- Sequel - a book, film, play etc that continues the story of an earlier one
- Alter-ego - a part of someone’s personality that is different from their usual personality and that other people do not usually see
- Ghost Writer - someone who writes something for someone else whose name will appear on it as the writer
- Facet - an aspect of something such as a situation or someone’s character
- Obsessed - considering someone or something as so important that you are always thinking about them, in a way that seems extreme to other people
- Enrage - to make someone extremely angry
- Nemesis - someone or something that continues to oppose you and cannot easily be defeated
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Extreme - very unusual
- Forte - something that someone is very good at or knows a lot about
- Sheer - used for emphasizing the amount or degree of something
- Playfulness - the quality of being light-hearted or full of fun
- Impurity - the quality of not being pure
- Protagonist - the main character in a play, film, book, or story
- Patrimony - possessions and property that someone gets from their father after he dies
- Searing - severe in your judgment of someone or something
- Antagonistic - disliking someone or something very much and behaving in a very unfriendly way towards them
- Libidinous - expressing strong sexual feelings
- Critic - someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it
- Supremacist - someone who believes their own race is much better than others, and believes they should have power and control
- Eerie - strange and mysterious, and sometimes frightening
- Foreboding - a strong unpleasant feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon
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