English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Restoring goodwill with Kathmandu"
Topic 2 : "A sordid record in Chhattisgarh"
- Restore - to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position
- Conclude - to end a speech, meeting, or piece of writing
- Juncture - a particular point in time
- Turmoil - a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder
- Tacit - understood without being expressed directly
- Agitation - worry and anxiety
- Blockade - the situation in which a country or place is surrounded by soldiers to stop people or goods from going in or out
- Prolong - to make something last a longer time
- Vacillate - to be uncertain what to do, or to change often between two opinions
- Amendments - a change to a law that is not yet in operation and is still being discussed
- Yield - produced or provided
- Ease - to make or become less difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc
- Stir - to cause problems between people
- Unrest - a state of dissatisfaction, disturbance
- Perceived - become aware or conscious of something
- Partisanship - strongly supporting a person, principle, or political party, without considering or judging the matter very carefully
- Resurgence - a new increase of activity or interest in a particular subject or idea that had been forgotten for some time:
- Resurgence - bringing again into activity
- Jingoism - the extreme belief that your own country is always best
- Stand-off - a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible
- Drained - very tired / to lose something
- Devastating - causing a lot of damage or destruction
- Recalibrate - readjust
- Cordial - friendly, but formal and polite
- Landlocked state - a state, which is almost surrounded by land
- Overstated - to describe something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is
- Spillover affect - a situation begins to affect another situation in an unpleasant or unwanted way
- Turmoil - a state of great disturbance, confusion
- Consensus - a general agreement
- Emphasis - special importance
- Dissenting - to disagree with other people about something
- Onus - something that is one's duty or responsibility
- Embargo - an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country
- Normalcy - the condition of being normal
- Brinkmanship - the activity of trying to get what you want by saying that if you do not get it, you will do something dangerous
- Detrimental - causing harm or damage
- Dwell on something - to keep thinking about something
- Deterioration - the process of becoming worse
- Equilibrium - a stable / balanced situation
Topic 2 : "A sordid record in Chhattisgarh"
- Sordid - morally wrong and shocking
- Borne - Carried or transported by. Often used in combination: motorcycle-borne
- Assailants - a person who attacks another person
- Swollen - larger than usual
- Watchdog - to watch carefully, esp. so as to detect illegal or unethical conduct
- Allege - to say that someone has done something illegal or wrong without giving proof
- Assaulted - to attack someone violently
- In the wake of - following or as a result of something
- Endorse - to make a public statement of your approval or support for something or someone
- Clampdown - a sudden action taken by a government or people in authority to stop or limit a particular activity
- Dissent - a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject, especially about an official suggestion or plan or a popular belief
- Atrocity - an extremely cruel, violent, or shocking act
- Intimidated - frightened
- Eviction - to force someone to leave somewhere
- Lodge - to make an official complaint about something
- Retreat - to go away from a place or person in order to escape from fighting or danger
- Fierce - strong and powerful
- Plunder - to steal goods violently from a place
- Loathe - to hate someone or something
- Resistance - the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something
- Exemplify - to be or give a typical example of something
- Trigger - an event or situation, etc. that causes something bad to start
- Crackdown - a situation in which someone starts to deal with bad or illegal behaviour in a more severe way
- Criminalisation - the process by which behaviors and individuals are transformed into crime and criminals
- Spotlight - focus
- Illuminating - giving you new information about a subject or making it easier to understand
- Absurd - stupid and unreasonable, or silly in a humorous way
- Sedition - speech or behaviour directed against the peace of a state
- Waging - to fight a war or organize a series of activities in order to achieve something
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