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February 07, 2016

English Vocabulary from "The Hindu" - 4th February 2016

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Hi Friends, I am Kani. Here I am sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of The Hindu dated 4th February 2016. Happy Reading :)

Topic 1 : "Time to debate Governors’ powers"

  • Debate - formal and serious discussion
  • Mandatory - compulsory
  • Floor test - to prove majority (by head-count) on the floor of the Parliament for a crucial decision
  • Conclusively - without any ​doubt
  • Prematurely - before the due time
  • Underscored - gave extra importance to something
  • Vested - fully and unconditionally guaranteed as a legal right
  • Harmonious - friendly and ​peaceful
  • Assent - express approval or agreement
  • Cautioned - warn or advise against doing something
  • Hasty - hurried
  • Instigate - to initiate
  • Protest - an action of expressing disapproval of or objection to something
  • Abused - treat with cruelty or violence
  • Threaten - to ​warn someone that you will ​kill or ​hurt them if they do not do what you ​want
  • Assaulted - a ​violent ​attack
  • Sacrificed - to give up something that is ​valuable to you in ​order to ​help another ​person
  • Collision - a ​strong ​disagreement
  • Accused - to say that someone has done something ​morally ​wrong
  • Hit the headlines - to ​appear in the ​news ​suddenly
  • Adverse - harmful
  • Notion - a ​belief or ​idea
  • Hues - different ​types
  • Pliant - easily influenced
  • Agenda - a ​list of ​aims or ​possible ​future ​achievements

Topic 2 : "Coming to grips with female foeticide"

  • Foeticide - the ​crime of ​killing a ​baby that has not ​yet been ​born
  • Aspect - part of a ​situation / problem
  • Put forth - to ​suggest an ​idea for ​consideration
  • Persuasive - having the power or ability to convince
  • Betray  - unintentionally reveal (do not do what yo promissed)
  • Undue - exceeding what is appropriate or normal (excessive)
  • Floated - to ​suggest a ​plan or an ​idea to be ​considered
  • Persisting - continues to ​exist (an unpleasant ​feeling)
  • Continuum - a continuous sequence
  • Incentive - a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something
  • Withhold - to ​refuse to give something or to ​keep back something
  • Violation - the act of doing something that is not allowed by a law or rule
  • Come to light - to ​become ​known ​publicly
  • Severely - strictly or harshly
  • Errant - behaving ​wrongly in some way
  • Prevalence - happening often
  • Modicum - a small quantity of a particular thing (something Good)
  • Recourse - a source of help in a difficult situation
  • Detrimental - causing ​harm or ​damage
  • Emphasis - special importance / value given to something
  • Adverse - having a ​negative or ​harmful ​effect on something
  • Dipped - to go down to a ​lower ​level
  • Decennial - happening every ten ​years
  • Declined - reduced
  • Scrupulous - doing everything ​correctly and ​exactly as it should be done
  • Compliance - obeying a law / rule
  • Conception - the creation of child
  • Pre-Natal - before birth (related to pregnancey)

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