English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "The case against Ashok Chavan"
Topic 2 : "A jobs scheme that steadied India"
- Accord - an official agreement
- Successor - a person who follows next in order
- Assessment - the action of evaluating
- Twists and turns - complicated dealings
- Scandal - an actio that causes a public feeling of shock and strong moral disapproval
- Ought to - need to
- Accountability - responsibility
- Alleged - said (without proof)
- Quid pro quo - a favour or advantage granted in return for something
- Derailed - to prevent a plan or process from succeeding
- Declined - politely refused
- Conspiracy - the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal
- Nexus - an important connection between group of things
- Derived - to get something
- Uphold - confirm or support
- Sanction - official permission or approval for an action
- Demitted - resign from (an office or position)
- Frivolous - not having any serious purpose or value
- Ostensible - appearing to be one thing when it is really something else
- Bugbear - a particular thing that annoys or upsets you
- Legitimate - reasonable and acceptable
- Abolished - to end an activity officially
- Probity - the quality of having strong moral principles (honesty)
Topic 2 : "A jobs scheme that steadied India"
- Living up to something - to be as good as something / someone hopes
- Livelihood - the way someone earns the money people need to pay for food, a place to live, clothing, etc
- Sceptics - people who questions or doubts something
- Prone - likely to experience a particular problem
- Varies - different from each other
- Asymmetry - lack of equality or equivalence between parts of something
- Uneven - not regular / equal
- Distress - a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain
- Drought - a long period when there is no rain
- Augment - to increase the size or value of something by adding something to it
- Sluggishness - moving or operating more slowly than usual and with less energy or power
- Outlay - an amount of money spent on something
- Slack - loose
- Decline - reduction [Note : In the above article Decline means to refuse politely]
- Regime - government
- Grudgingly - unwillingly
- Travesty - represent in a false way
- Flawed - not perfect (containing mistakes)
- Agrarian - relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming
- Efficacy - the ability to produce a desired or intended result
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