English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were No Editorials in The Hindu on 20th March 2016
Topic 1 : "The challenge in Jammu & Kashmir"
- Of late - recently
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known
- Strategically - in a planned manner
- Significant - sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention
- Undoubtedly - without doubt
- Separatist - a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of caste, religion, or gender
- Discourse - communication in speech or writing
- Mainstream - the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and considered as normal
- Demise - a person's death
- Culminated - reach a climax point (at the end)
- Crisis - an extremely difficult or dangerous point in a situation
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time
- Accusing - saying that you think someone has done something bad
- Abiding - stick to a specific emotion / feeling without changing
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries / organizations, formally approved and signed by their leaders
- Estrangement - to have had a serious argument with someone and no longer friendly with them
- Unpopular - not liked by many people
- Vague - not clearly expressed / known / decided
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
- Forthright - honest or direct in behaviour
- Insurgency - an occasion when a group of people attempt to take control of their country by force
- Deficit - the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small
- Battered - damaged (hurt by being repeatedly hit)
- Skilfully - with great skill
- Successive - following one another
- Backing - help / support
- Bilateral - involving two countries / parties
- Vulnerable - exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed
- Alienation - the act of making someone stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Scuttle - to escape
- Subvert - try to destroy or damage something (especially an established political system)
- Horse-trading - unofficial discussion in which people make agreements that provide both sides with advantages
- Cultivate - to try to develop and improve something
- Bargain - an agreement between two or more people or groups as to what each will do for the other
- Deadlock - a situation in which agreement in an argument cannot be reached
- Ramification - the possible results of an action
Topic 2 : "Smart rate cut in small savings schemes"
- Pursue - follow or chase (someone or something)
- Boldly - with confidence (not frightened of danger)
- Corpus - a collection of written texts
- Align - arrange / adjust
- Averse - strongly disliking or opposed to
- Shedding - to get rid of something
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Perspective - point of view
- For instance - for example
- Excluded - removed from consideration
- Threshold - at which something starts to happen
- Availing - using / taking advantage of something
- Abandoned - left
- Context - the situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it
- Constituency - a group of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body
- Spectrum - range
- Spared - to not hurt or destroy something
- Intent - the plan to do something
- Emerge - to appear
- Rallying point - something that people are attracted to and come together
- Foster - encourage the development of something
- Wish away something - to do nothing and hope that a problem will disappear
- Concerns - worries
- Thrown up - to produce new problems or ideas
- Defend - to protect someone or something against attack or criticism
- Tandem - having two things arranged one in front of the other
- Backed - supported
- Slashed - to cut / reduce something
- Reluctant - not willing to do something
- Mobilisation - the process of organizing and preparing something
- Transmit - to pass something from one place to another
- Distortions - changes
- Inevitably - unavoidably
- Usher - to guide
- Stand firm - to remain in the same place or at the same level
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