English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Staking claim to Twenty20 supremacy"
Topic 2 : "Time to deliver on Women’s Bill"
- Stake a 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
- Supremacy - the leading or controlling position
- Triumph - a great victory or achievement
- Outfit - team
- Evidence - one or more reasons for believing that something is true / not true
- Subcontinent - a large area of land that is part of a continent, often referring to South Asia
- Merely - just / only
- Dominance - power and influence over others
- Have designs on something - aim to obtain / achieve something
- Threatened - to tell someone that you will cause problems if they do not do what you want
- Coup - an unexpectedly successful achievement
- Adept - very skilled or proficient at something
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual
- Firepower - effective power or force
- Nerveless - confident
- Deployed - move into position for some action
- Certainty - something that cannot be doubted
- Far off - a great distance away
- Overwhelming - very great in amount
- Vulnerability - the condition in which you will be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt or attacked
- Heart warming - emotionally rewarding
- Eye-catching - very attractive or noticeable
- Perdition - a state of punishment that goes on for ever
- Sheer - completely / nothing other than
- Spectacle - an unusual or unexpected event or situation that attracts attention
- Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen
- Encore - a repeated or additional performance at the end
- Remote - small in amount / very less
- From within - by the people who belong to an organization / team and not by people from outside it
- Complacency - a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder
- Unravel - make something known or understood
- Adept - having a natural ability to do something that needs skill
- Moreover - also and more importantly
Topic 2 : "Time to deliver on Women’s Bill"
- Clockwork - very regularly, or at exactly the planned times
- Precision - the quality or condition of being exact and accurate
- Duly - in accordance with what is required or appropriate
- Floated - to suggest a plan or an idea to be considered
- Reviving - restore to life or consciousness
- Legislature - the group of people in a country who have the power to make and change laws
- Pilot - test a scheme before introducing it more widely
- Amid - surrounded by
- Obstructive - trying to stop someone from doing something by causing problems for them
- Theatrics - behaviour that is intended to get attention (acting)
- Thereafter - after that time
- Mopping up - the activity of dealing with a small number of people, problems, etc. that remain after most of them have been defeated or solved
- Aisle - a long, narrow space between rows of seats
- Polarised - to divide people into two completely opposing groups
- Affirm - to publicly show your support for an opinion or idea
- Fidelity - honest support
- Stumbling block - something that prevents action or agreement
- Patriarchal - ruled or controlled by men
- Tremendous - very great in amount or level, or extremely good
- Manhandling - to touch or hold someone roughly and with force
- Name-calling - using abusive language (insulting)
- Posturing - behaviour
- Regardless - despite (not being affected by something)
- Uniformly - in same manner (not changing or different in any way)
- Chauvinistic- believing that women are naturally less important, intelligent, or able than men
- Diced - to do something extremely dangerous and silly
- Rationalised - to try to find reasons to explain your behaviour, decisions, etc
- Caution - great care and attention
- Appropriated - to make something suitable or fitting for a particular purpose
- Proxy - a person authorized to act on behalf of another (representative)
- Prejudice - an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling
- Fray - fight
- Impact - influence
- Envisioned - imagine as a future possibility (visualized)
- Mandatory - compulsory
- Empowering - give someone the authority or power to do something
- Testimony - evidence / proof of something
- Affirmative - supportive
- Usher - show or guide (someone) somewhere
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