English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in the Hindu on 29th May 2016.
Topic 1 : "Awash in red ink"
- Awash - covered with a liquid (here red ink)
- Red ink - * this is a slang term denoting a financial loss
- Regulatory - controlling
- Forbearance - the quality of being patient and self controlled
- Restructured - organized differently
- Pile - objects positioned one on top of another / a lot of something
- Stressed asset - an account where principal and/or interest remains overdue for more than 30 days
- Manifold - many and of several different types
- Provision - the action of providing or supplying something for use
- Sizeable - large
- Declines - to gradually become less / lower
- Plunge - to become lower in value or level very suddenly and quickly
- Non-performing assets - a loan for which the principal or interest payment remained overdue for a period of 90 days
- Parlance - a group of words or style of speaking used by a particular group of people
- Defaulted - to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that you legally have to do
- Repayment - the action of paying back a loan
- Offing - likely to happen soon
- Overhauling - overtaking
- Inflicting - to force someone to experience something very unpleasant
- Evident - easily seen or understood
- For instance - for example
- Disclosure - the action of making new or secret information known
- Distress - a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain
- Undergird - to strengthen or support (something) from below
- Cognisant - having knowledge or awareness
- Magnitude - the great size or extent of something
- Lock-step - agreeing completely with someone
- Autonomous - having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs
- Brief - a set of instructions given to somebody about a job or task
- Ensuring - to make something sure to happen
- Ring-fenced - guarantee that (funds allocated for a particular purpose) will not be spent on anything else
- Bankruptcy - a legal process involving a person or business that is unable to repay their debts
- Defaulter - someone who does not pay interest or other money that they owe
- Liquidation - to cause a business to close, so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts
- Backing - support
- Clutch - to take hold of something tightly
- Infusion - the act of adding one thing to another to make it stronger or better
- Fiscal - relating to government revenue, especially taxes
- Deficit - the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small
- Underwrite - sign and accept that you are legally responsible for something (so guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs)
Topic 2 : "Enter the superbug ?"
- Superbug - a type of bacteria that causes an illness that cannot be cured by antibiotics
- Sound alarm bells - if something rings/sounds alarm bells, it makes you start to worry because it is a sign that there may be a problem
- Resistant - not affected by something
- Last resort - a final course of action, used only when all else has failed
- Colistin - a 50 year-old antibiotic that is being used increasingly as a 'last-line' therapy to treat infections, when essentially no other options are available
- Chemotherapy - the treatment of diseases using chemicals
- Played down - represented as being less important than in reality
- Mutation - a permanent change in something
- Insurmountable - too great to be overcome
- Dreaded - to feel extremely worried or frightened about something that is going to happen
- Anticipated - to imagine or expect that something will happen
- Emergence - the fact of something becoming known or starting to exist
- Unchecked - if something harmful is unchecked, it is continuing or increasing without or despite any limits or attempts to prevent it
- Livestock - animals and birds that are kept on a farm, such as cows, sheep, or chickens
- Lancet - a small knife with two cutting edges and a sharp point that a doctor uses when cutting the skin
- Significantly - by a large amount
- Emerged - move out of or away from something and become visible
- Administered - to control the operation or arrangement of something
- Veterinary - relating to the diseases, injuries, and treatment of farm and domestic animals
- Indiscriminate - not showing careful thought or planning, especially so that harm results
- Fast-track - the quickest route to a successful position
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