English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 11th September 2016
Topic 1 : "An office of loss"
Topic 2 : "ISRO makes India proud again"
Topic 1 : "An office of loss"
- Categorical - without any doubt
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Union Territory - an area in India that is ruled directly by the central government
- Rendered - considered (to become)
- Concede - to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true
- Legislators - people who have the power and authority to create new laws
- Set aside - to officially state that a particular legal decision will no longer be followed
- Suffered from something - to experience the effects of something bad
- Infirmity - physical or mental weakness
- Concurrence - agreement between people
- Barred - prevent or prohibit (someone) from doing something
- Stipulated - to say what is allowed or what is necessary
- Incurred - to experience something unpleasant as a result of something that you have done
- Disqualification - a situation in which someone is not allowed to take part in something because they have committed an offence or have done something that is not allowed by the rules
- Citing - to mention something as an example, explanation, or proof of something else
- Denied - to say that something is not true
- Rendered - to express, show, or perform something in a particular way
- Vulnerable - someone who is vulnerable is weak or easy to hurt physically or mentally
- Withheld - to refuse to give something
- Assent - agreement with or approval of a plan or suggestion
- Incurring - to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Executive - the part of government that makes certain that laws are being used as planned (The other two parts of government are the legislature and the judiciary.)
- Oversight - something that you do not notice or think of that causes problems later
- Exceeded - to go above an official limit
- Get around something - to find a way of dealing with a problem or of avoiding it
- Quagmire - a situation that is so difficult or complicated that you cannot make much progress
- Leeway - the amount of freedom that someone has to make their own decisions or to take action
- Inasmuch as - used for adding a comment that explains or makes clearer what you have just said
- Entail - to make something necessary, or to involve something
- Perquisite - an extra benefit that you get from your job
- Loss of face - the state of no longer being respected by people because of something that you have done
- Credibility - able to be believed or trusted
- Moral righteousness - the quality of being morally good or correct
- Propelled - to cause something to happen
Topic 2 : "ISRO makes India proud again"
- Milestone - an event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process
- Equipped - having the necessary tools / equipment, etc
- Indigenous - developed in a place or country without the help of other
- Cryogenic - low temperature
- Departure - an occasion when someone leaves a place
- Workhorse - a very useful piece of equipment that you use a lot
- Consecutive - following one after another in order
- Elite - the best in a group
- Mastered - acquire complete knowledge or skill in something (a subject, technique, or art)
- Structural - related to the structure of something
- Thermal - relating to heat
- Integrity - the quality of being whole and complete
- Combustion - the chemical process in which substances mix with oxygen in the air to produce heat and light
- Likewise - in the same way
- Igniting - to make something start to burn
- Sustaining - to provide the conditions in which something can happen or exist
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Daunting - very difficult
- Payload - the equipment or people in a space vehicle
- Soil - a country
- Unlike - different from someone or something else
- Propellant - a substance used for making something move forwards, for example fuel for sending a rocket into space
- Impulse - something that is the driving force behind something else
- Thrust - to put something somewhere with a quick hard push
- Lack of something - a situation in which you do not have something
- Take place - to happen
- Rely on something - to depend on something
- Tremendously - extremely /very much
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