English Vocabulary from
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Topic 1 : "Return of the Cauvery crisis"
Topic 2 : "The Grumbling 20"
- Cauvery - Kaveri river of South India
- Monsoon - rainy season
- Falling short - to fail to reach an amount or standard that was expected or hoped for, causing disappointment
- Deficient - not good enough
- Rushing - moving quickly
- Citing - to mention something as a reason why something has happened
- Crisis - a time of great suffering
- Erupting - to start suddenly with a lot of violence or noise
- Sporadic - happening sometimes; not regular or continuous
- Litigation - the process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made
- Ad hoc - done only when needed for a specific purpose, without planning or preparation
- Adjudication - to act as judge in a competition or argument, or to make a formal decision about something
- Mutual - belonging to two or more people
- Shortfall - a lack of something that you need or want
- Distress - 1 a feeling that you have when you are very unhappy, worried, or upset
- Ensure - to make sure that something happens or is done
- Award - a judgment given by a court of law
- Tribunal - a special law court organized to judge a particular case
- Deficiency - a state of not having, or not having enough, of something that is needed
- Pro rata - calculated according to the individual situation
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Regulatory - controlling
- Authority - a group of people with official responsibility for a particular area of activity
- Oversee - to watch or organize an activity to make sure that it is being done correctly
- Comprising - consisting
- Representative - someone who speaks or does something officially for another person or group of people
- Approach - to meet someone in order to do something such as make a request or business agreement
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Counterpart - a person, who has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization
- Contend - to compete in order to win something
- Betraying - if someone betrays something such as a promise, they do not do what they promised
- Desire - a strong feeling of wanting to have or to do something
- Empathy - the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation
- Dilly-dally - to waste time
- Notifying - to tell someone officially about something
- Devise - to invent a plan, system, object, etc., using your intelligence
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Depleting - reducing
- Acreage - an area of land, often measured in acres
- Intensive - involving
- Hold the key - to have control of something
- Initiative - a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem
- Hostility - opposition to something
- Hold sway - to be the main influence on people’s opinions or behaviour
Topic 2 : "The Grumbling 20"
- Grumbling - to complain about someone or something in an annoyed way
- Noble - behaving in an honest and brave way that other people admire
- Far-sighted - able to imagine what effects an action will have in the future so that you make good decisions
- Looming - (of something unwanted or unpleasant) about to happen soon and causing worry
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Doughty - determined and not easily frightened
- To take over the reins - to take the control of something
- Regulatory - controlling
- Reform - to make an improvement in something
- Degenerated - to become worse
- Divergent - different from each other
- Inhabitant - a person or animal that lives in a particular place
- Communiqué - an official statement, especially to newspapers, radio, or television
- Resistance - refusal to accept something new
- Excess - an amount that is more than acceptable, expected, or reasonable
- Climate - the general weather conditions usually found in a particular place
- Agenda - all the things that need to be done
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Disappearing - to no longer happen or exist
- Solidarity - agreement between and support for the members of a group, especially a political group
- Ratifying - to make an agreement official by signing it or formally accepting it
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising
- Contrarily - in opposite way
- Negotiator - someone who tries to help two groups who disagree to reach an agreement with each other
- Fobbed off something / someone - to convince someone to accept someone or something you want to get rid of
- Insist - to say firmly or demand forcefully
- Numerous - existing in large numbers
- Low-key - without much activity or reaction
- Enforcement - the process of making sure that something happens
- Advancing - moving forwards or progressing
- Erosion - reduction or destruction of something important
- Gathering - a group of people meeting together
- Vague - not clearly expressed, known, described, or decided
- Collaborative - involving people or groups working together to produce something
- Evolved - developed slowly
- Regulation - an official rule that controls the way that things are done
- Emerged from the ashes - to start exists again
- Meltdown - a sudden and complete failure of a company, organization, or system
- Put the brakes - to slow down or stop an activity
- Excessive - much more than is reasonable or necessary
- Outlived - to live or exist longer than someone or something
- Revert - to return to a previous state
- Overlapping - if two or more activities, subject overlap, they have some parts that are the same
- Conversation - a talk between two or more people (groups), usually a private and informal one
- Re-examine - to look at or think about something carefully again
- Recast - to change the way that someone or something is or appears to be
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