English Vocabulary from Indian Express 12th to 17th September 2016

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Hello Friends, I am Pratik Ankar. Here I am sharing the English Vocabulary from Indian Express from 12th to 17th 2016. Happy Reading :) 

The Indian Express : 12 September 2016

You can Read the Editorials of 12th September 2016 from HERE

Unequal by law.

• Biased – Unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something.
• Compensate – Given someone something typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred.
  
• Exclusionary – The process or state of excluding or being excluded.
• Assistive – Lending aid, helping.
• Ethos – The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations.
• Articulated – A person having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.
• Prominent – Important, famous.
• Reek – A foul smell / smoke.
• Layman – A person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.
• Contravention – An action that violates a law, treaty, or other ruling.
• Breach – An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.
• Inviolable – Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored.
• Enticed – Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.
• Coerced – Persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threat.
• Altruistic – Showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well being of others; unselfish.

An unsolicited response.

• Rotten – Suffering from decay.
• Subtly – Deceitfully; delusively.
• Peril – Serious and immediate danger.
• Revelation – A surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way.
• Bickering – Argue about petty and trivial matters.
• Cognisant – Having knowledge or being aware of.
• Rectitude – Morally correct behavior or thinking.
• Cudgel – A short thick stick used as weapon.
• Platitude – A remark or statement.
• Impeachment – Impediment, obstruction.
• Wield – Hold and use ( a weapon or tool ).
• Err – Be mistaken or incorrect.
• Whim – A sudden desire or change of mind.
• Caprice – A sudden and unaccountable change or mood or behavior.
• Stellar – Relating to stress.
• Ilk – A type of people or things similar to those already referred to.
• Dire – Extremely serious or urgent situation.
• Scrambling – Make something jumbled or muddled.
• Antiquated – Old fashioned or outdated.
• Quaint – Attractively unusual or old fashioned.
• Opacity – The condition of lacking transparency or translucence.

The Indian Express : 13 September 2016

You can Read the Editorials of 13th September 2016 from HERE

Corrosive Impunities.

• Corrosive – Tending to cause corrosion.
• Impunity – Exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.
• Exemption – The process of freeing from obligation or liability imposed on others.
• Flaunt – Display something ostentatiously.
• Presage – A sign or warning that something, typically something bad will happen.
• Animosity – Strong hostility.
• Macabre – Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.
• Weft – The crosswire threads on a loom over and under which other thread are passed to make cloth.
• Atrocity – An extremely wicked or cruel act.
• Inflicted – Cause something unpleasant or painful to be suffered by someone or something.
• Slew – A violent or uncontrollable sliding movement.
• Rhetorical – Art of effective speaking or writing.
• Crass – Lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence.
• Derogatory – Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.
• Ambivalence – The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
• Espoused – Adopt or support /  marry.
• Decisive – Settling an issue; producing a definite result.
• Comatose – Of or in a state of deep unconsciousness for a prolonged or indefinite period, especially as a result of severe injury or illness.
• Confine – Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits or space, scope, quantity, or time.
• Exerting – Apply or bring to bear a force, influence, or quality.
• Centrifugal – Moving or tending to move away from a center.
• Splinter – Break or cause to break into small sharp fragments.
• Speculations – The forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
• Flogging – Beat with whip or stick as punishment or torture.
• Muster – Assemble troops, especially for inspection or in preparation for battle.
• Complicit – Involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

Beginning a conversation.

• Delegation – A body or representatives or delegates.
• Conference – A formal meeting for discussion.
• Aspersion – An attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
• Parley – Hold a conference with the opposing side to discuss terms.
• Convened – Come or bring together for a meeting or activity. Assemble.
• Repeal – Revoke a law or congressional law.
• Interlocutor – A person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
• Chauvinism – Exaggerated or aggressive patriotism.
• Abrogation – The act or repeal by authority.
• Jingoistic – Extreme patriotism.
• Dissipated – Overindulging in sensual pleasures.

The Indian Express : 14 September 2016

You can Read the Editorials of 14th September 2016 from HERE

Accountability of justice.

• Luminaries – A person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere / artificial light.
• Cohort – A supporter or companion.
• Sentinel – A soldier or guard placed to keep watch.
• Qui vive – On the alert or lookout.
• Sovereign – Possessing supreme or ultimate power.
• Demarcation – The action of fixing the boundary or limits of something.
• Eroded – Gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land).
• Plenary – A meeting at which all the members of group or organization are present.
• Wield – Hold and use a weapon or tool.
• Concomitant – Naturally accompanying or associated.
• Curtails – Reduce in extent or quantity.
• Discretion – The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation.
• Enshrine -  Place (a revered or precious object) in an appropriate receptacle.
• Oligarchy – A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
• Aristocracy – The highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
• Covert – Not openly acknowledged or displayed.
• Eminent – Famous and respected person within a particular sphere or profession.
• Borne – Carried or transported by.
• Dissent – The expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.
• Incongruous – Not in harmony or keeping with surroundings or other aspects of something.

The people’s champion.

• Striving – Make great efforts to achieve or obtain something.
• Brutally – Cruelly.
• Intimidated – Frighten or overawe someone.
• Sartorial – Relating to tailoring.
• Daunting – Seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation.
• Fuchsia – A shrub with pendulous tubular flowers that are typically of two contrasting colors.
• Distraught – Extremely worried, nervous, or upset.
• Fatalistic – Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• Wrenching – A sudden violent twist or pull.
• Mused – Be absorbed in thought.
• Traumatic – Emotionally disturbing or distressing.
• Prevail – Prove more powerful than opposing forces; be victorious.
• Unvarnished – Not covered with varnish.
• Deferential – Showing deference, respectful.

The Indian Express : 15 September 2016

You can Read the Editorials of 15th September 2016 from HERE

With enemies like these.

• Diminish – Make or become less.
• Plummeting – A steep and rapid fall or drop.
• Inflated – Distended through being filled with air or gas.
• Leaning – A tendency or partially of a particular kind.
• Parochialism – Narrow mindedness.
• Travesty – A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.
• Garner – A storehouse / gather or collect.
• Tenacity – The quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly.
• Reek – Smell strongly or smoke.
• Buffoonery – Behavior that is ridiculous but amusing.
• Portend – Be a sing or warning that is likely to happen.
• Lament – A passionate expression of grief of sorrow.
• Battering – A gradual backward slope in a wall or similar structure.
• Incarnation – The state of being confined in prison.
• Imputing – Represent something as being done, caused or processed by someone.
• Floundering – Struggle helplessly or clumsily in water of mud.
• Reconcile – Restore friendly relation between.
• Statism – The principle that the government should own or control most of a country’s industry and economy.
• Aura – The distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing, or place.
• Sedition – Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
• Skullduggery – Understand or unscrupulous behavior; trickery.

Rampage of day biters.

• Robust – Strong and healthy.
• Contemporary – Living or occurring at the same time.
• Epidemic – Of, relating to, or the nature of an epidemic.
• Excruciating – Intensely painful.
• Contorted – Twist or bend out of its normal shape.
• Stooped – Bend one’s head or body forward and downward.
• Congenital – Present from birth.
• Perinatal – Of or relating to the time, usually a number of week, immediately before and after birth.

Note: No paper on 16th Sept. 2016

The Indian Express : 17 September 2016

You can Read the Editorials of 8th September 2016 from HERE

The forgotten slogan.

• Aspirant – A person who has ambitions to achieve something.
• Millstone – Each of two circular stone used for grinding grain, a heavy and inescapable responsibility.
• Imminently – About to happen, overhanging.
• Attainable – Able to be attained; achievable.
• Malaise – A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
• Lethargic – Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic.
• Tangled – A confused mess of something twisted together.
• Outworn – Out of date, last longer than.
• Inept – Having or showing no skills; clumsy.
• Inducting – Admit someone formally to a position or organization install in a seat or room.
• Diffused – Spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
• Raison D’être – The purpose that justifies a thing’s existence.
• Behemoth – A huge monstrous creature.
• Impound – Seize and take legal custody of something because an infringement of a law or regulation.
• Absurd – (of an idea or suggestion) wildly unreasonable, illegal, or inappropriate.
• Seductive – Tempting and attractive.
• Dictum – A formal pronouncement from an authority source.

The bilateral trade.

• Endorsing – Declare one’s public approval or support of.
• Cognisance – Knowledge, awareness, or notice.
• Conceded – Admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it.
• Precluded – Prevent from happening, make impossible.
• Fora – A place, meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be changed.
• Carapace – The hard upper shell of a turtle, crustacean.
• Bounty – Generosity; liberality.
• Disavow – Deny any responsibility or support for.
• Revert – Return to previous state.
• Covert – Not openly acknowledged or displayed.
• Futility – Pointlessness or uselessness.

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