English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 2nd October 2016 (Sunday)
Topic 1 : "No short cuts in Maharashtra"
Topic 2 : "OPEC’s roll of the dice"
Topic 1 : "No short cuts in Maharashtra"
- Provocation - an action or statement that is intended to make someone angry
- Rally - a public meeting that a lot of people go to in order to support someone or something or to protest against someone or something
- Numerically - involving or expressed in numbers
- Dominant - more important, powerful, or successful than the other people or things of the same type
- Accused - a person or group of people who are charged with a crime
- Protesters - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Pretext - a pretended reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason
- Reiterate - to say something again, once or several times
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Scrapping - to decide not to continue with something such as a plan or an event
- Fuelled - to make something increase or become worse, especially something unpleasant
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Backwardness - the state of not being developed, modern, or advanced
- Cross-section - a group that contains an example of all or most types of people or things
- Inability - the fact of not being able to do something
- Adequate - good enough or large enough for a particular purpose
- Sluggish - not performing or reacting as well as usual
- Agrarian - relating to or involving farming or farmers
- Agitation - worry and anxiety
- Affirmative - relating to a statement that shows agreement or says "yes"
- Determinant - something that controls or decides how something else will develop or what result it will have
- Key - important
- Perceived - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Assertion - a statement that you strongly believe is true
- Sketchy - not detailed or complete
- Conviction - a decision by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime
- Certainly - used for emphasizing that something is definitely true or will definitely happen
- Spontaneous - happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without being forced
- Dividend - a share of the profits
- Well-advised - showing good judgment:
- Distress - a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain
- Scrutiny - the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information about it
Topic 2 : "OPEC’s roll of the dice"
- OPEC - Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Roll of the dice - a risky attempt to achieve something
- Cartel - a group of people or companies who all agree to sell something at the same price so that they can all make profits without competing with one another
- Barrel - in the oil industry, a barrel of oil is equal to 159 litres
- Caught someone by surprise - to happen unexpectedly
- Well-acknowledged - well known or accepted by many people
- Decisive - able to make decisions quickly and confidently
- Staunch - always loyal in supporting a person, organization, or set of beliefs or opinions
- Crude - oil from rocks underground in a natural state that has not yet been treated
- Halve - to reduce something to half its original size, number, or amount
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Disparate - disparate things belong to very different groups or classes
- Prosperous - rich and successful
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Fractious - easily upset or annoyed
- Albeit - although
- Desperate - very serious or bad
- Tacit - expressed or understood without being said directly
- Resiliently - showing the quality of being able to return quickly to a previous good condition after problems
- Acreage - an area of land, often measured in acres
- Fiscal deficit - a fiscal deficit occurs when a government's total expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates
- Wage - an amount of money that you earn for working, usually according to how many hours or days you work each week or month
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Exempting - to allow someone to ignore something such as a rule, obligation, or payment
- Cap - a limit on the amount of money that you can spend or charge
- Curb - to control or limit something
- Reviving - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Hinge - attach or join with
- Cartel - a group of similar independent companies who join together to control prices and limit competition
- Lacking - if something important or useful is lacking, it does not exist or is not available
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