English Vocabulary from
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Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials.
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A closure of the Indian mind"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A decisive battle for Mosul"
- Closure - an act of closing something
- Pledging - to promise seriously and publicly to do something
- Talent - a person or people with a natural ability for being good at a particular activity
- Neighbouring - near each other
- Obviously - in a way that is easy to understand or see
- Last-ditch - a final try at achieving something difficult, when other attempts have already failed
- Salvage - to try to make a bad situation better
- Forthcoming - happening soon
- Rorschach test - a test of someone’s personality
- Pitch - the level or degree of activity or of someone’s emotions
- Divergent - different from each other
- Outright - without hiding your feelings
- Capitulation - to accept something or agree to do something unwillingly
- Mob - a large crowd of people that is dangerous or difficult to control
- Intolerance - disapproving of or refusing to accept ideas or ways of behaving that are different from your own
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a way of expressing strong disapproval
- Enforced - happening because of a situation that you cannot control or prevent
- Intimidated - feeling nervous or frightened of someone or something
- Diminishing - to become less important
- Uphold - to show that you support something such as an idea by what you say or do
- Liberal - respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour
- Compel - to force someone to do something
- For instance - for example
- Crackle - to be full of something such as nervousness or excitement
- Averring - to say that something is certainly true
- Counterpart - a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization
- Syncretic - the combining of different religions, cultures, or ideas
- Legacy -something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
- Persuading - to make someone agree to do something by giving them reasons why they should
- Renders - to make
- Vulnerable - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
- Scatter - separate and move quickly in different directions
- Bullying - behaviour that frightens or hurts someone smaller or weaker
- Ambivalent - feeling two different things about someone or something at the same time, for example that you like them and dislike them
- Liberalism - the act of making laws, systems, or opinions less serious
- Secularism - the belief that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political activities of a country
- Syncretism - the combining of different religions, cultures, or ideas
- Unrelenting - used for describing someone who continues to do something with a lot of determination
- Enmity - a feeling of hate
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "A decisive battle for Mosul"
- Decisive - able to make decisions quickly and confidently
- Territory - an area of land that is officially part of a country
- Significant - very important
- Bastion - a place where an army has strong defences
- Caliphate - an Islamic state, especially one ruled by a single religious and political leader
- Symbolised - to be considered as a typical or perfect example of something
- Combat - fight
- Sectarian - caused by disagreements among people from different religious groups
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time
- Offensive - unpleasant or insulting, and likely to make people upset or embarrassed
- Peshmerga - a nationalist Kurdish fighter
- Militias - a group of ordinary people who are trained as soldiers to fight in an emergency
- Barricade - to prevent people from getting into a city or an area
- Counter-terrorism - the actions and methods of a country that are aimed to stop the activities of people who use violence to achieve political aims
- Dislodge - to force someone out of a position of power
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things
- Armoured - an armoured vehicle, such as a tank or a car, is covered with layers of hard metal to protect it from attack
- Suffice - to be enough
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Complication - something that makes a process or activity more difficult to do, deal with, or understand
- Threaten - to be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone
- Transgression - to do something that is not allowed by a law, custom, or religion
- Sovereignty - the right of a country to rule itself
- Refugee - someone who leaves their country, especially during a war or other dangerous event
- Humanitarian - relating to efforts to help people who are living in very bad conditions and are suffering because of a war, flood, earthquake etc
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Reconstruction- the process of putting a country back into a good condition after a war
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