English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The perils of plastic"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Bird flu and what we must do"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The perils of plastic"
- The perils of something - danger or problems connected with a particular thing / activity
- Breach - an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship
- Wake-up call - a bad experience that warns someone to change something, usually the way that they behave
- Fraudulently - dishonestly and illegally
- Disconcerting - making you feel worried, confused, or surprised
- Acknowledge - to accept or admit that something exists, is true, or is real
- Initiate - to make something start
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Galling - annoying
- Urging - to advise someone very strongly about what action they should take
- Accord - to treat someone specially
- Infiltrate - to secretly join an organization or go into a place in order to find out information about it or damage it
- Malware - software such as a virus that is designed to damage or destroy information on a computer
- Third-party - a third person or organization less directly involved in a matter than the main people or organizations that are involved
- Vendor - a company or person that sells a particular product or service
- Coordinating - to make many different things work effectively as a whole
- Forensic - relating to the use of scientific methods to solve crimes and to find out who committed them
- Audit - an official examination of the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- At stake - at risk
- In concert - together
- Harness - to control something
- Financial inclusion - the delivery of FINANCIAL services at affordable costs to the sections of disadvantaged and low income groups
- Subsidy - an amount of money that the government or another organization pays to help to reduce the cost of a product or service
- Curb - to control or limit something that is harmful
- Evasion - the practice of avoiding doing something that you should do
- Context - situation
- Instructive - giving useful information about something
- Clogging - to slow down progress or an activity
- Unaware - not realizing that something exists or is happening
- Catastrophic - causing a lot of damage, or making a lot of people suffer
- Embraced - to accept and include something
- The onus is on someone to do something - if the onus is on someone to do something, it is their responsibility or duty to do it
- Integrate - to connect or combine two or more things so that together they form an effective unit or system
- Inter-generational - relating to more than one generation
- Legacy - something such as a tradition or problem that exists as a result of something that happened in the past
- Seamless - changing or continuing very smoothly and without stopping
- Coordinated - to organize the different parts of a job or plan so that the people involved work together effectively
- Widespread - existing or happening in many places and/or among many people
- Reveal - make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others.
- Sophisticated - complicated and advanced
- Gestate - develop over a long period.
- Manifest - to show something clearly, through signs or actions
- Can ill-afford something - used for saying that someone should definitely not do something because it will cause problems
- Complacent - too confident and relaxed because you think you can deal with something easily, even though this may not be true
- Band-aid - a temporary way of dealing with a problem that will not really solve it
- Reappraise - to examine and judge something or someone again
- Heed - to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
- Promptly - immediately
- Shortcoming - a fault or problem that makes someone or something less effective
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Bird flu and what we must do"
- Flu - an infectious disease that makes you hot and cold, tired and weak
- Bird flu - a type of flu that affects chickens and some other birds and animals and can also infect humans
- Strain - pressure caused by a difficult situation
- Avian - relating to birds
- Influenza - flu
- Capable - able to do something
- Inflicting - to cause something unpleasant to happen
- Poultry - birds such as chickens that are used for meat or eggs
- Scare - to feel frightened
- Elsewhere - other places
- Triggered - started (something bad)
- Painted stork - a type of bird
- Containment - the process of controlling a situation that could become harmful or dangerous
- Formulate - to develop a plan, system, or proposal carefully, thinking about all of its details
- Husbandry - the activity of farming and caring for animals
- Dairying - he business of producing, storing, and distributing milk and its products.
- Fisheries - a place where fish are reared for commercial purposes
- Protocol - a set of rules for the correct way to behave on formal occasions
- Preventive - done so that something does not become worse or turn into a problem
- Outbreak - the sudden start of war, disease, violence etc
- Compensating - to pay someone money because they have suffered an injury or loss
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Endemic - (a disease or a condition) regularly found and very common among a particular group or in a particular area
- Mutate - to change from one thing or type of thing into another
- Vigilant - watching a person or situation very carefully so that you will notice any problems or signs of danger immediately
- Monitoring - to regularly check something in order to find out what is happening
- Overstate - to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is
- Migratory - having the characteristic of moving regularly to another place
- Waterfowl - a bird that lives or swims on water
- Waterbody - a body of water forming a physiographical feature (sea or a reservoir)
- Combat - fight
- Apex - the most important or successful
- Alacrity - quickly and with enthusiasm
- Apparatus - a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose
- Sound the alarm - to tell people about something dangerous that is happening
- Imminent - coming or likely to happen very soon
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Quell - to stop something, especially by using force
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