English Vocabulary from
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Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Waiting for Rahul"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The long battle for Raqqa"
- Indeed - used to express that something is correct
- Shielding - protecting
- Electoral - relating to an election
- Seemingly - appearing to be something, especially when this is not true
- Ascension - the process of moving to a higher level or position
- Apprehensive - feeling worried about something
- Hankering - a strong feeling of wanting something
- Blame - to say or think that someone or something is responsible for an accident, problem, or bad situation
- Reckoning - a calculation or measurement
- Inevitable - impossible to avoid or prevent
- Reconciled - to find a way in which two situations or beliefs that are opposed to each other can agree and exist together
- Responsive - making a positive and quick reaction to something or someone
- Lineage - the people in your family who lived in the past, especially when you come from a rich or important family
- Fractious - easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining
- Legitimacy - ability to be defended with logic or justification
- Willingness - readiness (the quality or state of being prepared to do something)
- Assign - to give someone a job / work to do
- Preservation - the act of keeping something the same or of preventing it from being damaged
- Solely - involving nothing except the person or thing mentioned
- Antithesis - the exact opposite of something
- Plunge - to fall quickly from a high position
- Wholeheartedly - enthusiastically and completely
- Get hands dirty - to do physical work
- Taking blame - to take the responsibility for something that happens (especially something bad)
- Synonymous - having the same meaning / closely connected with each other
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The long battle for Raqqa"
- Recapture - to use force to take control of an area again
- Backed - supported
- Coalition - the joining together of different political parties or groups for a particular purpose, usually for a limited time
- Offensive - used for attacking
- On the cards - to be likely to happen
- Troops - soldiers on duty in a large group
- Weapon - any object used in fighting or war, such as a gun, bomb, knife, etc
- Battle - a fight between two armies in a war
- Strategy - a plan or method for achieving something, especially over a long period of time
- Choke - to stop someone or something from developing or being successful
- Consistently - continuing steadily in the same way
- Territorial - relating to the land of a particular country
- Retreat - to avoid a dangerous, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation, especially by moving away from it
- Upper hand - control or an advantage over a person or situation (if you have the upper hand, you have more power than anyone else and so have control)
- Defend - to protect someone or something against attack or criticism
- Certain - having no doubts that something is true
- Resistance - the ability not to be affected or harmed by something
- Ferocious - frightening and violent
- Ideologically - related to a set of political, cultural, or religious beliefs
- Ongoing - happening at the present moment
- Breaching - the act of breaking a law, rule, or agreement
- Air-borne - in the air, or carried by air or wind or by an aircraft
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Civilian - someone who does not belong to the armed forces or the police
- Casualty - someone who is injured or killed in an accident or military action
- Pressing - urgent or needing to be dealt with immediately
- Militia - a military force whose members are trained soldiers but who often have other jobs
- Dilemma - a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things
- Dubious - not completely good, safe, or honest
- Derail - to prevent something from continuing in the way that it was planned
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