English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Passport to reform"
- Reform - a change that is intended to make a system work more effectively
- Progressive - developing or happening gradually (slowly)
- Overdue - if something is overdue, it should have been done before now
- Impersonation - to attempt to cheat someone by pretending that you are another person
- Bureaucratic - involving a lot of complicated rules, details, and processes
- Impediments - something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult or impossible
- Cumbersome - slow or complicated and therefore inefficient.
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Severe - causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc
- Knock on the doors - to visit / to call for help
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
- Specious - seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false
- Harassment - behaviour that annoys or upsets someone
- Routine - a usual or fixed way of doing things
- Renewing - to arrange for something to continue for a longer period of time
- Laborious - needing a lot of time and effort
- Insist - to say strongly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say
- Consent - permission
- Decree - a judgment made by a court of law
- Comprising - to consists two or more things / people
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- Stipulation - to say exactly how something must be or must be done
- Obsolete - not in use any more
- Attested - to give proof or be evidence that something is true
- Notary - an official who has the legal authority to say that documents are correctly signed or true
- Magistrate - a person who acts as a judge in a law court that deals with crimes that are less serious
- Jettison - to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed
- Orphaned children - children whose parents are dead
- Orphanage - a home for children whose parents are dead or unable to care for them
- Adopted - an adopted child has been legally taken by another family to be taken care of as their own child
- Surrogate - a woman who has a baby for another person who is unable to become pregnant or have a baby
- In lieu of - instead of
- Irritant - something that causes trouble or makes you annoyed
- Ultimately - finally
- Ought to - have to
- Obtain - to get something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Behind Pakistan’s CPEC offer"
- Shun - to avoid something
- Enmity - a feeling of strong dislike or opposition between people
- Goodwill - friendly and helpful feelings
- Gesture - a movement that communicates a feeling
- Exhorting - to strongly encourage someone to do something
- At face value - for what something appears to be
- Dialogue - formal talks between opposing countries, political groups, etc
- Bilaterally - involving two groups or countries
- Deteriorated - to become worse
- Considerably - a lot
- Play down - to try to make a problem or difficult situation seem less important than it is
- Significance - importance
- Dissuade - to make someone not to do something
- Objectionable - unpleasant and offensive
- Disputed territory - an area that different countries claim belongs to them, so that there is a disagreement or war between them
- Rapidly - happening, moving, or acting quickly
- Embrace - to completely accept something such as a new belief, idea, or way of life
- Obstructionist - actions or behaviour that is intended to slow down or stop the progress of something
- Rhetorically - without expecting or needing an answer
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Subversion - the act of trying to destroy or damage an established system or government
- Nodal - at a place where lines, systems, or paths meet
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Blindside - to give someone an unpleasant surprise by doing something that they were not expecting
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