English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Demonetisation — an unkind postscript"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Angela Merkel’s challenge"
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Unkind - not treating someone very well; not considering someone's feelings
- Postscript - information added to the end of a story, article, or report
- Confluence - a situation in which two or more things come together
- Legal tender - the money that can be officially used in a country
- Caveat - a warning to consider something before taking any more action
- Fathom - to understand someone or why someone acts as they do
- Constitute - to form or make something
- Opting - making a choice / chose
- Disclose - to give information to people, especially information that was secret
- Unaccounted - unpaid
- Amnesty - a fixed period of time during which people are not punished for committing a particular crime
- Tendency - an aspect of your character that you show by behaving in a particular way
- Queued up - to wait for something in a queue
- Overstretched - not having enough money, people, equipment, etc
- Cope - to deal successfully with a difficult situation
- Diktat - an order that must be obeyed
- Arbitrary - based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason
- Nevertheless - despite what has just been said or referred to
- Audit - an official examination of the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Tantamount - to have the same bad qualities or effect as something else
- Outsourcing - a situation in which a company employs another organization to do some of its work, rather than using its own employees to do it
- Ostensible - appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else
- Scrutinised - to examine something very carefully
- Stipulated - to say what is allowed or what is necessary
- Altogether - completely
- Spooked - to suddenly feel frightened or nervous
- Prospect - the idea of something that will or might happen in the future
- Skewed - facts, information, or results that are skewed are not accurate because they have been affected by something
- Flip-flop - to change a plan completely
- Panic - a sudden strong feeling of fear that prevents reasonable thought and action
- Gambit - something that you say or do in an attempt to gain an advantage
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Angela Merkel’s challenge"
- Claim somebody's life - if a violent event, fighting, or a disease claims someone's life, it kills that person
- Spate - a larger number of events than usual, especially unpleasant ones, happening at about the same time
- Liberal - respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour
- Immigration - the process of examining your passport and other documents to make certain that you can be allowed to enter the country, or the place where this is done
- Diplomatic - involving diplomats or the management of the relationships between countries
- Acumen - skill in making correct decisions and judgments in a particular subject, such as business or politics
- Implications - an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it directly
- Measured - careful and controlled, or not fast
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- Eurozone - the countries belonging to the European Union that use the euro as their unit of money
- Pilloried - to severely criticize someone, especially in a public way
- Conservative - not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change
- Indulgence - an occasion when you allow or do not mind someone's failure or bad behaviour
- Profligate - spending money in a way that wastes it and is not wise
- Multilateral - involving more than two groups or countries
- Negotiated - happening or existing as a result of formal discussions
- Bailout - the act of helping a person or organization that is in difficulty, usually by giving or giving or lending money
- Protester - someone who shows that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Placard - a large piece of card, paper, etc. with a message written or printed on it, often carried in public places by people who are complaining about something
- Hitherto - until now or until a particular time
- Cautious - careful to avoid problems or danger
- Indecisive - unable to make decisions
- Spontaneous - happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without being forced
- Tragic - causing or involving great sadness, because someone suffers or dies
- Refugee - a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war
- Choppy - with a lot of small, rough waves caused by the wind
- Mediterranean - the sea surrounded by southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia
- Integral - forming an essential part of something and needed to make it complete
- Alienated - feeling that you do not belong in a particular society, place, or group
- Allies - a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war
- Paradoxically - used for saying that something is strange because it is the opposite of what you expect
- Xenophobic - a strong fear and dislike of people from other countries and cultures
- Fluid - smooth and continuous
- Scenario - a description of possible actions or events in the future
- Staunchly - strongly
- Prospects - the possibility of being successful, especially at work
- Rallying - to (cause to) come together in order to provide support
- Anxious - worried and nervous
- Cash in - to use an opportunity to make a profit or gain an advantage
- Tragedy - a very sad event or situation, especially one involving death or suffering
- Instinct - the way people or animals naturally react or behave, without having to think or learn about it
- Pluralistic - the belief that the existence of different types of people within the same society is a good thing
- Underpin - to give support, strength, or a basic structure to something
- Unequivocal - clear, definite, and without doubt
- Sexual orientation - the fact of someone preferring to have sexual relationships either with men, or with women, or with both
- Resonate - to continue to have a powerful effect or value
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
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