English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "An alliance of its time"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "An alliance of its time"
- Alliance - a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims
- War cry - a phrase or word shouted by people as they start to fight, intended to give them the strength and wish to fight harder
- Trek - to walk a long distance
- Maximalist - a person who holds extreme views and is not prepared to compromise (especially in politics)
- Incumbency - an official position
- Verdict - an official judgment
- Nerve-wracking - something that is difficult to do and causes a lot of worry for the person involved in it
- Perceive - to understand or think about something in a particular way
- Coterie - a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them
- Rebrand - to change the way that an organization, company, or product is seen by the public
- Mock - to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way
- Witless - stupid or showing no intelligence
- Administration - the activities involved in managing a business, organization, or institution
- Cracked - damaged
- Strategically - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport
- Showcase - to show the best qualities or parts of something
- Spoils - the benefits that someone gets when they win something
- Ideal - a perfect thing or situation
- Minorities - any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race, religion, or political beliefs
- Ballot - secret voting
- Tactically - in a way that relates to actions carefully planned to gain a specific end
- Nadir - the worst moment, or the moment of least hope and least achievement
- Transformational - able to produce a big change or improvement in a situation
- Leap - to move somewhere suddenly and quickly
- In a vacuum - existing separately, or considered separately, from other people, events, or ideas, and not influenced by them
- Formidable - causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, or difficult
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Globalisation’s new spokesman"
- Globalisation - the increase of trade around the world, especially by large companies producing and trading goods in many different countries
- Spokesman - someone who is chosen by a group or organization to speak officially to the public for them
- Forum - a situation or meeting in which people can talk about a problem or matter especially of public interest
- Timely - happening at the best possible moment
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Visionary - with clear ideas or hopes of how something should be done or how things will be in the future
- Uncertainty - a situation in which something is not known, or something that is not known or certain
- Chancellor - a person in a position of the highest or high rank, especially in a government or university
- Potential - someone's or something's ability to develop, achieve, or succeed
- Juncture - a particular point in time
- Take up the cudgels on behalf of something - to argue strongly in support of something
- Rising tide of something - an increase in the amount or strength of something, especially something that you must oppose
- Plenary - a plenary meeting is one at which all the members of a group or organization are present, especially at a conference
- Robust - strong
- Reassuring - making you feel less worried
- Perceive - to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something
- Fragile - easily damaged, broken, or harmed
- Running counter to something - to be in opposition to something
- Interpret - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Rebuke - to speak angrily to someone because you disapprove of what they have said or done
- Protectionism - the actions of a government to help its country's trade or industry by taxing goods bought from other countries
- Slump - to fall suddenly
- Underpin - to give support, strength, or a basic structure to something
- Reiterate - to say something again, once or several times
- Reform - to make an improvement, especially by changing a person's behaviour or the structure of something
- Emerging - starting to exist
- In contrast - used when you are comparing two things or people and saying that the second one is very different from the first
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Craft - to make or produce something skilfully
- Fundamentally - in a very important or basic way
- Tragic - very sad, often involving death and suffering
- Migration - movement from one region to another and often back again, esp. according to the season of the year
- Conflict - an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
- Diagnosis - a judgment about what a particular illness or problem is, made after examining it
- Reap - to get something as a result of something that you do
- Mobility - the ability to move freely
- Immigration - the act of someone coming to live in a different country
- Fallout -the unpleasant effects of something that has happened
- Demonstrable - able to be proved
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed in the past
- Prosperity - the situation of being successful and having a lot of money
- Redistribution - to change the way that something is shared between people, especially land or money
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal, or unkind
- Commensurate - in a correct and suitable amount compared to something else
- Step up to the podium - to take action when something needs to be done, even though this is difficult
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