English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Kejriwal in Punjab"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Farewell with a message"
- Springboard - something that helps you to become successful
- Sworn in - when someone is sworn in, they make a formal promise to be honest or loyal, when starting a new official job
- Envisaged - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Rivalling - competing
- Dispirit - cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope
- Tenacious - a tenacious person is very determined and is not willing to stop when they are trying to achieve something
- Scaling up something - to increase the size, amount, or importance of something, usually an organization or process
- Setting his sights lower - to accept that you will only be able to get something less than you hoped for
- Merely - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- To take the stairs instead of elevator - to do something in a slow and calm way instead of hurrying
- Bid - competition
- Akin to something - similar to something
- Indulged - to become involved in something that people do not approve of
- Proximity - the state of being near in space or time
- Resonance - an emotional effect produced by something that reminds you of something else
- Victim - ssomeone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Riots - a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled public meeting
- Agrarian - relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming
- Crisis - a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering
- The forefront - the most noticeable or important position
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Groom - to prepare someone for a special job or activity
- Autocratic - ruling with complete power
- Inclined - feeling that you want to do something
- Run-in - if you have a run-in with someone, you have a serious argument with them or you get into trouble with them
- Jurisdiction - the authority of a court or official organization to make decisions and judgments
- Present a pretty picture - to make a situation or thing seem better than it is, often through exaggeration or lies
- Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen
- Livelihood - (the way someone earns) the money people need to pay for food, a place to live, clothing, etc
- Concerns - worries
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Farewell with a message"
- Farewell - used for saying goodbye to someone when you do not expect to see them again for a long time
- Stint - a fixed or limited period of time spent doing a particular job or activity
- Draws to an end - to end
- Addressed - to speak or write to someone
- Soaring - to quickly increase to a high level
- Inequality - the unfair situation in society when some people have more opportunities, money, etc. than other people
- Simmering - something that is simmering is controlled but may burst out at any time, often violently:
- Regression - a return to a previous or less developed state
- Intractable - very difficult or impossible to deal with
- Demit - to give up a job or position by telling your employer that you are leaving
- Debris - the broken pieces that are left when something large has been destroyed, especially by an explosion, fire, or accident
- Debacle - a complete failure, especially because of bad planning and organization
- Urge - to strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do a particular thing
- Corrosive - a corrosive substance contains chemicals that can cause damage
- Logjam - a situation in which one problem is stopping anything else from being done
- Congressional - relating to the US Congress
- Dysfunction - a problem or fault in a part of the body or an organization
- Grass-roots - the common or ordinary people
- Polarisation - to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups
- Agenda - a list of aims or possible future achievements
- Resistance - refusal to accept something new such as a plan, idea, or change
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry or rude way that shows you want to fight, attack, or argue with someone
- Surveillance - the process of carefully watching a person or place
- Seminal - new and different and influences others
- Sliver - very small
- Rebuffed - to refuse to talk to someone or do what they suggest
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about, and not other countries
- Inheriting - to have responsibility for a situation that someone has started and left for you to deal with
- Buckling - to suddenly become weak and bend
- Severe - very serious
- Recession - a period when the economy of a country is not successful and conditions for business are bad
- Buoy - to support something and make it more successful
- Turbulent - involving a lot of sudden changes, arguments, or violence
- Détente - an improvement in the relationship between two countries that in the past were not friendly and did not trust each other
- Imbued something with something - to fill someone or something with a particular quality or emotion
- Impunity - freedom from punishment or from the unpleasant results of something that has been done
- Arena - an activity that involves argument and discussion
- Thoughtful - carefully considering things
- Strived - to try very hard to do something or to make something happen
- Template - something that is used as a pattern or an example for something else
- Searing - extreme
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
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