English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Cricket’s new order"
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Cricket’s new order"
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Sympathise - to support and agree with someone or something
- Defy - to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc
- Well-intended - trying to help but often making things worse
- Appointee - someone who has been chosen officially for a job or responsibility
- Arguable - if something is arguable, there could be some disagreement about it
- Auditor - someone whose job is to officially examine the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Chronicler - a writer of history, especially in the past
- Administer - to be responsible for managing a company, organization, or institution
- Oversee - to watch or organize a job or an activity to make certain that it is being done correctly
- Glib - speaking or spoken in a confident way, but without careful thought or honesty
- Eminence - the state of being famous, respected, or important
- Passion - a strong enthusiasm or interest
- Come up with something - to suggest or think of an idea or plan
- Draw up something - to prepare something, usually something official
- Interim - temporary
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Panel - a small group of people chosen to give advice, make a decision, or publicly discuss their opinions
- Rendered - to cause someone or something to be in a particular state
- Vulnerable - able to be easily physically, emotionally, or mentally hurt, influenced, or attacked
- Massive - very large in size, amount, or number
- Overreach - to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage
- Laudable - deserving to be praised or admired
- Cleansing - cleaning
- Credibility - able to be believed or trusted
- Deficit - a lack of a quality, skill, or ability that you should have
- Resistant - not wanting to accept something, especially changes or new ideas
- Revamping - to change or arrange something again, in order to improve it
- Fraught - full of problems, difficulties, or things that are confusing
- Conflict - an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Exploitation - the use of something in order to get an advantage from it
- In accordance with - following or obeying a rule, law, wish, etc
- Sweeping - affecting many things or people (large)
- Reluctance - unwillingness to do something
- Prima facie - based on what seems to be true, before a situation has been examined in detail
- Contempt - a feeling that someone or something is unimportant and deserves no respect
- Mere - only / just
- Office-bearer - a person who holds a position of authority and responsibility in a government or other organization
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Demonetisation’s long shadow"
- Demonetisation - to officially stop using particular notes or coins, or a particular currency
- Economic Survey - a document which reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months and summarizes the performance on major development programs
- On the eve of something - on the day before an important event, or during the period of time just before it
- Deify - to consider someone or something to be so important that they are almost like a god
- Demonise - to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil
- Radical - believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change
- Punitively - relating to or causing punishment or great difficulty
- Illicit activity - an activity that people do not approve of
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Reliable - trusted or believed
- Emphatically - very firmly and clearly
- Asserts - to state strongly that something is true
- Expeditiously - quickly and effectively
- Fiscal - relating to money and financial matters, especially taxes
- Baseline - an imaginary line used as a starting point for making comparisons
- Inappropriate - not suitable in a particular situation
- Contend - to claim that something is true
- Monetary - relating to a country’s money and to the systems that a country uses for controlling its money supply
- Forecast - a statement about what is likely to happen, based on available information and usually relating to the weather, business, or the economy
- Ought to - have to
- Devoting - to use something for a particular purpose
- Ambit - the range or limits of the influence of something
- Overzealous - doing something so much that it causes problems
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Isolationism - a country’s policy of not having political or economic relationships with other countries
- Nativism - a policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
- Threaten - to be likely to harm or destroy something
- Conservatively - not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change
- Caveat - a warning to consider something before taking any more action
- Lingering - lasting for a long time, especially when this is unpleasant or not necessary
- Protectionism - a system in which a country helps its own industries by putting taxes on foreign goods
- Jeopardise - to risk damaging or destroying something important
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