English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 5th March 2017 (Sunday)
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Saving the Ghats"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Elusive reconciliation"
- Determine - to discover the facts or truth about something
- Ecologically - relating to the environment and the way that plants, animals, and humans live together and affect each other
- Sensitive - easily influenced, changed, or damaged
- Hesitation - a pause before doing something, or a feeling that you should not do it
- Totality - the whole of something
- Fragile - easily damaged, broken, or harmed
- Mountainous - very big
- Unsustainable - causing damage to the environment by using more of something than can be replaced naturally
- Exploitation - the act of using someone unfairly for your own advantage
- Sustainable - causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time
- Inhabit - to live in a place
- Landscape - a large area of countryside, especially in relation to its appearance
- Lost sight of - to not consider something, esp. because you have forgotten about it
- Unscientifically - not considered, examined, or tested using methods that scientists think are necessary
- Conservation - the protection of plants and animals, natural areas etc
- Consensus - a generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people
- Baseline - an imaginary line used as a starting point for making comparisons
- For instance - for example
- Irreplaceable - valuable or rare and impossible to replace if used, lost, or destroyed
- Mediating - to influence or cause a process or event
- Monsoon - the season of heavy rain during the summer in hot Asian countries
- Biodiversity - the number and types of plants and animals that exist in a particular area or in the world generally, or the problem of protecting this
- Endemic - very common, or strongly established in a place or situation
- Vegetation - plants in general, or plants that are found in a particular area
- Hotspot - a popular and exciting place
- Emphasised - to show that something is very important or worth giving attention to
- Resistance - a force that acts to stop the progress of something or make it slower
- Mutually - by, to, or for each of two or more people equally
- Demarcate - to decide the limits of something, especially the borders of an area
- Sanctuaries - a place where birds or animals can live and be protected, especially from being hunted or dangerous conditions
- Corollary - something that results from something else
- Exploit - to use someone or something unfairly for your own advantage
- Deforestation - the cutting down of trees in a large area, or the destruction of forests by people
- Consequence - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient
- Rampant - (of something bad) getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way
- Mining - the process of getting coal or metal from under the ground
- Assessment - the process of making a judgment or forming an opinion, after considering something or someone carefully
- Peculiar - belonging to, relating to, or found in only particular people or things
- Imbuing - to fill someone or something with a particular quality or emotion
- Insight - the ability to notice and understand a lot about people or situations
- Consultative - a consultative group or document gives advice about something
- Called for something - to make something necessary or suitable
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Elusive reconciliation"
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
- Reconciliation - a new and friendly relationship with someone who you argued with or fought with
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Wake-up call - if something that happens is a wake-up call, it should make you realize that you need to take action to change a situation
- Concern - a worried or nervous feeling about something
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Threaten - to be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone
- Lasting - continuing to exist for a long time or for ever
- Excessive - too much
- Arbitrary - using unlimited personal power without considering other people's wishes
- Brutal - cruel, violent, and completely without feelings
- Civil war - a war fought by different groups of people living in the same country
- Isolation - to put a person, country, or organization in a situation where they are seen as being separate
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Dominant - more important, strong, or noticeable
- Undeniably - true, definite and based on facts
- Regime - a particular government or a system or method of government
- Constitutional - allowed by the constitution of a country or organization
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Hybrid - something that is a mixture of two very different things
- Domestic - relating to the country being talked about
- Occupied - an occupied place is being controlled by an army or group of people that has moved into it
- Tangible - real and not imaginary
- Displace - to force something or someone out of its usual or original position
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Wary - not completely trusting or certain about something or someone
- Leeway - freedom to act within particular limits
- Revive - to come or bring something back to life, health, existence, or use
- Alienating - to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
- Allies - people who help and support you
- Eroding - slowly reducing or destroying something
- Victim - someone who has been harmed, injured, or killed as the result of a crime
- Seize the moment - to make use of an opportunity
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