English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "In Uttarakhand, a mandate for renewal"
- Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
- Renewal - the process of starting something again after a pause
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Edge - an advantage that makes someone or something more successful than other people or things
- Turmoil - a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder
- Intervention - the act or fact of becoming involved intentionally in a difficult situation
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Tribulation - a problem or difficulty
- Defend - to protect someone or something against attack or criticism; to speak in favour of someone or something
- Allegation - a statement, made without giving proof, that someone has done something wrong or illegal
- Graft - dishonest or illegal activities in politics or business that involve giving people money or advantages in exchange for their help or support
- Constituency - vone of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament or legislature
- Decisive - a decisive victory or defeat is one in which the winner does much better than the loser
- Verdict - an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given
- Reap - to get something as a result of something that you do
- Incumbency - the fact of having an official position
- Migration - movement from one region to another and often back again
- Plain - a large area of flat land
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Infrastructure - the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively
- Persisting - continues to exist
- Pitch - the things that you say to convince someone to support you
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Conversely - used for introducing a sentence, or part of a sentence, which says something that is the opposite of the other part
- Lament - to express sadness and feeling sorry about something
- Adequate - enough or satisfactory for a particular purpose
- Apart from - except for someone or something
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Formidable - causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, or difficult
- Take something into account - to consider or remember something when judging a situation
- Defector - a person who leaves his or her own country or group to join an opposing one
- Empower - to give someone official authority or the freedom to do something
- Loyal - willing to support, work for, or be a friend to someone, even in difficult times
- Overwhelming - very great or very large
- Uphill battle - difficult to do or to achieve
- Bifurcation - the fact that something is divided into two parts or the act of dividing something into two parts
- Devastating - causing a lot of damage or destruction
- Impact - a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person
- Decline - to gradually become less, worse, or lower
- Agrarian - relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming
- Consequent - happening as a result of something
- Concerted effort - concerted effort or attempt is determined and serious
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Pakistan’s headcount: a necessary exercise despite resistance"
- Headcount - the act of counting how many people are present in a place
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Resistance - the act of fighting against something, or refusing to accept something
- Census - an occasion on which government officials count the people who live in a country and record other information about them
- Formulate - to develop all the details of a plan for doing something
- Federal - relating to the central government
- Province - an area that is governed as part of a country
- Delimitation - the process of establishing the limits or boundaries
- Constituency - one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament or legislature
- Demographic - relating to the study of populations and the different groups that make them up
- Ethnic - relating to a particular race of people
- Undergo - to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change
- Massive - very large in size, amount, or number
- Influx - the fact of a large number of people or things arriving at the same time
- Diminish - to reduce or be reduced in size or importance
- Refugee - a person who has escaped from their own country for political, religious, or economic reasons or because of a war
- Provincial - in or from the parts of the country that are not the capital city
- Merely - used to emphasize that you mean exactly what you are saying and nothing more
- Obsolete - no longer used because of being replaced by something newer and more effective
- Composition - the way that something is formed from separate parts or people
- Stable - not changing frequently and not likely to suddenly become worse
- Existential - an existential danger threatens the very existence of something
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Realistic - accepting things as they are in fact and not making decisions based on unlikely hopes for the future
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