English Vocabulary from
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Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Power of a symbol: EC had to freeze AIADMK’s ‘Two Leaves’"
- Freeze - an act of holding something
- Rival - a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity
- In the face of - in a situation where you have to deal with something unpleasant or difficult
- Faction - a group within a larger group, especially one with slightly different ideas from the main group
- Denying - to not allow someone to have or do something
- Majority - the larger number or part of something
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Interim - temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists:
- By-election - an election that happens at a different time from a main election
- Constituency - one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament or legislature
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Maintaining - to express strongly your belief that something is true
- Formalise - to make something official or decide to arrange it according to a fixed structure
- Veracity - the quality of being true, honest, or accurate
- Unfair - not treating people in an equal way, or not morally right
- Ideally - in the best possible way
- Respective - relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned
- Critical - of the greatest importance to the way things might happen
- Legitimise - to make something legal or acceptable
- Raised the stakes - to make a situation more urgent or more difficult to ignore
- Fielding - to use a person or group of people as your team, representatives
- Nephew - a son of your sister or brother, or a son of the sister or brother of your husband or wife
- Nominated - to officially suggest someone for an election, job, position, or honour
- Deputy - a person who is given the power to do something instead of another person, or the person whose rank is immediately below that of the leader of an organization
- Strategy - a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport, or the skill of planning for such situations
- Legitimacy - the quality of being legal
- Prepare the ground - if you prepare the ground for an activity or a situation, you do something that will help it to happen
- Setback - something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
- Unseemly - unseemly behaviour is embarrassing or upsets people because it is not suitable in a particular situation
- Thwart - to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
- Survival - the fact of a person, organization, etc. continuing to live or exist
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Arc to West Asia: China's signal for deepening ties with the region"
- Heavyweight - a person or thing that is important or serious and that other people notice
- Diplomatic - acting in a way that does not cause offence
- Consecutive - consecutive events, numbers, etc. follow one after another without an interruption
- Appetite - the feeling of wanting or needing something
- Boost - to improve or increase something
- Aerospace - producing or operating aircraft or spacecraft
- Vowed - to make a determined decision or promise to do something
- Crises - plural of crisis (urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation)
- Hostility - an occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something
- Ally - a country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war
- Sanction - an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law
- Halt - to (cause to) stop moving or doing something or happening
- Massive - very large in size, amount, or number
- Significance - importance
- Unveil - if you unveil something new, you show it or make it known for the first time
- Revival - the process of becoming more active or popular again
- Fortify - to make something stronger, especially in order to protect it
- Sphere - a subject or area of knowledge, work, etc
- Civil war - a war fought by different groups of people living in the same country
- Consistently - in a way that does not vary
- Broker - to arrange something such as a deal, agreement, etc. between two or more groups or countries
- Coexistence - the fact of living or existing together at the same time or in the same place
- Urged - to strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do a particular thing
- Reluctance - not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
- Proactive - taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens
- Sectarian - (a person) strongly supporting a particular religious group and not willing to accept other beliefs
- Balancing act - a situation in which a person tries to give care and attention to two or more activities at the same time
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