English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Cloak of invisibility"
- Cloak - something that covers or hides something else
- Regulation - an official rule or the act of controlling something
- Setback - something that happens that delays or prevents a process from developing
- Transparency - the quality of being done in an open way without secrets
- Signed off - to officially approve of something or to officially agree that something has been completed in a satisfactory way by signing your name
- Passage - the official approval of something, especially a new law
- Include - to contain something as a part of something else, or to make something part of something else
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- For instance - for example
- Devote - to use a particular amount of time or space for dealing with something
- Propose - to offer or suggest a possible plan or action for other people to consider
- Measure - a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with a situation
- Turn the clock back - if you try to turn the clock back, you want things to be the way they were in the past
- Disclosure - the act of making something known or the fact that is made known
- Contribute - to give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people
- Ceiling - an upper limit, usually relating to money
- Paving the way - if something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
- Deploy - to use something or someone, especially in an effective way
- Reveal - to make known or show something that is surprising or that was previously secret
- Extent - to a particular degree or stage
- For the sake of someone / something - in order to help or bring advantage to someone / something
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Doing away with something - to get rid of something or stop using something
- Breaching - an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship
- Cap - a limit on the amount of money that can be charged or spent in connection with a particular activity
- Crony - a friend or supporter, especially of someone powerful
- Capitalism - an economic system in which property, businesses, and industry are owned by individual people and not by the government
- Exert - to use something such as authority, power, influence, etc. in order to make something happen
- Restructuring - to organize a company, business, or system in a new way to make it operate more effectively
- Publicly listed company - a company whose shares are traded on the stock market
- Subsidiary - used to refer to something less important than something else with which it is connected
- Pretence - a way of behaving that does not honestly express your real feelings, thoughts, or intentions
- Disclose - to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden
- Obligation - something that you must do
- Abandonment - to leave something quickly or suddenly
- Requisite - necessary or needed for a particular purpose
- In tandem - at the same time
- Anonymity - the situation in which someone's name is not given or known
- Dissipate - to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste
- Synonymous - if you say that one thing is synonymous with another, you mean that the two things are so closely connected in most people's minds that one suggests the other
- Norm - an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people agree with
- Persistence - a situation in which something unpleasant continues to exist
- Accountability - a situation in which someone is responsible for things that happen and can give a satisfactory reason for them
- Rings hollow - if something someone says rings hollow, it does not sound true or sincere
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Terror in London: the challenges posed by 'lone wolves'"
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Lone wolves - peole who like to do things on their own without other people
- Assailant - a person who attacks another person
- Threat - a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Severe - a severe problem is very serious and worrying
- Deemed - to consider or judge something in a particular way
- Likely - if something is likely, it will probably happen or is expected
- Conventional - of the usual, traditional type, instead of being new and different
- Strike - attack
- Assailant - a person who attacks another person
- Lethal - very dangerous and able to kill you
- Mowing down - to kill people, usually in large numbers, by shooting them or driving a vehicle into them
- Pedestrian - a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go
- Compound - an area surrounded by fences or walls that contains a group of buildings
- Counter - to react to something with an opposing opinion or action, or to defend yourself against something
- Reportedly - according to what many people say
- Thwart - to stop something from happening or someone from doing something
- Unlike - different from
- Amass - to get a large amount of something
- Radicalise - to make someone become more radical (= extreme) in their political or religious beliefs
- Tactic - a planned way of doing something
- Radar - a system that uses radio waves to find the position of objects that cannot be seen
- Caliphate - an Islamic state, especially one ruled by a single religious and political leader
- Narrative - a particular way of explaining or understanding events
- Crusaders - someone who makes a determined effort to achieve or stop something because of their strong beliefs
- Ally - someone who helps and supports someone else
- Propaganda - information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
- Commendable - deserving praise
- Barring - unless the thing mentioned happens or exists
- Fringe - the outer or less important part of an area, group, or activity
- Handful - a very small number of people or things
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