English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 26th March 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A timely step: State-owned banks should address their NPAs"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Defusing air rage: Airlines should take a tough line against unruly VIP behaviour"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "A timely step: State-owned banks should address their NPAs"
- Timely - happening at the most suitable time
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Strive - to try very hard to do something or to make something happen, especially for a long time or against difficulties
- Unequivocal - clear, definite, and without doubt
- Missive - an official, formal, or long letter
- Forsake - to stop doing or having something
- Infusion - the act of adding one thing to another to make it stronger or better
- Deterioration - to become worse
- Profitability - the degree to which something is profitable, or the state of being profitable
- Substantial - large in size, value, or importance
- Erosion - the gradual reduction or destruction of something important
- Principal - main, or most important
- Administer - to control the operation or arrangement of something
- Fester - to become infected
- Amputation - to cut off a part of the body
- Harness - to control something
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- Infrastructure - the basic systems and services, such as transport and power supplies, that a country or organization uses in order to work effectively
- Revolving-door - a place or situation in which the people stay for a short time only, with the result that people are often arriving and leaving
- Incentive - something that encourages a person to do something
- Accountability - a situation in which people know who is responsible for something and can ask them to explain its state or quality
- Redress - something that you do for someone or money that you give to them as a way of improving a bad situation that you are responsible for
- Burgeoning - developing quickly
- Ultimatum - a statement that orders someone to do something and threatens to punish or attack them if they do not
- Consequence - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient
- MoU - Memorandum Of Understanding (a document that records the details of an agreement between two companies or organizations, which has not yet been legally approved)
- Resolution - an official decision that is made after a group or organization has voted
- Vested - a special reason for wanting things to happen in a particular way, because you will benefit from this
- Simultaneously - happening or being done at exactly the same time
- Regulator - an official who makes certain that the companies who operate a system, work effectively and fairly
- Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
- Empower - having the official authority or freedom to do something
- Haircut - a reduction in an amount of money, such as the price of a share or bond
- Writedown - a reduction in the value of an asset in a company's accounts, when it is calculated to be worth less than previously shown
- Feasible - possible or likely to succeed
- Vigilance - always being careful to notice things, especially possible danger
- Stipulation - to say exactly how something must be or must be done
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Spectre - the possibility of something unpleasant that might happen in the future
- Incentive - something that encourages a person to do something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Defusing air rage: Airlines should take a tough line against unruly VIP behaviour"
- Defusing - to make a difficult or dangerous situation calmer by reducing or removing its cause
- Rage - a very strong feeling of anger
- Unruly - unruly people are difficult to control and often do not obey rules
- Associated - connected
- Menace - something that is likely to cause harm
- Deterrence - the idea that people will decide not to do something if they believe that something unpleasant could happen to them as a result
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual:
- Enforce - to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
- Perpetrator- someone who has committed a crime or a violent or harmful act
- Outrageous - shocking and morally unacceptable
- Conduct - to behave in a particular way
- Crew - a group of people who work together, especially all those who work on and operate a ship, aircraft, etc
- Glean - to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty
- Transpired - to happen
- Consequent - happening as a result of something
- Disruptive - causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual
- Malefactor - a person who does bad or illegal things
- Legislator - a member of a group of people who together have the power to make laws
- Allegedly - if someone allegedly does something, another person says that they have done it, even though this has not been proved
- Assault - to attack someone violently
- Symptomatic - if something bad is symptomatic of something else, it is caused by the other thing and is proof that it exists
- Entitlement - something that you have a right to do or have, or the right to do or have something
- Pervade - to spread through the whole of something and become a very obvious feature of it
- Credence - the belief that something is true
- Brazenly - behaving in a way that is not moral or socially acceptable, and not caring if other people are shocked or offended
- Condone - to accept or allow behaviour that is wrong
- Bizarre - very strange and unusual
- Onus - the responsibility or duty to do something
- Blacklist - to say that particular products should not be bought, especially as part of a political protest
- High-handedness - using power or authority more forcefully than is needed, without thinking about the feelings or wishes of other people
- Tactic - a planned way of doing something
- Align - to give your support publicly to a group, political party, or country
- Provincial - having opinions and ideas that are old-fashioned and simple
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