English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The modern way: mental health law can be used to strengthen primary care"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The modern way: mental health law can be used to strengthen primary care"
- Passage - the process by which a bill is discussed in a parliament and becomes law
- Repealing - to state officially that a law no longer has legal authority and has ended
- Potentially - possibly true in the future, but not true now
- Catch up with - to begin to have an effect on someone / something
- Advance - progress
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Sketchy - not detailed or complete
- Grossly - very, or extremely
- Inadequate - not enough, or not good enough for a particular purpose
- Evident - easy to see, notice, or understand
- Psychiatrist - a doctor who treats people with mental illnesses
- Marginally - by only a very small amount
- Practitioner - someone who works in a particular profession, especially medicine or law
- Massive - very large in amount or degree
- Deficiency - a fault in someone or something that makes them not good enough
- Meagre - smaller or less than you want or need
- Decriminalisation - to change the law so that something that was illegal becomes legal
- Explicit - said or explained in an extremely clear and direct way
- Prohibition - a law or rule that stops people from doing something
- Discrimination - unfair treatment of someone because of their religion, race, or other personal features
- Diagnose - to find out what physical or mental problem someone has by examining them
- Concerted - involving a lot of people or organizations working together in a determined way
- Mild - a mild illness or injury is one that is not serious
- Severe - a severe problem is very serious and worrying
- Anxiety - a worried feeling you have because you think something bad might happen
- Disorder - an illness or medical condition
- Psychoses - a serious mental illness that affects your ability to know what is real and changes your personality and behaviour
- Substance abuse - the practice of drinking too much alcohol or of taking illegal drugs
- Counselling - advice and help that you give someone with their problems, especially as your job
- Step forward - to offer help to someone who needs it
- Sphere - a particular area about which you are talking about
- Ailment - an illness, usually not a serious one
- Seclusion - a situation in which someone stays apart or is kept apart from other people
- Resorted to - to do something extreme or unpleasant in order to solve a problem
- Asylum - a mental hospital
- Electro-convulsive therapy - a medical treatment for serious mental illness in which electricity is passed through your brain
- Weed out - to get rid of unwanted things or people from a group
- Shady - secret and probably dishonest or illegal
- Rehabilitation - to help someone to give up drugs or alcohol, so that they can return to a healthy, independent, and useful life
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Back to square one: Egypt’s restive politics"
- Restive - unwilling to be controlled or be patient
- Repression - the use of force or violence to control people
- Ouster - the removal of someone from an official position
- Dictator - someone who uses force to take and keep power in a country
- Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
- Detention - the state of being kept in a police station or prison and not being allowed to leave
- Associate - someone who is closely connected to another person as a companion, friend, or business partner
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Embezzlement - to secretly take money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for
- Overturned - to say officially that something such as a decision or law is wrong and change it
- Acquitted - to state officially that someone is not guilty of the crime they were accused of
- Conspiring - to secretly plan with someone to do something bad or illegal
- Paving the way - if something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible
- Ironic - being very different from what you would usually expect
- Rule with iron fist - to control a group of people very firmly, having complete power over everything they do
- Toppled - to make someone in authority lose their power
- Contemporary - modern, or relating to the present time
- Lenient - if a person or system is lenient, they punish someone less severely than they could
- Cracking down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- Gauge - to make a judgment about something
- Regime - a government that controls a country, especially in a strict or unfair way
- Existential - relating to existence
- Threat - warning / a situation or an activity that could cause harm or danger
- Instability - a situation that keeps changing, so that you are worried about what might happen
- Chaos - a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess
- Misery - the state of being extremely unhappy or uncomfortable
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Guarantor - someone who makes an official agreement to be responsible for money that someone else owes, or for someone else’s behaviour
- Status quo - the present situation, or the way that things usually are
- Sustainable - able to continue over a period of time
- Brutal - extremely violent
- Curb - to control or limit something that is not wanted
- Back to square one - to be forced to think of a new course of action because your first course of action failed
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