English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 19th March 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Wag the dog: On Yogi Adityanath as UP CM"
- Wag the dog - this phrase is used to indicate that attention is purposely being diverted from something of greater importance to something of lesser importance
- Hardline - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Fringe - the outer or less important part of an area, group, or activity
- Tail wags the dog - a situation in which a large group has to do something to satisfy a small group
- Altogether - completely / in total
- Vociferous - someone who is vociferous expresses their opinion loudly and with force
- Firebrand - a person who causes political or social trouble by opposing authority and encouraging others to do so
- Ceded - to allow someone to take something such as power or land away from you
- Faction - a group within a larger group, especially one with slightly different ideas from the main group
- Fiercely - in a frightening, violent, or powerful way
- Autonomous - an autonomous state, region, or organization is independent and has the power to govern itself
- Defiant - proudly refusing to obey authority
- Exploiting - to use someone or something unfairly for your own advantage
- Divisive - used to describe something that causes great and sometimes unfriendly disagreement within a group of people
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Prominent - very well known and important
- Willy nilly - if something happens willy-nilly, it happens even if the people who are involved do not want it to happen
- Discourse - serious spoken or written discussion of a particular subject
- Indeed - really or certainly, often used to emphasize something
- Conversion - a process in which someone changes to a new religion or belief
- Aggressive - behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person
- Baiting - to deliberately try to make someone angry
- Implicated - to show that someone is involved in a crime or partly responsible for something bad that has happened
- Rioting - crimes involving violence or damage to property
- Enforcement - to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted
- Tact - the ability to say or do the right thing without making anyone unhappy or angry
- Triumphalism - an unpleasant show of pleasure and satisfaction because you have won or done better than someone
- Opt - make a choice from a range of possibilities
- Perhaps - used for saying that you are not certain about something, or that something may or may not be true
- Persuasion - the process of making someone agree to do or believe something
- Unlikely - not likely to happen
- Outflanked - to do better than an opponent by winning an advantage over him or her
- Alter ego - a very close friend
- At the helm - officially controlling an organization or company
- Beholden - feeling you have a duty to someone because they have done something for you
- Clout - power and influence over other people or events
- Hardliner - strict or extreme in your beliefs or opinions, and not willing to change them
- Mend your ways - to begin to behave well, having until now behaved badly
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Last gasp tasks: GST bills and rate fitment process"
- Last gasp - the end of something
- Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
- Requisite - necessary for a particular purpose
- Legislative - relating to laws or the making of laws
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Compensation - money that is paid to someone in exchange for something that has been lost or damaged or for some problem
- Ratify - (especially of governments or organizations) to make an agreement official
- Rollout - the act of making something, especially a product or service, available for the first time
- Respective - relating or belonging to each of the separate people or things you have just mentioned
- Draft - something such as a plan, letter, or drawing that may have changes made to it before it is finished
- Buffer - something or someone that helps protect from harm
- Transition - a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which this happens
- Commodity - something that can be bought and sold, especially a basic food product or fuel
- Trickiest - difficult to deal with
- Nuance - a slight difference that may be difficult to notice but is fairly important
- Susceptible - easily influenced or harmed by something
- Lobbying - to try to influence politicians or people in authority on a particular subject
- Excel - to be extremely good at something
- For instance - for example
- Ceiling - an upper limit, usually relating to money
- Aerate - to add a gas to liquid, especially a drink
- Sin goods - the products which are harmful to the society (alcohol and tobacco, candies, drugs, soft drinks, fast foods, coffee, sugar, and gambling etc)
- Friction - disagreement or unfriendliness caused by people having different opinions
- Reform - improvement
- Fortnight - a period of two weeks
- Heckling - criticism and disapproval
- Profiteering - making an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that something must be done
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