English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Assembly bypolls: Blunt pointers"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : " Tensions in Korean peninsula: Cool minds"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Assembly bypolls: Blunt pointers"
- Bypoll - an election held in a single political constituency to fill a vacancy arising during a government's term of office
- Blunt - saying what you think without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings
- Pointer - something that shows you an existing situation
- Popular - used about something that many people want or like to have
- Firm - strong
- Trend-setter - someone or something that starts a new fashion / trend
- Constituency - one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament or legislature
- Inevitably - certain to happen and unable to be avoided or prevented
- Interpret - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Sitting pretty - in a good situation
- Sweeping - a sweeping win or victory is an easy or complete win
- Victory - an occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc. or the fact that you have won
- Larger-than-life - if someone is larger than life, that person attracts a lot of attention because they are more exciting or interesting than most people
- Pit someone / something against someone / something - to make someone compete or fight against someone or something else
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Shocker - something that is likely to offend, especially something new or recently announced
- Clout - power and influence over other people or events
- Losing out - to not have an advantage that other people have
- Gratifying - pleasing and satisfying
- Ahead - having more points, votes, etc. than someone else in a competition, election, etc
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- At the top of the heap - in the highest position in a society or organization
- Draw comfort - if you draw comfort from something good in a bad situation, it makes you feel less sad or worried
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Breathing space - a period of rest in order to increase strength or give you more time to think about what to do next
- Retaining - to keep or continue to have something
- Written off - to decide that a particular person or thing will not be useful, important, or successful
- Indeed - used to add some extra information that develops or supports something you have just said
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : " Tensions in Korean peninsula: Cool minds"
- Peninsula - a long piece of land that is mostly surrounded by water, but is joined at one end to a larger area of land
- Escalate - to become more serious
- Extreme - very large in amount or degree / great
- Wind down - to end, or to finish something gradually
- Confrontation - a fight or argument
- Heightened - increased
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Naval - belonging to a country's navy, or relating to military ships
- Merely - just; only
- Cautionary - warning someone that they should be careful
- Armada - a large group of war ships
- Ominously - making you think that something bad will happen
- Threaten - to tell someone that you will kill or hurt them or cause problems if they do not do what you want
- Retaliation - the act of doing something harmful or unpleasant to someone because they have done something harmful or unpleasant to you
- So-called - used to show that you think a word that is used to describe someone or something is not suitable or not correct
- Altitude - height above sea level
- Entangling - to involve someone in a difficult or complicated situation that is hard to escape from
- Emphasised - to show that something is very important or worth giving attention to
- Apprehensive - feeling worried about something that you are going to do or that is going to happen
- Inevitably - used for saying that something is certain to happen
- Snooping - to look around a place secretly, in order to discover things or find out information about someone or something
- Boycott - to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval
- Unilateral - done or decided by one country, group, or person, often without considering what other countries etc think or want
- Echo - to express the ideas or feelings that someone else has expressed
- Leverage - power to influence people and get the results you want
- Conflict - an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles
- Consternation - a feeling of worry, shock, or confusion
- Legitimacy - the fact that something is fair and reasonable
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Isolationism - the political principle or practice of showing interest only in your own country and not being involved in international activities
- Conventional - traditional and ordinary
- For instance - for example
- Eschew - to avoid something intentionally, or to give something up
- Rhetoric - speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
- Manipulator - a person who controls people to their own advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly
- Emerging - starting to exist
- Nuanced - a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound, etc
- Volatile - likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly or suddenly become violent or angry
- Spectacular - especially great
- Roll-back - an occasion when the influence of particular laws, rules, etc. is reduced
- Sustained - continuing for a long time
- Weigh in - to be officially weighed before competing in a sport, especially boxing or horse racing
- Aggressively - behaving in an angry and violent way
- Staring down - a confrontation between two parties in which neither side is prepared to back down
- Adversaries - enemies
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