English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "HIV/AIDS Bill: Legally enabling"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "HIV/AIDS Bill: Legally enabling"
- Enabling - making something possible or easier
- Solid - strong
- Empowerment - authority or power given to someone to do something
- Anti-retroviral - antiretroviral drugs are used to treat certain types of virus, especially HIV (=the virus that causes AIDS)
- Opportunistic - an opportunistic disease or infection is one that attacks people who are already ill and who have a very weak immune system
- There's no denying - it is true
- Understandably - as is reasonable or expected
- Enjoin - to strongly advise or order someone to do something
- Flaw - a fault, mistake, or weakness, especially one that happens while something is being planned or made
- Contracted - to become infected with a disease
- Discrimination - treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people
- Ombudsman - someone whose job is to deal with complaints that people make about an organization or particular type of business
- Violation - an action that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc
- Mandate - to give official permission for something to happen
- Scrutinise - to examine something very carefully in order to discover information
- On the decline - decreasing
- Confined to somewhere - to exist only in a particular area
- Sustainable development - the development of a country or region that does not use more natural resources than can be replaced and so does not harm the environment
- Epidemic - a situation in which a disease spreads very quickly and infects many people
- Scaling up - to increase
- Intervention - a situation in which someone becomes involved in a particular issue, problem etc in order to influence what happens
- Draw up - to prepare and write something such as a document or plan
- Evidently - easily seen or understood
- Compliance - to act according to an order, set of rules, or request
- Exert - to use something such as authority, power, influence, etc. in order to make something happen
- Obligation - something that you must do
- Frivolous - lacking any real purpose or importance
- Generic drug - a generic drug or other product does not have a trademark and is sold without a company’s name on it
- Crucial - extremely important or necessary
- On a firm footing - the basic conditions in which something operates or develops
- Folly - a way of thinking or behaving that is stupid and careless, and likely to have bad results
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Democracy - a system of government in which people vote in elections to choose the people who will govern them
- Presidential republic - a country that is ruled by a president or other leader that people vote for, rather than by a king or queen
- Constitutional - relating to the constitution of a country or organization
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Gave the nod - agreed
- Sweeping - affecting many things or people; large
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Irregularity - the quality of not being regular in shape or form, or an example of this
- Incumbent - officially having the named position
- Bridge the rift - to reduce the differences that separate two things or groups
- Remarkable - unusual in a way that surprises or impresses you
- Tryst - a secret meeting
- Nevertheless - despite what has just been said or referred to
- Elsewhere - at, in, from, or to another place or other places; anywhere or somewhere else
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed in the past
- Accrue - to increase in number or amount over a period of time
- Likely - probably going to happen, or probably true
- Outcome - result
- Abolition - the official end to a law, system, practice etc
- Affiliation - connection with an organization, especially a political or religious one
- Presage - to be a sign that something is going to happen, especially something bad
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- Purge - to remove people suddenly or violently from an organization, group etc
- Accuse - to say that someone has done something wrong or committed a crime
- Preacher - someone whose job is to give religious speeches or to lead religious ceremonies in some Christian churches
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Coup - an occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force
- Exaggerate - to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is
- Not to mention - used for adding a comment that emphasizes the main idea of what you have already said
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Spats - short arguments
- Harsh - unkind / unfair
- Myriad - a very large number of something
- Stemming from something - to be caused by something
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Enhance - to improve something, or to make it more attractive or more valuable
- Reconciling - to find a way in which two situations or beliefs that are opposed to each other can agree and exist together
- Pluralist - a person who believes that the existence of different types of people, beliefs, and opinions within a society is a good thing
- Liberalism - a belief in liberal (believing in social or political change if most people want it) ideas and principles, especially in political and social matters
- Populist - representing or relating to the ideas and opinions of ordinary people
- Nationalism - the belief that your nation is better than other nations
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