English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "What’s cricket ?: On BCCI's approach to cricket"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "In four doses: On malaria vaccines"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "What’s cricket ?: On BCCI's approach to cricket"
- Approach - a particular way of thinking about or dealing with something
- Revenue - income from business activities
- Chastening - to make someone feel ashamed or less confident
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Punctured the bubble - to destroy someone's illusion
- Entitlement - the feeling that you have the right to do or have what you want without having to work for it or deserve it
- Come to terms with someone - to make an agreement, or to end an argument with someone
- Diktat - an official rule that people are forced to obey
- Emanated - to come from a particular place
- Overwhelmingly - used for emphasizing the amount or strength of something
- Ratification - the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid
- Negate - to make something have no effect
- Ambitious - determined to be successful, rich, famous etc
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Opt - to make a choice
- Contingent - a group of people representing a place, organization etc at a meeting or event
- Moot - to suggest something as a subject for discussion
- Reluctantly - not willing to do something
- Play second fiddle - to be less important or in a weaker position than someone else
- Ironic - expressing the opposite of what you really think
- Monopoly - (an organization or group that has) complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have no share
- Bullying - behaviour that frightens or hurts someone smaller or weaker
- Ransom - the amount of money that someone wants to be paid before they will let a person who they are keeping prisoner go free
- Theorist - someone who develops or studies theories or ideas about a particular subject
- Recast - to change the way that someone or something is or appears to be
- There’s no denying - used for saying that something is clearly true
- Diaspora - the movement of a large group of people from their home country to other countries in the world
- Inordinately - much more than usual or expected
- Dissenting - to express strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what most people think
- Regret - to feel sorry or sad that something has happened
- obsessed - too interested in or worried about something
- Chest - a large box
- Enfeeble - to make someone or something very weak
- Phenomenal - extremely successful or special, especially in a surprising way
- Convulsed - to (cause to) shake violently with sudden uncontrolled movements
- Survival - the fact or state of continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions
- Powerhouse - something such as a country or organization that has a lot of power or influence
- Leverage - the power to make someone do what you want
- Call the shots - to be in a position of control or authority
- Clout - the authority to make decisions, or the power to influence events
- Nurturing - to help someone or something to develop
- Scaled-down - reduced
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Have a hard think - to seriously consider something for some time
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "In four doses: On malaria vaccines"
- Vaccine - a substance put into the body, usually by injection, in order to provide protection against a disease
- Pilot test - to test how good something is before introducing it
- Put through - to test someone or something in order to make sure everything is working correctly
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Large-scale - involving a large number of people or things, or happening over a large area
- Milestone - an event or achievement that marks an important stage in a process
- On account of - because of someone or something
- Scenario - a situation that could possibly happen
- Yield - to produce something useful
- Substantial - large in amount or degree
- Prevalent - very common in a particular place or among a particular group
- Moderate - neither very great nor very small in amount, size, strength, or degree
- Rapid - happening, moving, or acting quickly
- Diagnostic - used for finding out what physical or mental problem someone has
- Precisely - exactly / clearly
- Administer - to give someone a drug or medical treatment
- Drop-out - to leave something
- Warrant - to make a particular activity necessary
- Immunisation - the process of protecting a person or animal from an infectious disease by putting a substance into the body that makes it produce antibodies (= proteins in the blood that fight disease)
- Severe - serious and worrying
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Evaluating - to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something
- Likelihood - the chance that something might happen
- Replicating - to do or make something again in the same way as before
- Mortality - the number of deaths within a particular area, group etc
- Ascertain - to find out something
- Meningitis - a serious illness that affects the outer part of the brain
- Cerebral - relating to or affecting your brain
- Optimum - best or most suitable within a range of possibilities
- Intervention - the act or fact of becoming involved intentionally in a difficult situation
- Conjunction - a combination of two or more things
- Incidence - the number of cases of an illness or a medical condition in a particular place, group, or situation
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