English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Welcome assurance: On the executive sharing judiciary's burden"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Climbdown in Caracas: On Venezuela's top court reversing a legislature order"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Welcome assurance: On the executive sharing judiciary's burden"
- Assurance - a promise
- Backlog - a large number of things that you should have done before and must do now
- Radically - completely or in a way that is very noticeable
- Executive - someone in a high position
- Judiciary - the part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system, including all the judges in the country's courts
- Overemphasised - to give something too much importance or attention
- Impasse - a situation in which progress is impossible
- Burden - a serious or difficult responsibility that you have to deal with
- Fraternity - a group of people who have the same job or interest
- Underscored - to emphasize something, or to show that it is important
- Anguish - extreme unhappiness caused by physical or mental suffering
- Successive - happening one after the other without any break
- With regard to - in connection with
- Alarming - a warning of danger
- Docket - a list of the cases that are waiting to be considered in a court of law
- Chronic - very bad
- Superior - higher in rank or social position than others
- Subordinate - having a lower or less important position
- A grinding halt - a situation in which something gradually stops operating completely
- Reluctance - not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
- Fill up - to make something full, or to become full
- Spell out - to explain something in a very clear way with details
- Expedite - to make something happen more quickly
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Incontestable - impossible to question because of being obviously true
- Liquidate - to cause a business to close, so that its assets can be sold to pay its debts
- Arrears - money that is owed and should already have been paid
- Magnitude - the large size or importance of something
- Collegium - an organization for people who have similar interests or who do similar work
- Prolong - to make something last a longer time
- Stand-off - a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible
- Tidings - news
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Climbdown in Caracas: On Venezuela's top court reversing a legislature order"
- Climbdown - an occasion when you change your opinion or admit that you were wrong
- Legislature - the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws
- Nullifying - to make a legal agreement or decision have no legal force
- Respite - a pause or rest from something difficult or unpleasant
- Relentless - something bad that is relentless never seems to stop or improve
- Initiated - to cause something to begin
- Strip - to remove, pull, or tear the covering or outer layer from something
- Contempt - a strong feeling of disliking and having no respect for someone or something
- Pursuit - the process of trying to achieve something
- Severe - very serious and worrying
- Erosion - the gradual reduction or destruction of something important
- Takeover - an act of taking control of a country or organization by an army, group etc, especially by force
- Confrontation - a situation in which people or groups are arguing angrily or are fighting
- Loyalist - someone who supports their government, especially during a revolution
- Dissent - strong disagreement, especially with what people in authority think or with what the majority of people think
- Rescind - to state officially that something such as a law or an agreement has ended and no longer has legal authority
- Rupture - an end to a friendly relationship or to a peaceful situation
- Subsequent - happening or coming after something else
- Far from - used for saying that the real situation is the opposite of what you mention
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Empower - to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something
- Emergency - an unexpected situation involving danger in which immediate action is necessary
- Enforced - happening because of a situation that you cannot control or prevent
- Expenditure - money spent by a government, organization, or person
- Meanwhile - until something expected happens, or while something else is happening
- Essential - completely necessary
- Commodity - something that is useful or necessary
- Grave - so serious that you feel worried
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Plummeting - to fall very quickly and suddenly
- Inflation - an economic process in which prices increase so that money becomes less valuable
- Repression - the use of force or violence to control people
- Arbitrary - not based on any particular plan, or not done for any particular reason
- Notorious - famous for something bad
- Province - one of many areas into which some countries are divided
- Condemnation - a public statement in which someone criticizes someone or something severely
- Exhausted - extremely tired and without enough energy to do anything else
- Manoeuvre - an action or movement that you need care or skill to do
- Exploit - to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself
- Referendum - an occasion when everyone in a country can vote to make a decision about one particular subject
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
- Engulfing - to cover or surround something in a way that harms or destroys it
- Hardly - used for saying that something is almost not true or almost does not happen at all
- Autocrat - someone who has complete power in a country or organization
- Nullify - to make something lose its legal effect
- Flagrant - done in an obvious way that shows you do not care if you break rules or offend people
- Regime - a system or form of government
- To the tune of - used for emphasizing how large an amount is
- Embarrassment - a feeling of being nervous or ashamed
- Juncture - a stage in a process or activity
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