English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 30th April 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Building holistic India-Sri Lanka ties"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Mr. Trump’s tax cut"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Building holistic India-Sri Lanka ties"
- Holistic - dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part
- Engage - to attract and keep someone’s interest or attention
- Transactional - relating to buying and selling
- Regime - a government that controls a country
- Flagging off - to inaugurate / induct something
- A host of - a large number of something
- Memorandum of Understanding - a document that records the details of an agreement between two companies or organizations, which has not yet been legally approved
- Set the stage for something - to create the conditions in which something is likely to happen
- Collaboration - the process of working with someone to produce something
- Sphere - a particular area of interest, activity, work etc
- Infrastructure - the set of systems within a place or organization that affect how well it operates, for example the telephone and transport systems in a country
- Strongman - a political leader who uses force or threats to keep power
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Prominent - important and well known
- Bilateral - a bilateral agreement or activity is one that involves two groups or countries
- Negotiation - the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them
- Preoccupied - thinking about something so much or spending so much time doing something that you do not notice other things or cannot think about other things
- Channelling - to use your energy, ability, feelings, or ideas for a particular purpose
- Countering - to take action in order to oppose or stop something or reduce its negative effects
- Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
- Era - a period of time that has a particular quality or character
- Strategically - in a way that relates to the achievement of long-term or overall aims and interests
- Enhanced - improved
- Crucial - something that is crucial is extremely important because it has a major effect on the result of something
- Neighbouring - near each other
- Bypass - to ignore a rule or official authority
- Robust - firm and determined
- Civil war - a war fought between different groups of people within the same country
- Protesting - to disagree strongly with something, often by making a formal statement or taking action in public
- Voicing - to express your opinions or feelings about something, especially negative feelings
- Rival - a person, team, or business that competes with another
- Inching ahead - to move very slowly or in a lot of short stages
- Devolving - to take power or responsibility from a central authority or government and give it to smaller and more local regions
- Negotiator - vsomeone who tries to help two groups who disagree to reach an agreement with each other
- Holistic - thinking about the whole of something, and not just dealing with particular aspects
- Transcend - to go further, rise above, or be more important or better than something, especially a limit
- Livelihood - something such as your work that provides the money that you need to live
- Battered - damaged
- Fishery - an area of the sea where fish can be caught to be sold
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Long-standing - having existed for a long time
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Incursion - a situation in which someone or something enters an area where they do not belong
- Defunct - not existing or working any more
- Autonomy - the power to make your own decisions
- Likely - if something is likely, it will probably happen or is expected
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Mr. Trump’s tax cut"
- Boost - to help something to increase, improve, or become more successful
- Brief - using only a few words
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Rejuvenate - to make something such as an organization, system, or place good or effective again
- Sluggish - not performing or reacting as well as usual
- Dub - to give someone or something a particular name or description, often a humorous one
- Couple something with something - to consider one thing along with or in addition to something else
- Slump - to be suddenly reduced to a much lower level
- Productivity - the rate at which goods are produced, especially in relation to the time, money, and workers needed to produce them
- Held back - to stop something from progressing or developing as it should
- Eventual - happening or existing at the end of a process or period of time
- Extent - the size and importance of a problem or situation
- Trickle down - to have an effect gradually or after a long time
- Steep - sudden and very big
- Significant - very large or noticeable
- Scrapping - to decide not to continue with something such as a plan or an event
- Notably - especially: used for introducing a good example of something
- Impose - to introduce something such as a new law or new system, and force people to accept it
- Protectionist - relating to a system in which a country helps its own industries by putting taxes on foreign goods
- Shelved - to not take action on something until a later time
- Tariffs - a tax that a government charges on goods that enter or leave their country
- Pile - a large amount of something
- Repatriate - to send money that you earn in a foreign country back to your own country
- Inflow - an amount of something such as money or goods that comes into a place
- Incentivise - to give someone a reason for wanting to work hard
- Shareholder - someone who owns shares in a company
- Buyback - an arrangement in which someone agrees to buy back shares or goods that they previously sold to someone
- Walk back - to take back a comment or reverse a decision
- Adopt - to decide to start using a particular idea, plan, or method
- Deficit - the difference between the amount of money or goods that a country or business has and the amount that it has spent or that it owes
- Neutral - a state of no activity or development
- Compensate - to change or remove the bad result of something
- On the cards - very likely to happen
- Bullish - expecting a successful future
- Stance - a way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly stated opinion
- Unlikely - not probable or likely to happen
- Significant - important or noticeable
- Deficit - the total amount by which money spent is more than money received
- Hawk - to sell goods informally in public places
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