English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Abolishing FIPB: Red tape herring ?"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The chill in Brussels"
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Abolishing FIPB: Red tape herring ?"
- Abolishing - to officially get rid of a law, system, practice etc
- Red tape - documents, rules, or processes that cause delays
- Red herring - something that is not relevant that makes you confused or takes your attention away from what you should be concentrating on
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Investment - money used in a way that may earn you more money, for example money used for buying property or shares in a company
- Mechanism - a method or process for getting something done within a system or organization
- Proposal - a plan or suggestion, especially a formal one that a group has to consider
- Abroad - in or to a foreign country
- Formulate - to develop a plan, system, or proposal carefully, thinking about all of its details
- Empower - to give a person or organization the legal authority to do something
- Shrink - to become smaller in amount, value, or range
- Investor - a person or organization that invests money
- Gesture - a movement that communicates a feeling or instruction
- Efficacy - effectiveness in producing the result that you intended
- Determined - not willing to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
- Sectoral - relating to a sector of the economy
- Regulator - a person or organization whose job is to be certain that companies, systems etc act fairly and follow rules
- Ultimate - happening at the end of a process or activity
- Discretionary - based on someone’s judgment of a particular situation rather than on a set of rules
- Bureaucrat - someone who is employed to help run an office or government department
- Cautious - careful to avoid problems or danger
- Carries out - to do something that you have said you will do or that you have been told to do
- Wrath - very great anger
- Auditor - someone whose job is to officially examine the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
- Bona fide - a bona fide person or thing is really what they seem to be or what they claim to be
- In the line of duty - something that happens to you in the line of duty happens when you are doing your job
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Inflow - an amount of something such as money or goods that comes into a place
- Surge - to increase a lot very quickly
- Lull - a situation in which there is not enough success or activity
- Easing - the action or process of making something less severe or difficult
- Threshold - a limit at which an arrangement changes
- Cumbersome - not simple, fast, or effective enough and difficult or annoying to use
- Enthusiastic - very interested in something or excited by it
- For instance - for example
- Venture - a new business or activity
- Entity - a separate unit that is complete and has its own character
- Onerous - something that is onerous is something that you dislike or worry about because it is very difficult to deal with
- Inhibited - too embarrassed or not confident enough to do something
- Despite - used for saying that something happens even though something else might have prevented it
- Archaic - old and no longer used
- Acquisition - the process of buying something or obtaining it in some other way
- Looking ahead - to think about what is likely to happen, or to plan what you are going to do in the future
- Formidable - very impressive in size, power, or skill and therefore deserving respect and often difficult to deal with
- Obstacle - a difficulty or problem that prevents you from achieving something
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "The chill in Brussels"
- Chill - to become less friendly
- Drift away - to begin to be less of a friend and more like a stranger
- Ally - a country that makes an agreement with another country that they will work together to help each other, especially in a war
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Indulge - to allow someone to do what they want or enjoy
- Nostalgia - thoughts about happy times in your past, often mixed with the wish to be back in the past
- Painstakingly - very carefully and thoroughly
- Nurture - to help someone or something to develop
- Post-War - happening or existing in the period of time immediately after a war, especially the Second World War
- Pronounce - to formally state an official opinion or decision
- Mutual - felt or done in the same way by each of two or more people
- Solidarity - the support that people in a group give each other because they have the same opinions or aims
- Uncertain - not clearly known or understood
- Awkward - difficult to deal with and embarrassing
- Treaty - an official written agreement between two or more countries
- Trans - between
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Reportedly - used for showing that you are not certain that something you are reporting is true
- Dismay - the feeling of being very worried, disappointed, or sad about something surprising or shocking that has happened
- Disbelief - the feeling of not believing someone or something, especially something shocking or unexpected
- Chancellor - the leader of the government in some countries, for example Germany and Austria
- Spelt out - to say or explain something very clearly because someone has not understood something
- Candid - honest and direct, even when the truth is not pleasant
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Knit together - to join together or work together as one group or unit, or to make people or things do this
- Overarching - affecting or including everything, and therefore very important
- Aftermath - the effects and results of something bad or important
- Backdrop - everything that you can see behind the main thing you are looking at
- Explicitly - in an extremely clear way
- Endorse - to express support for someone or something, especially in public
- Reduced to brass tacks - to start talking about the most important or basic facts of a situation
- Apportioning - to say who should be blamed for something
- Compliance - the practice of obeying a law, rule, or request
- Stipulation - to say exactly how something must be or must be done:
- Shouldering - to deal with or accept something difficult
- Voicing - to express your opinions or feelings about something, especially negative feelings
- Scepticism - doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right
- Chronic - very bad
- Underpayment - the act of paying less than is necessary or less than the value of something
- Proceedings - the actions taken, usually in court, to settle a legal matter
- Diplomatic - relating to the profession or skill of preserving or creating friendly relationships between countries
- Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
- Understandably - if you say that someone is understandably feeling a particular emotion, you mean that most people would feel the same way in that situation
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Revival - the process of becoming active, successful, or popular again
- Tone down - to make something less severe, shocking, or offensive
- Rhetoric - a style of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people
- Contentious - causing disagreement between people or groups
- Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
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