English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 18th June 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Contest vs. consensus: on selecting a presidential candidate"
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Helmut Kohl — the unifier"
- Contest - a situation in which two or more people or groups are competing to gain power or an advantage
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Default - the way that something will appear or be done if you make no other choice
- Enlightened - someone who is enlightened has attitudes that are considered modern and reasonable
- Overture - a suggestion or offer that you make to someone
- Exploratory - done in order to learn more about something
- Unfruitful - not producing good results
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Contestation - the act of arguing or disagreeing about something
- Realm - a particular area of knowledge, experience, interest etc
- Imperative - extremely important and urgent
- Dispensation - official permission to do something
- Conducive - creating a situation that helps something to happen
- Diverse - very different from each other
- Eminent - important, respected, and admired
- Widespread - happening or existing in many places, or affecting many people
- Unrest - angry or violent behaviour by people who are protesting against something
- Credible - able to be believed or trusted
- Homogenising - to make conditions, people, or things the same or similar, often so that the result is boring
- Alliance - an arrangement between two or more people, groups, or countries by which they agree to work together to achieve something
- Regime - a system or form of government
- Determined - not willing to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
- Supremacy - a situation in which one person, group, or thing has more power or influence than any other
- Edge - advantage
- Backing - support
- Circumstance - a fact or condition that affects a situation
- Likely - probably going to happen, or probably true
- Partisan - showing strong and usually unfair support for one particular person, group, or idea
- Incumbent - someone who has an official position
- Counsel - to give someone advice about what to do in a particular situation
- Envision - to have something as a plan or an intention
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Helmut Kohl — the unifier"
- Unify - to bring together; combine
- Instrumental - involved in an important way in making something happen
- Cold War - unfriendly relations between countries who are not at war with each other
- Staunch - loyal, and showing strong belief in something or strong support for something
- Chancellor - the leader of the government in some countries, for example Germany and Austria
- Steely - showing a calm and firm attitude
- Consecutive - following one after another in order and with nothing else in between
- Wilderness - a period of time when you are not as successful as you were previously
- Controversy - a disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue that a lot of people have strong feelings about
- Anonymous - used about something that is done, written etc by someone whose name is not known
- Austere - strict and serious in manner
- Prominence - the state of being important or well known
- Emerged - to become known
- Catapult - to suddenly put someone into an important position
- Coalition - a temporary union of different political parties that agree to form a government together
- Reconciliation - a new and friendly relationship with someone who you argued with or fought with
- Concentration camp - a place like a prison where ordinary people are kept during a war and where they have to live in very unpleasant conditions
- Cemetery - an area of ground where dead people are buried
- Pivotal - extremely important and affecting how something develops
- Culminate - to happen or exist as the final result of a process or situation
- Prospect - the possibility that something will happen, especially something good
- Momentous - very important because of having an effect on future events
- Scepticism - doubts that someone has about something that other people think is true or right
- Dominance - a situation in which one person or thing has more influence or power than any other
- Instinct - a natural ability to know what to do in a particular situation
- Apprehension - a feeling of worry or fear that something bad might happen
- Embrace - to completely accept something such as a new belief, idea, or way of life
- Adoption - the decision to use or accept a particular idea, method, law, or attitude
- Counterpart - someone or something that has the same job or purpose as another person or thing, but in a different country, time, situation, or organization
- Concrete - practical
- Forging - to develop a successful relationship, especially in business or politics, with another country, organization, or person
- Reluctant - not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Concomitant - happening at the same time as something else
- Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
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