English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "The Hamburg tussle: working around Donald Trump at G20"
- Tussle - a short fight
- Working around someone / something - to deal successfully with a person or problem that might prevent you from achieving your aim
- Gathering - a group of people meeting together
- Catching up - to improve in order to reach the same standard or rate as someone or something
- Patching up - to become friends with someone again after a disagreement
- Unpredictable - changing often, in a way that is impossible to prepare for
- Summit - a meeting or series of meetings between leaders of two or more countries
- Emerging - just beginning to exist or be noticed
- Context - the general situation in which something happens, which helps to explain it
- Automation - a system that uses machines to do work instead of people, or the process of changing to such a system
- Migration - the process of starting to use a different computer system
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Decentralise - to take power from a central government or organization and give it to several smaller and more local ones
- Disperse - to spread, or to make things spread, in different directions over a wide area
- Dynamic - the set of forces that exist in a situation, especially a relationship, and that affect how it changes or develops
- Bilateral - involving two groups or countries
- 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
- Scandal - a situation in which important people behave in a dishonest or immoral way that shocks people
- Amid - if something happens amid particular feelings or events, it happens while people have these feelings or while these events are happening
- Face-off - a disagreement or fight between two people or groups
- Pull together - to combine different things so that they form a single unit
- Communique - an official statement, especially to newspapers, radio, or television
- Recalcitrance - unwillingness to obey orders or to do what should be done
- Interlocutor - someone who you are having a conversation with
- Pivotal - extremely important and affecting how something develops
- Unanimity - complete agreement among all the members of a group
- Consensus - agreement among all the people involved
- Irreversible - impossible to change or bring back a previous condition or situation
- Fossil fuel - a fuel such as coal or oil, made from decayed material from animals or plants that lived many thousands of years ago
- Protectionism - a system in which a country helps its own industries by putting taxes on foreign goods
- Legitimate - fair and reasonable
- Learning curve - the rate at which you learn something
- Rift - a disagreement between two people or groups
- Protest - an occasion when people show that they disagree with something by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs, etc
- Injure - hurt in an accident or attack
- Undercurrent - a feeling that exists and affects how people behave, but is not obvious or stated directly
- Discontent - the unhappy feeling that you have when you are not satisfied with something
- Mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something
- Underlying causes - underlying causes are the real or basic ones, although they are not obvious or directly stated
- Responsive - quick to react in the way that is needed, suitable, or right for a particular situation
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Targeting trawling: the need for transition to deep sea fishing"
- Trawling - to catch fish by pulling a large net behind a boat
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Hasten - to make something happen sooner or more quickly
- Legislative - relating to laws or to the process of creating new laws
- Amendment - a change made to a law or agreement
- Prohibit - to officially stop something from being done, especially by making it illegal
- Destructive - causing severe damage or harm
- Consequence - a result or effect of something
- Fishery - an area of the sea where fish can be caught to be sold
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Dragging - to pull something or someone along with difficulty, for example because they are heavy
- Depletion - reduction
- Curbing - controlling
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Consternation - a shocked or worried feeling, often caused when something unexpected happens
- Draconian - extremely strict and severe
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- Gain ground - to become more successful, popular, or accepted
- Irremediable - impossible to improve or correct
- Deter - to make someone decide not to do something
- Expedite - to make something happen quickly or easily
- Vessel - a large boat or ship
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Incursion - a situation in which someone or something enters an area where they do not belong
- Phase-out - to gradually stop using something
- Envisage - to have something as a plan or an intention
- Flashpoint - a situation in which serious problems are likely to develop
- Escalation - the process of becoming greater or more serious
- Disrupt - to interrupt something and prevent it from continuing by creating a problem
- Marine - relating to the sea and creatures that live in it
- Conservation - the management of land and water in ways that prevent it from being damaged or destroyed
- Livelihood - something such as your work that provides the money that you need to live
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
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