English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Sorrowful song: on Assam's flood situation"
- Sorrowful - feeling, expressing, or causing great sadness
- Longer-term - continuing to exist, or have an effect for a long time in the future
- Life-sustaining - serving to continue or support life
- Stirring - causing strong emotions
- Rendition - a particular way of performing a song, poem, piece of music etc
- Grit - courage and determination despite difficulty
- Furious - extremely angry
- Plains - a large flat area of land
- Death toll - the number of people who are killed on a particular occasion
- Put off - to make someone not want to do something, or to make someone not like someone or something
- Stride - a long confident step
- Displace - to force someone to leave their own country and live somewhere else
- Deluge - a lot of things all happening or arriving at the same time, especially if they are hard to deal with
- Vast - extremely large
- Dispersing - if a crowd of people disperses, or if someone disperses it, the people separate and go in different directions
- Dramatic - sudden and surprising or easy to notice
- Abatement - a reduction in something harmful or unpleasant
- Comprehensive - complete and easily achieved
- Disaster - something very bad that happens and causes a lot of damage or kills a lot of people
- Lasting - continuing to exist or have an effect for a long time
- Impact - an effect, or an influence
- Course - the direction in which a river flows
- Tendency - a strong chance that something will happen in a particular way
- Overrun - to be present in a place in such large amounts or numbers that it is dangerous or unpleasant
- Bank - a raised area of land along the side of a river
- Sediment - a layer of a substance that forms at the bottom of a liquid
- River bed - the bottom of a river, where the ground is
- Aberrant - not normal or not what you would usually expect
- Intensive - designed to produce as much food as possible from an area of land
- Massive - very large or heavy
- Basin - a large area of land whose surface water all flows into a particular river or lake
- Precipitation - the process by which a solid substance separates, or is separated from, a liquid it is in
- Aggressive - used to describe a very strong treatment for a serious condition
- Extensively - clearly (involving a lot of details and information)
- Insight - a chance to understand something or learn more about it
- Remote sensing - the collection of information by watching or filming something from space or from a plane
- Vulnerable - weak or easy to hurt
- Remedial - intended to improve or correct something
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Phenomenon - an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist
- Vital - very important, necessary, or essential
- On the ground - in the place being discussed, especially a place where there is a war or another serious situation
- Confine - to keep an activity within particular limits
- Rehabilitation - the process of returning something to a good condition
- Restoration - the process of putting something into its original condition
- 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
- Embankment - a sloping wall of earth or stone beside a road, railway, or river
- Conflict - angry disagreement between people or groups
- Ethnicity - a large group of people who have the same national, racial, or cultural origins, or the state of belonging to such a group
- Vis-à-vis - compared to or relating to someone or something
- Dreadful - very unpleasant
- Sambar - a dark brown woodland deer
- Perished - died, usually because of an illness or something that happens suddenly
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Coach Shastri: a challenging road ahead"
- Credentials - personal qualities, achievements, or experiences that make someone suitable for something
- Foregone conclusion - a result that you can be certain about before it happens
- Strained - not friendly
- Skipper - someone who is in charge of a team (captain)
- Latter - used for referring to the second of two people, things, or groups that have just been mentioned
- Emerged - to become known
- Transition - the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another
- Bitterness - anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly
- Overwhelming - much larger, stronger, more important etc than anything else in a situation
- Influence - the effect that a person or thing has on someone’s decisions, opinions, or behaviour or on the way something happens
- Prevail - to be the strongest influence or element in a situation
- Out of the reckoning - being/not being considered for a job or position
- Administrator - someone whose job is to manage a business, organization, or institution
- Eminent - important, respected, and admired
- Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
- Seemingly - according to what you know or how something appears
- Subsequently - after something else happened
- Stepped in - to become involved in a discussion or argument
- Speculation - ideas or discussion about why something has happened or what might happen
- There is no denying - used for saying that something is clearly true
- Stint - a period of time spent doing something
- Overshadow - to be a negative feature or influence that spoils something
- Doughty - determined, brave, and unwilling ever to stop trying to achieve something
- Excel - to do something extremely well
- Mighty - very large, powerful, or impressive
- Astute - good at judging situations and people quickly and able to use this knowledge for personal benefit
- Heartening - to make someone feel happier and more hopeful
- Consultant - an expert or a professional person whose job is to give help and advice on a particular subject
- Respectively - (of two or more items) with each relating to something previously mentioned, in the same order as first mentioned
- Legend - someone who very many people know about and admire
- Mentor - an experienced person who helps someone who has less experience, especially in their job
- Strategising - to think of a detailed plan for achieving success in situations such as war, politics, business, industry, or sport
- Embark on - to start a new project or activity
- Overseas - happening or existing in a country across the sea from your country
- Immense - extremely large
- Whispering campaign - the intentional damaging of an important person's reputation by saying unpleasant things about them that may not be true
- Unleash - to do or to cause something that has a very powerful or harmful effect
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