English Vocabulary from
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Note : There were no editorials in THE HINDU on 17th September 2017 (Sunday)
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Time for caution - on India's current account deficit"
- Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
- 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
- Balance sheet - a written statement showing the value of a company at a particular time
- Significantly - by a large amount, or in a way that is easily noticeable
- Infamous - well known for something bad
- Taper - to gradually reduce the amount of new money which is supplied by a central bank in order to aid economic recovery
- Tantrum - an occasion when someone suddenly behaves in a very angry and unreasonable way
- Caution - careful thought and lack of hurry in order to try to avoid risks or danger
- Merchandise - goods that people buy and sell
- Surplus - an amount of money or goods that is left because a country or business has more than it needs
- Yield - to make a profit
- Stepping up - to increase something
- Investment - money used in a way that may earn you more money, for example money used for buying property or shares in a company
- Portfolio investments - all the investments that a person or company has made
- Thanks to - used for saying that someone or something is responsible for something that happened
- Forex - foreign exchange
- Appreciate - if something appreciates, its value increases gradually
- Impending - an impending event or situation, especially an unpleasant one, is one that will happen very soon
- Beneficiary - someone who gets an advantage from a situation
- For instance - for example
- Aggressively - very determined to win or be successful
- Tapped into something - to understand and express something
- Volatile - a volatile situation can suddenly change or become more dangerous
- Prolonged - continuing for a long time
- Unfavourable - not positive, or not showing approval
- Unsavoury - involving unpleasant, dishonest, or immoral things that you do not want to think or talk about
- Macroeconomic - relating to the economic system of a whole country or large region
- Unhedged - unanswered
- Volatility - liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse
- Confrontational - behaving in a way that shows you want to have an argument or fight with someone
- Judiciary - the part of government that consists of all the judges and courts in a country
- Standoff - a disagreement or fight in which neither opponent can do anything to win or achieve their aim
- Unanimous - a unanimous decision, vote, agreement etc is one that everyone agrees with and supports
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Amendment - an official judgment made in a court
- Empowered - having the official authority or freedom to do something
- Incompetent - lacking the ability or skills to do something
- Misconduct - seriously bad or dishonest behaviour, especially by someone who has a position of responsibility
- Impeach - to formally accuse a public official of a serious crime relating to their job, especially in the US
- Scrap - to decide not to continue with something such as a plan or an event
- Antithetical - directly opposed or contrasted
- Errant - behaving in a way that is bad or wrong
- In this regard - used for relating something that you have just said to something that you will be saying
- Interprete - to understand an action, situation etc in a particular way
- Affront - something insulting that makes you shocked and angry
- Boycott - to not take part in an event, or to not buy or use something as a protest
- Schadenfreude - a feeling of pleasure that some people have when bad things happen to someone else
- Polarise - to form two very different groups, opinions, or situations that are completely opposite to each other, or to cause this to happen
- Overtone - a quality or feature that is noticeable but not obvious
- Pertain to something - to be directly related to something
- Conscience - the ideas and feelings you have that tell you whether something you are doing is right or wrong
- Dispassionate - able to make fair judgments or decisions that are not influenced by personal feelings
- Prospective - likely to be or become a particular thing
- Undue - not necessary or reasonable
- Attorney general - the most senior lawyer in some countries
- Dispassionately - in an unemotional, rational, and impartial manner
- Legacy - something that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die
- Authoritarian - controlling everything and forcing people to obey strict rules and laws
- Mere - used for emphasizing that something is small or unimportant
- Resolution - the action of solving a problem or dealing with a disagreement in a satisfactory way
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