English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Slow creep: on petrol and diesel prices"
- Slow creep - to move very slowly, quietly, and carefully, usually in order to avoid being noticed
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Consumer - someone who buys and uses goods and services
- Crept up - to gradually become larger in number or amount
- Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
- For instance - for example
- Cumulatively - in a way that increases in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions
- Ploy - a way of tricking or confusing someone in order to get an advantage or to make them do what you want
- Backlash - a strong, negative, and often angry reaction to something that has happened, especially a political or social change
- Crude oil - oil that is still in its natural state and has not yet been refined for use by chemical processes
- Far from - used for saying that the real situation is the opposite of what you mention
- Barrel - a unit for measuring crude oil
- Retail - relating to the sale of goods directly to the public for their own use
- Deregulation - the process of taking away the rules that control something such as an industry
- Respectively - used for saying that something happens separately to each of the people or things mentioned in the order in which they were mentioned
- Determine - to officially decide something
- Cost-plus - an amount calculated by adding the cost of producing something to a profit or charge that has been agreed
- In line with - similar to someone or something
- Regime - a system of rules that control something
- Excise - a tax that a government charges on services used and goods sold inside its country
- Culprit - someone who is responsible for doing something bad or illegal
- Beneficiary - someone who gets an advantage from a situation
- Substantially - by a large amount or degree
- Distortion - a change that makes something no longer true or accurate
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Shattered dreams: on Trump's crack down on undocumented immigration"
- Shattered - broken into very small pieces / extremely upset
- Crack down - to start dealing with someone or something much more strictly
- Undocumented - not having any documents to prove that you are living or working in a country legally
- Immigration - the process in which people enter a country in order to live there permanently
- Limbo - an uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement
- Deport - to send someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there
- Looming - if something unpleasant or difficult looms, it seems likely to happen soon
- Sizeable - fairly large
- Cohort - a group of people who share a characteristic
- Rescind - to state officially that something such as a law or an agreement has ended and no longer has legal authority
- Accompany - to go with someone to a place
- Migrant - someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work
- Integrated - combining things, people, or ideas of different types in one effective unit, group, or system
- Productively - making or growing things in large quantities
- Upstanding - honest and deserving respect
- Uproot - to leave the place where you live and go to live somewhere else, especially when you do not want to leave, or to make someone do this
- Apparent - easy to see or understand
- Campaign - a series of actions intended to produce political or social change
- Sympathetic - kind to someone who has a problem and willing to understand how they feel
- Pass the buck - to make someone else deal with something that you should take responsibility for
- Beneficiary - someone who gets an advantage from a situation
- Continuance - the process of continuing
- Alien - someone who is not a citizen of the country they are living in
- Minor - someone who has not reached the age at which they are legally an adult
- Piecemeal - made or done in separate stages rather than being planned and done as a whole
- Encapsulate - to express something in a short clear form that gives the most important facts or ideas
- Underpinning - an important basic part of something that allows it to succeed or continue to exist
- Elude - to manage to escape or hide from someone or something
- Comprehensive - including many details or aspects of something
- Bipartisan - involving two political parties with different ideas or policies
- Gaping hole - a gaping hole or space is very large
- A modicum of something - a small amount of something, especially a good quality
- Solace - something that makes you feel better when you are sad or upset
- Mainstream - considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people
- Foster - to help something to develop over a period of time
- Bickering - arguing
- Despise - to hate someone or something and have no respect for them
- Hostile - behaving in a very unfriendly or threatening way towards someone
- Polarisation - division into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs
- Reform - a change that is intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively
- Robust - strong
- Sustainable - capable of continuing for a long time at the same level
- Remedy - a solution to a particular problem
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