English Vocabulary from
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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Taper timetable — On quantitative easing in U.S."
Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Taper timetable — On quantitative easing in U.S."
- Taper - to gradually reduce the amount of new money which is supplied by a central bank in order to aid economic recovery
- Quantitative easing - a process of increasing the amount of money in a country’s economy, usually in an attempt to improve the economy and prevent a situation in which the banks are not willing to lend money
- Federal Reserve - the organization that controls the US national bank
- Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
- Liquidity - a situation in which a business has money or property that it can sell in order to pay money that it owes
- Infusion - the addition of something such as money or a particular quality
- Asset - something such as money or property that a person or company owns
- In the wake of - happening after an event or as a result of it
- Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
- Normalisation - the process of bringing or returning something to a normal condition or state
- To someone’s credit - used about things that someone has done or achieved
- Colleague - someone who works in the same organization or department as you
- Walk the talk - to perform actions consistent with one's claims
- Mammoth - extremely large
- Preclude - to prevent something or make it impossible, or prevent someone from doing something
- Tantrum - an occasion when someone suddenly behaves in a very angry and unreasonable way
- Well-calibrated - accurate / carefully measured
- Wind-down - to gradually reduce work before stopping completely
- Optimal - best; most likely to bring success or advantage
- Monetary policy - actions taken by a government to control the amount of money in an economy and how easily available it is, for example by changing the interest rate
- Caveat - a warning to consider something before taking any more action
- Outlook - the likely future situation
- Deteriorate - to become worse
- Sizeable - large
- Undergirde - provide support
- Hurricane - a violent wind that has a circular movement
- Battered - hurt by being repeatedly hit
- Notwithstanding - despite something
- Marginal - very small in amount or effect
- Median - the value that is the middle one in a set of values arranged in order of size
- Elude - if something eludes you, you do not succeed in achieving it / you cannot remember or understand it
- Anticipate - to imagine or expect that something will happen
- Trajectory - the way in which a process or event develops over a period of time
- Inflation - a general, continuous increase in prices
- Reflate - in economics, to increase the amount of money in use in a country's economy
- Vigilant - always being careful to notice things, especially possible danger
- Warding off - to prevent someone or something unpleasant from harming or coming close to you
- Expansionary - used to describe a set of conditions during which something increases in size, number, or importance
- Momentum - the force that keeps an object moving or keeps an event developing after it has started
- Moderate - neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength
- Augur - to be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future
- 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
- Counterpart - a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Freedom from fear — On Tripura journalist murder"
- Perilous - extremely dangerous
- Circumstance - events that change your life, over which you have no control
- Predictably - in a way that can be predicted; as expected
- Blame game - a situation in which people try to blame each other for something bad that has happened
- Brutally - in a violent way
- Indigenous - native / local
- Agitation - an attempt to cause social or political changes by arguing or protesting, or through other activities
- Prohibitory - tending to discourage
- Incriminate - to make someone seem guilty, especially of a crime
- Footage - video, especially one showing an event
- Casualty - a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war
- Polarise - to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups
- Expeditiously - with speed and efficiency
- Crossfire - bullets fired towards you from different directions
- Intimidate - to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do
- Sphere - a subject or area of knowledge, work, etc
- Inhibitory - with the effect or function of inhibiting (stopping or slowing down) a process
- Obvious - easy to see, recognize, or understand
- Swift - happening or moving quickly or within a short time
- Follow-up - a further action connected with something that happened before
- Tragic - very sad, often involving death and suffering
- Tactic - a planned way of doing something
- Coercive - relating to or using force or threats
- Discourse - communication in speech or writing
- Internalise - to accept or absorb an idea, opinion, belief, etc
- Watchful - paying careful attention and ready to deal with problems
- Vigil - a quiet political protest
- Appraisal - the act of examining someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success, or needs
- Incidental - less important than the thing something is connected with or part of
- Abysmal - extremely bad or low in quality
- Be close to the bone - if something you say or write is close to the bone, it is close to the truth in a way that might offend some people
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