English Vocabulary from "The Hindu News Paper" - 29th September 2017

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Hai Friends I'm Kani. Here I'm sharing English Vocabulary from Editorial section of Today's Hindu News Paper dated 29th September 2017. Happy reading :)

Note : Click on the titles to read the Editorials 

Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Hope in Darjeeling — On end of blockade"

• Blockade - an official action that is intended to prevent people or goods from moving from one place to another
• Tripartite - involving three people or organizations
• Breakthrough - a discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work
• Forthwith - immediately
  
• Consolidate - to combine several small things into one large unit
• Truce - an agreement between two people or groups involved in a war, fight, or disagreement to stop it for a period of time
• Address - to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem
• Setback - a problem that delays or that stops progress or makes a situation worse
• Livelihood - something such as your work that provides the money that you need to live
• Agitation - an attempt to cause social or political changes by arguing or protesting, or through other activities
• Appeal - a request for people to do something or to behave in a particular way
• Protester - someone who publicly shows their opposition to something such as a law or policy
• Tentative -  not definite, or not certain
• Turnaround - an important change in a situation that causes it to improve
• Beleaguered - having a lot of problems or criticism to deal with
• Severely - very seriously
• Waning - if a feeling or power wanes, it becomes weaker or less important
• Inclination - a feeling that you want to do something
• Negotiate - to try to reach an agreement by discussing something in a formal way, especially in a business or political situation
• Cash in on - to use an opportunity to make a profit or gain an advantage
• Defunct - not existing or working any more
• Autonomous - independent and has the power to govern itself
• Substantive - large in amount, degree, or strength
• Rebel - someone who tries to remove a government or leader using force
• Ally - someone who is ready to help you, especially against someone else who is causing problems for you
• Statehood -  the status of a place as an independent country
• Faction - a small group within a larger group, consisting of people with different opinions from the rest
• Impasse - a situation in which progress is not possible because none of the people involved are willing to change their opinion or decision
• Outcome -  the final result of a process, meeting, activity etc
• Substantively - in a way that is important, meaningful, or considerable.
• Devolve - to take power or responsibility from a central authority or government and give it to smaller and more local regions
• Agitation - an attempt to cause social or political changes by arguing or protesting, or through other activities
• Grievance - a complaint about being treated in an unfair way
• Revive - to become, or to make something become, active, successful, or popular again
• Put together -  to produce or organize something using many different things
• Maximalist - a person who holds extreme views and is not prepared to compromise
• Agitator - someone who organizes and persuades people to join a protest or political activity
• Ploy - a way of tricking or confusing someone in order to get an advantage or to make them do what you want
• Chauvinist - someone who believes that their own country, race, sex, or group is better than any other
• Stalemate - a situation in which progress is impossible because the people or groups involved cannot agree
• Face-saver - something that you do in order to stop people losing respect for you
• Averse to something - to dislike or not enjoy something
• Empowerment - the official authority or the freedom to do something
• Grievance - a complaint about being treated in an unfair way

Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Tokyo dreams — On Japan snap polls"

• Snap polls - elections that are called earlier than expected
• Gamble - to do something that involves risks but may result in benefits if things happen as you hope they will
• Breeze - to easily complete or win something
• Vindicate - to prove that someone is right
• Grit - determination to succeed, even in very difficult situations
• Tenacity - the determination to continue what you are doing
• Former - used for describing someone or something that had a particular job, title, status etc in the past, but not now
• Unprecedented - never having happened or existed before
• Trouncing - to easily defeat an opponent in a game, competition, election etc
• Nominee - someone who has been officially suggested for a job or a prize
• Accustomed to something - to think/start to think that something is normal or natural because you have experienced it regularly over a period of time
• Thriving - very successful
• Crisis - an urgent, difficult, or dangerous situation
• Penchant - a feeling of liking something very much or a tendency to do something a lot
• Spectacular - extremely impressive
• Exploit - to treat someone unfairly in order to get some benefit for yourself
• Mandate - the authority of an elected government or official to do the things that they promised to do before an election
• Merely - only / just
• Mindful - careful about or conscious of something
• Criticism - comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad
• Abandoning -  to stop something that you are doing or planning to do, especially because it is too difficult to continue
• Plunge - to fall quickly from a high position
• Abdicate - to stop accepting a particular responsibility or obligation that you have
• Preparatory - done as preparation for something else
• Abating - to gradually become less serious or extreme
• Allegation - a statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal even though this has not been proved
• Contend with - to have to deal with problems or difficulties, especially in order to achieve something
• Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group of people to do something bad or illegal, especially in politics
• Scrutiny - careful examination of someone or something
• Intrusive - interrupting a peaceful situation
• Privacy - the freedom to do things without other people watching you or knowing what you are doing
• Pacifist - someone who believes that violence is wrong and refuses to fight in wars
• Reputation - the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is
• Substantial - large in amount or degree
• Conservative - not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society
• Stance - an attitude or view about an issue that you state clearly
• Advocate - to publicly support a particular policy or way of doing things

Read Previous Posts of THE HINDU English Vocabulary from here 

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